Second, if TeamViewer is installed on your computer through your work, by a tech support company you’ve hired, or by a relative who helps troubleshoot and maintain your computer, we’d encourage you to read over this article (and potentially take advantage of some of the tips) but to also consult with the person in charge of your TeamViewer experience.įinally, we’re using the Windows desktop application for the tutorial, but many (if not most) of the settings we’re changing apply across the other desktop applications for OS X, Linux, and Chrome OS.
You need to balance your needs and workflow against the security changes you make–you wouldn’t want to, for example, turn on the feature that requires a user at the computer to accept the incoming TeamViewer request if you’re using TeamViewer to connect to your own unattended computer. First, not every person needs to turn on every option we suggest. TeamViewer has tons of security options you can toggle on and tweak, however, and it’s really easy to go from a not-secure TeamViewer experience to a very secure TeamViewer experience with only a little tinkering.īefore we proceed, however, there are a few things we’d like you to keep in mind while reading through the tutorial. But leaving TeamViewer in that simple first-run mode (which really should only be used in such a simple state for those one off emergencies) is just asking for trouble. This is useful when you’re trying to help your dad solve his computer woes from across the country: you can have him download a single file, run that file, have him give you the simple numeric computer ID and password, and boom, you’re controlling his computer and solving the crisis. It favors ease of use over difficult-to-navigate security procedures. But for now, since many people have to use TeamViewer for one reason or another, we’ll show you how to do it in the most secure way possible.īy default, TeamViewer isn’t a particularly secure application. If evidence comes to light that TeamViewer experienced a security breach, we’ll certainly update this information. And apart from a few users who had all the right settings, most victims were using an unsecured setup. Right now, we are inclined to reluctantly agree with TeamViewer’s press release: it’s very easy for a TeamViewer user to have their computer compromised if they don’t have all the right settings in order. As of this tutorial, we haven’t seen any evidence that indicates a system-wide security breach at TeamViewer, but something is certainly fishy. Recently, TeamViewer has been in the news because there has been a rash of computers compromised through the remote access tool.
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