#Block team viewer software
Instead of doing the intelligent thing of communicating with their customer base, informing them that they do not use this tool and to make sure they know and trust anyone who does wish to use this tool on their computer and telling their customers that there is a minority who may telephone them as a result of last years security breach claiming to be from TalkTalk and asking to gain control of their computer using this software or other similar remote access titles for nefarious means. However because of a security issue that was the fault of TalkTalk, they have now blocked a tool used by many legitimately because a minority group have chosen to use it to do damage to a number of their customers PC's and mobile devices. It was tools such as these that allowed me to continue supporting my customers, fixing their problems and performing ongoing maintenance.
Had it not been for remote access tools such as Teamviewer and LogMeIn I would have had to stop trading 8 years ago following a motorcycle accident which left me in hospital for 3 1/2 months and a very long recuperation period. Our customers range from large businesses to home users with one desktop PC, laptop or tablet. Typical ISP response to a security issue - block it and screw the rest of ya!Īs an IT engineer of some 17 years in the industry I've been using Teamviewer as a remote access tool since LogMeIn increased their costs considerably some 3 years ago. In the end, you are dammed if you do go in the list, and you can be dammed if you do not go on to the list. The list is probably very effective locally, but not for any foreign countries where there is no way or possibility of prosecuting the Scammers in those countries. There is advertising and promotions going on to encourage people to participate in the list to avoid Scam calls and annoying marketing calls.
They use the lists as a call list rather than a Do Not Call list. The malicious Scammers and etc., buy or obtain these lists. These phone numbers on the list are supposed to also be blocked in their system for solicited phone calls. The idea is marketing companies buy a copy of this list and run a software that is supposed to disable their systems from being able to dial the phone numbers on the list. I believe the UK and Australia are part of the same list system. For example both the US and Canada have a shared list and agreement for this.
Many people have registered on the Do Not Call list in their country. Re: Re : I wonder where the scammers got hold of their client telephone numbers from. My Draytek broadband router (Delight version) has loads of network-application/cloud blocking switches in it, and I have blocked plenty, including TeamViewer Talk Talk and other ISPs may need to consider something like this too in the user account, because there are plenty of other network applications which can be abused and I'm not sure that their customer broadband routers are good enough to do this. Talk Talk should have at least made this block controllable via a switch/optional-domain-white-list in the user account, priority emailed all customers that it will be blocked by default, like for the adult material block, then set the switch to block, that way most customers would be automatically protected, but those who really do need it can could login and set the switch to unblocked. Outsourcing to less civilised countries like Indian is probably a major reason why this information leaks other businesses have also discovered this the hard way! I've seen poorer work from India and that may compromise security too. Re : I wonder where the scammers got hold of their client telephone numbers from.
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