Reply to post: But... TeamViewer doesn't *require* an account, does it?

TeamViewer denies hack after PCs hijacked, PayPal accounts drained

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But... TeamViewer doesn't *require* an account, does it?

I use TeamViewer to support a small group of friends, neighbours, and remote sites.

The group is sufficiently small that I don't need any of the "value added" features of a TeamViewer account, so I don't have a TeamViewer account. The more accounts I don't have, the safer I am (!).

Am I the only person using it this way?

Am I safe from this alleged exploit?

Or is the alleged exploit elsewhere in the TeamViewer implementation, and the scattering of the words "TeamViewer account" is an unhelpful (and downright misleading) distraction?

Your curious servant,

TV21

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