[PCTECH] RE: Any users of GOTOMYPC.COM?

["Wills, Mike N. (TC)" <MNWills@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Moving to PCTech 
I have heard that gotomypc.com is a big security hole and maybe even
spyware. I don't recall the exact article I saw, but here is one I found
quickly: http://www.dshield.org/pipermail/list/2002-May/004023.php




-----Original Message-----
From: David Gibbs 

Gerald Kern wrote:
> I've been asked to evaluate this product (gotomypc.com) by a vendor 
> (from which we have purchased one of their products). They suggested 
> having their users (and later our users) use gotomypc.com to make 
> connections to their product. The vendor seems to think this is a 
> viable alternative to VPN. Does anyone know anything regarding this 
> product and the quality of security it supplies? Also, it seems to me 
> to be more costly in the long term when compared to VPN.

I think this discussion would be more appropriate in the PCTECH mailing list
(http://lists.midrange.com/listinfo/pctech).

Thanks!

david