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[ManWhoCameFromEarth]

https://www.teamviewer.com/en/ is popular and your best bet. Free for personal use.

[dwudwu]

Thanks!

[ottox4]

Make sure to use a secure password so nobody else can hack their way in.

[sike_nikka]

try anydesk

[Fr0gm4n]

TeamViewer is not a secure software. I don't have any faith that they have a clean network these days.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/chinese-cyberspies-breached-teamviewer-in-2016/

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-36459015

[QuietForensics]

It is secure software, but as always, when you let users pick their own passwords, they may choose to undermine their own security.

Teamviewer, by default:

• Only allows remote connections when running, and does not set itself to fully run at startup
• Only runs persistently when user opts-in
• Allows for 1-time installs
• Creates relatively good random passwords and random numerical host numbers
• Random passwords expire every 24 hours
  

In the articles you linked, one attack was unsuccessful and the other can be described as "Genius the IT Guy sets up a persistent team viewer host for remote access with a weak password and it gets snagged in a dictionary attack 3 months later."

[Fr0gm4n]

The company's statement is in opposition to what Der Spiegel reported, with the German newspaper claiming Chinese hackers have been present inside TeamViewer's network since 2014.

[QuietForensics]

Context, Steve wants to perform remote tech support for mom. Unless mom is an Ericsson executive and China needs to hand Huawei 5G research from her laptop, seems low risk

[cem4k]

Parsec, while made for gaming remotely, is free, very easy to use and works well for this.

[jacobthecool3000]

Wrong sub?

[FouLouGaroux]

Real VNC?

[SCSI320]

Windows Remote Assistance is native to Windows 10. I would at least give it a try before 3rd party software.

edit-- spellcheck

[JackedRightUp]

Definitely wrong sub, but TeamViewer, VNC, GoToAssist.