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Question Remote Control of Friend's PC

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Caveman

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I have a friend that I help in another City a few hours from me who is 86 years old and doesn't know much about computers. I generally go to his house every few weeks and do his Win 10 updates, check for Malware, etc...

There's got to be a better way. What program(s) would you recommend that can allow me to easily log into his PC remotely and see his desktop just like I was there and be able to do anything from print out emails for him on his PC to changing the volume and or running an application while sitting at my PC. Freeware a plus.

Thanks!
 
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Thanks for the feedback! I'll try it out to see how it goes. I'm assuming it won' make my PC more vulnerable to attacks, right? Kinda seems like it would. Call me paranoid, but if someone broke in and stole his PC or hacked him remotely, wouldn't I be carrying a significant risk?

About visiting... Your point is well taken. I will still try to get up there to see him as often as before. It's just when I can't make it to his place, I don't want to leave him high/dry with no alternative.
 
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Teamviewer has been in business many years and is use by many users and enterprises, if there is security risk, you would have known it by now.

Set it up so remote user and you only run it when he needs help (not started with Windows), and a password to connect.

ID will be the same for the machine, but password will change for each connection and he needs to tell you the password over the phone.
 
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Teamviewer is easily the best application in this regard. I was of the mind that these things were illegal in a sense. Nevertheless, if you want to MUTUALLY remote control your friend's PC, there is no other resource than TW!
~Engineer.AI
 
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Engineer.AI said:
lol what I actually meant was that apps like these make it very easy for hackers to do their deed, with the most basic of permissions. I guess they're not ILLEGAL, just ambiguous in my opinion.
~Engineer.AI
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You don't have to keep TV running at all times. Just run it when needed and use one time authorisation.
 
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sdifox said:
What do you mean illegal?
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Teamviewer is what a lot of scammers use to get into your computer (like fake MS tech support). They have to trick you into installing the program and giving them access. There's some videos on youtube of guys turning the tables on the scammers (Jim Browning comes to mind).
 
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dlerious said:
Teamviewer is what a lot of scammers use to get into your computer (like fake MS tech support). They have to trick you into installing the program and giving them access. There's some videos on youtube of guys turning the tables on the scammers (Jim Browning comes to mind).
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That has nothing to do with Teamviewer, that is just scammers being scammers.
 
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