How to access and control a Windows 7 computer from a Mac - long distance?

I bought my parents their very first computer. They are 2000 miles away in another state. Currently I have the computer in my possession to "set-up" everything so it is as seamless as possible when they receive it.
It is an HP with Windows 7. I have a mac. I would like to remotely access their Windows machine to help them when they need it - to be able to control theirs to show them how to do things and to do it for them if need be.
Thank you for your time
Pattie
This is a new thread. If you want to see the original info it is at this link:
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You are only as secure as web browsing to the LogMeIn website is (which appears to use HTTPS). If your login on that site is compromised, they will have a list of your computers that they can attempt to connect to. As long as you don't save the login credentials, they would then also need to know what username and password to use to connect to the computer. Granted, a little social engineering, and they could probably get some good ideas what to try for those, but if you chose to make your computers secure with complex and hard to guess passwords then it should be fine.
I've been using LogMeIn from my Mac to my mom's Windows XP system from July 2009, and to my wife's Thinkpad running Win 7 since Oct 2009. None of the computers involved have had any security issues at all, let alone any caused by LogMeIn. For my wife's PC, it sits behind our NAT Firewall in our LinkSys Router (although I did have it behind a CheckPoint VPN Edge router for a while). My Mom's PC sits behind a Netgear Router providing its NAT Firewall. When my Mac isn't at home, it's generally behind that CheckPoint VPN router at my office now. It all works nicely from behind one router to behind another. The Piece that you install on the PC will log it into the LogMeIN website and that is how it gets through the router to the PC. You login to the website, select the PC to control, then login to that PC.

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