How can I tell if my computer is connected to a “remote desk” . . . [Connected to a Network]?

Nobody does it without the user’s concerns and it’s very dangerous especially if you don’t know the person well. If he can remotely connect to your computer, theoretically he also can do anything to your computer. So it’s up to you to decide whether you can trust the person or not

The guy may not be a hacker, but you would like to keep the total control of your computer without anyone monitoring you all the time. You can use your administrator account on your computer, change the password, then remove all of the other accounts that setup by the one who sell you! P.S. There is no reason the guys selling you the computer keep the control and remote desktop on your computer. Get rid of them as soon as possible.

Well, I can’t see why he would have any reason to hack his own old computer, but it does sound a bit dodgy…most likely, he’s a computer fanatic, and they like to sound smart and look cleverer than you when it comes to computers

Anyway, unless you’re connected to the internet yourself, he can’t get to you anyway, unless he lives next door to you.

If you’re worried, either ask the guy to take you off his remote destop. If he refuses, he’s actually violating your rights. Alternatively, go to Start > Connect To > Show All Connections. Check your internet connection is firewalled, then right click your connection, choose Properties, go to Advanced then configure the firewall settings so that it is on, and it doesn’t allow exceptions.

Hope this helps

Tom.

I work with an IT support group. And we use Remote Desktop. Although i’m not very technical in this field. Remote desktop is normally used, well i’ll give you an example. We can sit in our offices and “remote desktop” into a computer a couple buildings away and fix their computer. We do this by going through the network, your computer has a “calling card” known as an IP address. And that is what the person will use to locate your computer. Once we’re in we’re given complete control of it, only on the computer adminstrator profile though and our own. I work at a school district. And we have a lot of student profiles and staff profiles. If the person does remote in, it would hopefully only be for low maintenance, computer usage, and processing rates.

But if your still worried about it. One thing that bugs us tech people when we try to remote in is that 90times out of ten. They’ll have their computers off or network cable is unplugged. So that’s one flaw with remoting in. And if you are on your computer and you notice your computer screen kind of jump or flicker almost. They’ve remoted in.