One example is the email that purports to come from a friend who has been mugged in Spain and needs urgent financial help.Īnother is the telephone call that comes out of the blue claiming to be from Microsoft or British Telecom or any other organisation, suggesting that your computer is full of viruses, errors, gremlins, boll weevils, or whatever.
These scams can take many forms and most of us are familiar with many of them. Why would they do this if Teamviewer is legitimate software?Īs everybody knows, there are an awful lot of criminal scumbags out there who have realised that scamming other internet users can be an easy way to earn a dishonest pound. Now, I don’t know if this also affects any other software that works in the same way as Teamviewer ( Logmein, for example) but I wouldn’t be surprised. They have decided that if you (their customer) accept their default settings regarding internet security, then you will not be able to download the Teamviewer software. The software in question is Teamviewer – that allows the user of one computer to see the screen of another computer and control the keyboard and mouse of that computer. TalkTalk rather high-handedly protects their clients from themselves by preventing a perfectly legitimate piece of software from being installed on their computers. They don’t talktalk together and they certainly don’t play together like a team