TA20852 Help! My ex has remote access set up on my Mac.

So I love my iMac. But my soon to be ex husband set it up. I've found that he has had remote access to all my computers. My Mac and my pc's. On the pc's I've been able to shut everything down. But on the Mac... I just don't know enough about them to do it. I went into system preferences and sharing and unchecked everything. I also found some sort of software on the computer and deleted it. But there are areas that I'm trying to access that I can't because it keeps asking me for a "keychain login". I don't really want to loose the software that is loaded or the files that are on this computer. He has taken any discs or activation codes with him. He also took the removable hard drive with EVERYTHING on it. SO... what do I do? How do I reset this Keychain login and make sure he can't access anything else?
The router and modem are both new and I set the passwords when they were installed.

Run Little Snitch. It will tell you about each application that access the internet. And lets you control wich one that do. The trial period will probably be enough to figure out what is going on.
http://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html
Have your lawyer speak with you soon to be...
There are a lot of places to start app. First look in login items
the blue Apple icon > system preferences > accounts
see if he started up anything.

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It would be tremendously helpful to be able to access, set restrictions, and make changes from the parents device, to all devices under the same iTunes account, so that I could make changes to my kids devices without physical access.
I understand that I can set up a different Apple ID for the kids devices, or take physical control of the device and make the changes myself. However, my teenage son is technically savvy enough to have a job in Silicon Valley, as are most young people these days. However, in order to access his devices the current way, I first have to bypass the four digit pass code. This starts a fight of why I need in the device and continues to escalate. The argument that I am the parent will gain access but the fight is simply exhausting, and quite frankly shouldn't have to happen at all. He is not yet an adult, he did not pay for his iPad or iPhone and I, as a parent, should have not only have the right to change options at will, and from anywhere, but look at history or current activity when I feel like it.
I currently have the settings where app and in-app purchases require my password to be put in, and he must come to me to type it in, but I need more control and would like, and should be able to access any of our six devices and make individual changes simply by logging in to my account, with my password.
If I can see all my devices on the "Lost My iPhone" app, this technology should be easy to make happen.
C'mon parents! I have a pretty good kid, given all things that they can get into, but I am not stupid. For everything I see has been done, there is much more I haven't seen. I want my children to be kept safe and be able to know what they are looking at or listening to. We parents are the only ones who know our beliefs and what our kids can handle and when.
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http://www.unwireddevicelink.com/features/
https://meraki.cisco.com/products/systems-manager
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What is the best way to remotely access my sister in laws Mac who lives in another city to help her with her computer problems?

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2. the security of a VPN connection.
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I've been down this road and settled on a much simpler solution...
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I tried using VPNs for a while, and then instead settled with tunneling specific connections over ssh... it is more secure and elegant, there is no server setup, however it is not seemless.. you have to set up the connections/ports individually each time, this can get messy if you want access to lots of things at once.
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I am wanting to use my Mac to remotely log into my home pc (windows) I use to us windows remote access from my old laptop using a dyndns. But now having a mac I don't know how to access it. I tried the Microsoft remote access app for mac but couldn't get it to work? I don't understand the settings this required and couldn't find instructions online for setting it up
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Hello morph1977. Welcome to the Apple Discussions!
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Thanks.
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