Is Hamachi really safe?

crysisman546

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I was just wondering if Hamachi is actually safe. I was going to join a gmod network through Hamachi from someone on my friends list, but i'm not so sure about it. Can anyone access your PC through the client? Even if Hamachi uses it's own IP instead of yours?
 
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Hamachi by itself puts no extra risk on your machine. You pretty much have to look at it as if hamachi is a very long ethernet cable that you plug into another network. It is the network you are plugging into that is your risk and you use standard stuff like firewalls and such to protect yourself.

If you are really worried you run a virtual machine on your machine and run everything from there. You could wipe and reload the virtual image every time you connected if you were the paranoid type.
Hamachi by itself puts no extra risk on your machine. You pretty much have to look at it as if hamachi is a very long ethernet cable that you plug into another network. It is the network you are plugging into that is your risk and you use standard stuff like firewalls and such to protect yourself.

If you are really worried you run a virtual machine on your machine and run everything from there. You could wipe and reload the virtual image every time you connected if you were the paranoid type.
 
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