Re: A FREE, EASIER alternative to Remote Desktop....


"Shenan Stanley" <newshelper@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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You may not have to tinker with the firewall settings - but it may ask you
for permission to get through your firewall during installation or at the
first use.

So yeah - it may be "easier", but it does mess with your firewall.

https://secure.logmein.com/go.asp?page=support_faq#security-02

LogMeIn is compatible with all known firewalls and broadband routers. It's
simple to use and requires no configuration. When you install LogMeIn,
some
personal firewalls will display a message asking your permission for the
LogMeIn.exe and LogMeInsystray.exe program files to communicate over the
Internet. This is a secure part of LogMeIn and must be allowed to function
in order for the service to work.

Notice:
"When you install LogMeIn, some personal firewalls will display a message
asking your permission for the LogMeIn.exe and LogMeInsystray.exe program
files to communicate over the Internet."

Right. For products that block ALL internet communications (like Zone
Alarm) this is true. But, you also have to accept Internet Explorer via
Zone Alarm (and every other internet communicating application) before you
can surf the web without those nasty little popup warnings.

It is the personal firewall asking to change your settings, not Logmein.
Did you mis the "some personal firewalls will display a message asking your
permission" part?

If you use XP's SP2 firewall, there is no change whatsoever.


As for other free products.. UltraVNC and TightVNC come to mind.

UltraVNC has many more plugins and can transfer files.

Yeah - you have to "tinker" with firewall settings - but no more things
are done (although logmein does it for you - blindly) than when LogMeIn
adds itself to the allowed exceptions list. =)

Are being intentionally dishonest?

Had you actually run Logmein on an XP PC with the XP firewall on, you'd see
that it does NOT alter the firewall, nor does it add itself to the exception
list.

Mr. Stanley, you are making yourself out to be a Microsoft zealot. (But, we
probably should have known that by the MS-MVP you so proudly attach to your
sig, shouldn't we?)

How about trying Logmein before you bash it? (Or is there some Microsoft
MVP clause that prevents that type of objective behavior?)

ljh


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