Remote Desktop / Over-the-internet PC Connection Question
 

Hey all, need some help here.

Long story short:

My cousin's laptop is malware'd out the wazoo and he's clueless with PCs so I want to remote into his computer to clean it up.

He's in St. Louis and I'm in Atlanta so I need a way to get into his PC over the internet.

I'm pretty computer savvy but have never remoted into a PC before. Could anyone explain the steps I'd take?

I was guessing I'd get him to go to whatsmyip... and use that to RDC in; but I wasn't sure if whatsmyip would give his router IP or his actual PC IP. Any help here would be wondrous.

Thanks in advance! :D

easiest way i can think of is go setup a account at logmein.com. have your cousin install and put in your info and it will load on his computer then you can access it. I use logmein on a bunch of friends and families pc to help them when they get viruses and such. Only ever used RDC on my inhome network.

Teamviewer even.... works good

Regards,
Mg

I checked both out. Seems LogMeIn and Teamviewer are kind of a toss-up. Anyone know of any real differences between these? I will be using the free version of anything that I end up using.

Personally never used teamviewer as anything ive ever needed to do other then let me play EQ(wishful thinking i knew going in it wouldnt) logmein could do. Only thing i havent dealt with yet is it only allows 10 Pc's on free account and i'm at my limit. So might try out teamview next time i need to install on a PC or just make a 2nd account on logmein.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/d...enigjmpp?hl=en

It loads in chrome, all you need is chrome and a google account.

lol was about to say something along these lines

def fixed a few issues for ppl using this one, simple and takes <5 mins to set up and make you able to connect

Teamviewer.

Join.me is what I use a lot at work and 100% free.

Holy crap this is awesome, thanks man!

Appreciate all the other recommendations as well.

Looks like it's gonna be Teamviewer or the Google one for me :D