However, as with any remote access tool it can be misused if you are happy to give your details out to any stranger who phones to ask for it. It is not Spying, snooping, keylogging or any other sort of 'Big Brother' snooping software. TeamViewer is safe, established and trusted software.
That has to be the No.1 rule in modern life.Īlso, you can set your own secure password within Team Viewer and you can also choose different types of authentication, including Windows authentication - namely, you need the username and password of a local user of your computer, as well as your Partner ID. There are steps you can take to minimise this risk.įirstly and most importantly, don't ever follow instructions from a cold caller. It allows you to see the Partner ID of the person connecting and allows you to immediately disconnect that session. When the person connecting to you has all of this and makes the connection, a dialogue box appears on your screen informing you of this. Thirdly, the party connecting to you needs your password. Secondly, the party connecting to you needs your unique 'ID' (aka Partner ID). In either case you'll have a taskbar / statusbar icon showing it is running. Your PC, being the one that will be connected to needs it actively running, or running as a service. I have posted this thread in case anyone doing a Google search for phone, virus and teamviewer will discover the truth about the scam.įirstly, both parties need the TeamViewer software. Their software is merely being used by the scammers to take control of your computers. Note that the Ammyy and Teamviewer organisations and software are not involved in the scam. So be warned, if *anyone* phones you claiming to be from Microsoft or any other software security company and they want you to download software, they are trying to scam you. Since there is now a notice on the Ammyy website warning of the scam, I understand that the scammers are now getting people to go to for the same purpose.
In actual fact they use the software to take control of your PC in order to get your passwords/credit card details in order to scam you.
Our members have discussed the phone virus scam here on AVForums where scammers phone people telling them have PC virus problems which can be fixed by visiting in order to download software which they then use to remove the viruses.
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