[AT] OT - remote computer access

[Mike]

I am using TeamViewer right now and it is performing perfectly Thanks, 
Mike M


On 2/17/2014 9:01 AM, Spencer Yost wrote:
> I'll second TeamViewer.  As Steve mentioned, it's free and it's full featured.
>
> If you are in a position to upgrade your fathers machine/OS; then that will kill two birds:   Installation will wipe out the virus and malware and then you can use the native windows Remote Desktop available in windows vista/7/8.  But I realize that is a big "if".
>
> Spencer
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> Sent from my iPhone
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>> On Feb 17, 2014, at 3:48, "Steve W." <swilliams268 at frontier.com> wrote:
>>
>> Mike wrote:
>>> Hi guys, Even though I am far from an expert, I am my 74 year old
>>> fathers IT guy. I have told him over and over not to open emails that
>>> are not from someone he knows, but he didn't listen to that advice on
>>> Friday. He opened one that said, "Notice to appear in Court" which
>>> purportedly told him to gather all his information and appear at a
>>> certain time. When he opened it all kinds of things popped up, and the
>>> rest is history. Now it's my job to fix it, only problem is I'm two
>>> hours away. Is there a way for me to access his computer (XP) from mine
>>> (Win 7)? I do have an XP machine at my disposal if that is necessary.
>>> Trying to do it over the phone is very slow and exasperating for him and
>>> for me. Thanks for any advice.
>>>
>>> Mike M
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>> Team Viewer  - http://www.teamviewer.com/en/index.aspx
>>
>> Works real easy and across platforms so you can support just about any
>> machine from any machine.
>> It's free for personal use. Works well for what you want.
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Steve W.
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