Comments on: Remotely control your PC using a Gmail account

By: Charlie

Charlie — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 18:17:05 +0000

I’m really excited for this. Some people talk about VNC, but you can’t use VNC to screw around on your home computer when you’re at work.

By: kometbomb

kometbomb — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 09:03:07 +0000

This sounds extremely dangerous. It would be easy to use zero-day exploits in. Or, it could be merely extremely annoying if someone indeed sends the shutdown message to a zillion random addresses (most people NEVER change default settings – a fact).

Also, it sounds inconvenient: you have to manually delete the mails. Last time I checked, computers were invented to do such boring things for people. GRC should download the message, execute the job and delete the message.

Thirdly, why is it limited to Gmail? I didn’t check the program but I can’t see it anywhere that GRC would post messages back to the user – it would be nice to read the status of the jobs in Gmail.

I can always appreciate hacks like this and the general idea is indeed very nice (Gmail is accessible everywhere, remote desktops are not) but this needs some serious work.

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 13:03:23 +0000

Awesome ! I didin’t knew about this remote alternative. Thanks !

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By: Kiltak

Kiltak — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 11:28:51 +0000

Mike: This is not from google btw. if you REALLY want to be on a safe side, use one with an empty, useless gmail address..

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 11:02:45 +0000

Ooh. am going to try this when I get home – means I can do far more than before – I’m always a little reticent about using remote PC software but I guess one from google should be ok….

By: Jalaj

Jalaj — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 10:09:50 +0000

Want to surprise someone? just set up this software on his system and link it to a gmail account with a shutdown email. The moment he goes online computer goes off!!

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 21:37:00 +0000

Sorry, -{from:whatever@example.com}

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 19:42:44 +0000

Just create a filter like -{control@example.com} to delete emails not from your control account.

By: Geldhart

Geldhart — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 15:55:21 +0000

What it would need is the ability to only accept commands from certain email addresses.

By: Alan Peery

Alan Peery — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 15:44:20 +0000

GRC is a dangerous app, as described here. Imagine the following [open] commands

[open]http://iamapervert.org[/open]
[open]http://www.policemancomevisit.org[/org]

or
[open]http://access_evil_website_with_browser_exploits.com[/open]

Lest you think you’re OK because no one knows that you have GRC installed:
1) download list of email addresses — easily available
2) select all Google addresses from list
3) send an email like the above to 5 million addresses. Bingo, you’ve just spiked lots of people…

Alan