Comments on: Go to my PC

By: Phill

Phill — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 21:44:37 +0000

Heh – shame he didn’t talk you before buying it, eh?

By: Aaron Jacobs

Aaron Jacobs — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 21:26:40 +0000

I recently had to tell my boss that he’d wasted his money on this after he saw the recent tv ads. He only has dial up at home and our firewall/proxy won’t allow this traffic; even if it did I wouldn’t allow this bandwidth hog on my network.

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:02:43 +0000

I agree those adverts are annoying – we had them on the local radio here for a while but then they stopped playing them – there are good proper secure ways of doing what they offer but they don’t get to advertise by radio it is a cashin unfortunatly – just glad we had noone calling in asking about it…

By: Phill

Phill — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:04:29 +0000

I think the importance of security on the net is more crucial here than convenience!

Well, you would need to educate people on internet security if you were going to teach them about remote access. I think the two would go hand in hand.

But yes, I agree that most people “don’t have time”, which is a sad situation because they’re being taken advantage of. Particularly in this case where setting up a remote connection is neither expensive nor difficult.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:39:06 +0000

Absolutely. I’ve been using VNC for several years now, both on PC and Mac (both ways), and it has indeed made my life a lot easier in some cases. Having access to my own programs when I was at uni made certain things much easier for me, and with a VNC client small enough to fit on a floppy disk (remember those?) it was easy to do on any PC around. And it isn’t hard to set up, really, just takes a little initiative and a little reading of forums or a good tutorial so you can get your network set up appropriately.

I can see where you’re going with the whole ‘educate the nation’ thing, Phill, but many people just don’t have the time or inclination to know about stuff they don’t need to know about. To be honest, I would prefer them NOT to use GoToMyPc or VNC in most cases, because of the potential risks it opens up. Verification is done by a username and password, so if someone else gets hold of that they can easily log into your computer while you’re away. And it means leaving the computer on all the time, connected to the internet, so a good firewall and anti-virus setup is essential. I think the importance of security on the net is more crucial here than convenience!