Wayk Now

NOTE: "Effective immediately, Wayk Bastion is no longer sold and will receive no new features. Existing customers should begin searching for a replacement product and contact our sales department for a refund. Support will continue until the end of 2021, after which no updates will be provided. The Wayk Bastion cloud service will be temporarily shut down in September, and then permanently shut down in October, one year after the initial deprecation announcement."

Remote control software allows you to connect to one computer using another, mostly to offer troubleshooting assistance when needed. While there are a few known names in this section, new applications are always welcomed, and Wayk Now is both one of the simplest to use and one of the best.

No matter if you want to take control of a remote PC or have someone else connect to yours, Wayk Now must be deployed on both machines.  The ID of each computer is its IP address, and a password is generated for each to authorize remote access.

Initiating a new remote connection requires you to enter the ID of the target PC, as transmitted by the owner of the remote machine. As soon as you hit the "Connect" button, you are prompted to enter the password. To avoid having to go through all these steps again in the future, you can use the PFP (stands for "prompt for permission") authentication method and assign a friendly name to the remote PC.

Once the connection is established, you can use the remote computer as if you were standing in front of it, provided its user has granted you the right to do so. You can view the remote desktop, interact with it, initiate file transfers, and execute commands as long as you are allowed to do so by the remote user. Any of these controls can be disabled or set to ask for confirmation.

For security purposes, when connecting to a remote machine for the first time, a security certificate is generated for the client and all the communications are encrypted using TLS 1.2. And speaking abut security, the password is automatically generated using the dedicated tool.

Wayk Now provides a full-featured remote control software with string encryption capabilities and support for file transfers. It allows clipboard sharing, which is one of its most interesting features.

During our tests, Wayk Now behaved perfectly, allowing the remote access without administrative privileges and without leaving large footprints on the PC.