Question about GoToMyPc services

["Ms. Judith Taylor" <jtaylor () acvna org>]

Greetings all,

I finally have a question that warrants more input than I can find on my 
own. Being a long-time lurker on this list, I have been slowly learning 
more about security and since having switched to a Linksys Broadband 
Firewall Router, looking at the logs for both incoming and outgoing traffic.

One of the machines here has GoToMyPc on it (at the request of the 
software vendor - it's a dedicated machine). Of late I've been noticing 
quite a bit of outgoing traffic from its IP address. The traffic is all 
TCP, but what I'm curious about is that it seems to be sending 
requests/pings/something by going through all its own ports.

example from logviewer:
10.xxx.xxx.xxx:1740  66.151.158.177:8200
10.xxx.xxx.xxx:1741  66.151.158.177:8200
10.xxx.xxx.xxx:1742  66.151.158.177:8200
10.xxx.xxx.xxx:1748  66.151.158.177:8200
10.xxx.xxx.xxx:1749  66.151.158.177:8200
10.xxx.xxx.xxx:1752  66.151.158.177:8200
10.xxx.xxx.xxx:1759  216.115.217.254:8200

My first thought is that it is simply "checking in" with the GoToMyPc 
service to see if someone is trying to connect, but I haven't been able 
to suss this out on their website to ascertain if this is truly the case 
and not something to worry about. Is what I'm seeing simply the normal 
behavior of the program/service?

Can anyone make any recommendations for a more secure method of remote 
access for a Win2K Pro machine?

Thanks.
Judith