remote access

[Keith Robinson]

what is the simplest newbie-friendly way to access my linux box at
home from a win98 machine at work. can anyone recommend a starting
place or documentation? I am assuming I want to telnet but can't
find where to start. 

currently I have all inet daemons turned off. I want to be set up
so I can do work on my linux machine remotely but be sure others can
not.  many thanks,

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Keith