From what you have revealed about your setup, your pcAnywhere machine is setting there waiting for anyone to connect (or attempt to). That is very bad. With a firewall in place in front of the pcAnywhere PC then you can at least restrict the IP addresses that will be allowed to talk to the pcAnywhere PC. A VPN setup would be even better, but more complicated to set up.
Tom Del Rosso wrote:
When you use VNC from home to office, how important is it to go through a VPN tunnel? I have used PC Anywhere with simple port forwarding, which seemed to be standard practice a few years ago, but I thought maybe more security is advisable today.
VNC isn't encrypted in any way, so you'd be well advised to use VPN for it.
Juergen Nieveler
Taking a moment's reflection, Tom Del Rosso mused: | | When you use VNC from home to office, how important is it to go through a | VPN tunnel? I have used PC Anywhere with simple port forwarding, which | seemed to be standard practice a few years ago, but I thought maybe more | security is advisable today.
If you need encryption, then it's more important. However, no VPN is required. Just use the encryption "MSRC4Plugin.dsm" plugin with UltraVNC RC18 ...
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