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TeamViewer Servers Go Down, Users Believe They Are Hacked (softpedia.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Softpedia: Something is happening with TeamViewers servers at the moment, and all clues point to a massive breach that has led to many users going on Reddit and complaining about having their computers hacked. Some users have reported finding new transactions in their PayPal and bank accounts, while others discovered someone had been poking around their email account. Other lucky users said they barely avoided getting hacked at the last minute, noticing their mouse starting to move across the screen, and hurrying to disconnect their Internet connection. On Twitter, the TeamViewer team wrote that they're only experiencing issues in some parts of their network, but they denied any security breach, at least on their side. In the past months, we've seen malware use TeamViewer many times to infect computers, but most of those cases were because of users who used weak passwords, which is certainly not TeamViewer's fault. It is strange that this time around, just when TeamViewer servers go down, multiple users also flock to social media to complain about getting hacked. This is either one huge strange cosmic coincidence or TeamViewer is really at fault and won't be able to pin the blame on its users. On a semi-related note, PayPal will be suspending their business operations in Turkey after failing to obtain a new license for its service in the country.
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Easier than getting them to join a GoToMeeting, making them a presenter, then having them display their screen?
Having used both, Teamviwer works better IMO.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
I don't think there is an OS today that doesn't have built-in remote support... why would you ever install some shady 3rd party program?
What is the builtin remote support for windows that is actually worth a damn? What about OSX?
Teamviewer is crossplatform (mac, PC, and Linux, ios, and android...); and quite frankly it's, very, very good. It works behind firewalls. It plays well with UAC.
It's pretty inexpensive even for commercial use, and free for personal use. Its not even slightly shady.
There are a few other solutions but most that I've tried are flaky crap by comparison, and the other good ones cost more.
OSX screen sharing works great with other OSX machines. Not as great with Windows, and definitely not when trying to pierce firewalls and use an alternate keyboard layout.
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