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Home privacy when using work VPN on personal computer

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Mar 15, 20264672 views
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Here is a question from not so computer savvy user. I have installed VPN client from my workplace on my personal home computer and use it to take brief connections to their network. Just recently I started to think, can they access my home folder and copy all the files from there? I have Windows 7 …

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Fix for: Home privacy when using work VPN on personal computer

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If you're not connected to the VPN, they have no more access to your computer than anyone else in the world. If it is on, they have access to whatever shares that you have available on your home network, minus those that are password protected.

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