home remote access application
Remote Access Application, GoToMyPC and Pc Anywhere go head to head
GoToMyPC is the
chocolate, chip cookie to Symantec's long-standing layer cake of a remote access
application, Pc Anywhere. While Pc Anywhere's complex user interface and feature
set speak to experienced users and corporate customers with an IT staff, GoToMyPC
`s simplicity and web based remote access application are better fit for new
and home office users.
Pc Anywhere
10 offers new and improved features over its previous version. Among them, a
Packager tool allows for more flexible installs by letting you select which
features and protocols to install, such as modem or TCP\IP, for example. The
remote access application also includes an Optimization Wizard that configures
the systems for different performance needs. In conjunction with Expertcity`s
web servers, GoToMyPC provides users with views of and the ability to control
a system's desktop from a remote location. It also permits file sharing between
computers.
These two remote access applications offer several security features. Both let you lock the keyboard of a PC from a remote location to protect your settings and to prevent someone from working on it and both programs, GoToMyPC and Pc Anywhere, let you encrypt data and passwords.
GoToMyPC lacks Pc Anywhere's extra helping of security features, such as the ability to limit log in attempts, or to restart the remote computer at a sessions end. It doesn't offer. But it provides 128 bit SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) encryption of data streams. The remote access application can bypass firewalls because the host and client computers receive all communications through an outgoing TCP connection that they initiate with each other which probably won't sit well with companies in possession of very sensitive files.