PC remote access

[Yousuf Khan]

The owners of Ammyy Admin are warning customers to be on the lookout for
phone calls from alleged tech support companies that want to rely on
their software to defraud users.

On numerous occasions we noticed that tech support scams involve a
remote desktop software called Ammyy Admin. The cybercriminals have been
using it to gain access to their victims’ computers.

As we mentioned previously, Ammyy Admin is a perfectly legitimate
software, but crooks have started utilizing it to complete their
malicious missions.

“Unfortunately, there are some cases of malicious use of our software
noticed. Please be attentive and never grant access to people you don't
know personally or whom you don't trust,” the warning issued by the
company reads.

It continues, “If you receive a phone call claiming to be from
'Microsoft' or someone claiming to work on their behalf, telling you
that you have a virus on your computer or some errors which they will
help you to fix via Ammyy Admin, it is definitely a scam.

Well, that's a testimony to it being good software, if even the crooks
are relying on it.

Yousuf Khan

 

[Yousuf Khan]

Seems to me they had some kind of problem awhile ago now with some
source code being stolen hence bad folks getting an insight into how to
break into it but doesn't PC Anywhere (Norton) do what you want.

I used to run it in house here so I didn't have to bother going into
another room to use a pc. Gave me a window which was the entire 2nd pc's
screen, full mouse and keyboard control etc. I'm sure it also works
across the internet, e.g. it uses IP addresses. there's some type of
security etc. etc.

Well, I've not used PC Anywhere, but it sounds pretty much like
Microsoft's Remote Desktop Connection, or any number of VNC tools. RDC
and VNC are good enough for using within a local network where there are
no intervening firewalls between computers, but I needed something that
could bypass my firewall easily. Only specialized tools like this can
bypass a firewall.

BTW, I've now been using TeamViewer for a week now and I've been remote
controlling my PC at home more than 12,000 km (7500 miles) away! I even
applied a bunch of Windows 7 patches today, and rebooted the computer
and it came back again! Awesome.

Yousuf Khan

 

[Drew]

Well, I've not used PC Anywhere, but it sounds pretty much like
Microsoft's Remote Desktop Connection, or any number of VNC tools. RDC
and VNC are good enough for using within a local network where there are
no intervening firewalls between computers, but I needed something that
could bypass my firewall easily. Only specialized tools like this can
bypass a firewall.

BTW, I've now been using TeamViewer for a week now and I've been remote
controlling my PC at home more than 12,000 km (7500 miles) away! I even
applied a bunch of Windows 7 patches today, and rebooted the computer
and it came back again! Awesome.

Yousuf Khan

I have been a avid user of Teamviewer for a long long time. I use it to
maintain (fix) my family's computers. I am in Nevada and 2 are in
different cities in Ontario Canada and the other 2 are in different
parts of Wisconsin. The program has never let me down. Glad it is doing
the same for you!

 

[J. P. Gilliver (John)]

On 5/14/2013 7:28 PM, Yousuf Khan wrote: []

BTW, I've now been using TeamViewer for a week now and I've been remote
controlling my PC at home more than 12,000 km (7500 miles) away! I even
applied a bunch of Windows 7 patches today, and rebooted the computer
and it came back again! Awesome.

Yousuf Khan

I have been a avid user of Teamviewer for a long long time. I use it to
maintain (fix) my family's computers. I am in Nevada and 2 are in
different cities in Ontario Canada and the other 2 are in different
parts of Wisconsin. The program has never let me down. Glad it is doing
the same for you!

I third that; I use it (from this XP netbook) to fix problems on: my
blind friend's XP machine; another friend's Vista one; and another
friend's 7 one. All work well (and sometimes alongside Skype, so we can
chat about what we're doing - though for some reason Skype doesn't work
too well on this machine. But TeamViewer remains rock solid). I haven't
implemented it as start-on-reboot, so they have to start it and tell me
the number, but that's OK as they're on the 'phone to me anyway to tell
me there's a problem.
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[Drew]

On 5/14/2013 7:28 PM, Yousuf Khan wrote: []

BTW, I've now been using TeamViewer for a week now and I've been remote
controlling my PC at home more than 12,000 km (7500 miles) away! I even
applied a bunch of Windows 7 patches today, and rebooted the computer
and it came back again! Awesome.

Yousuf Khan

I have been a avid user of Teamviewer for a long long time. I use it
to maintain (fix) my family's computers. I am in Nevada and 2 are in
different cities in Ontario Canada and the other 2 are in different
parts of Wisconsin. The program has never let me down. Glad it is
doing the same for you!

I third that; I use it (from this XP netbook) to fix problems on: my
blind friend's XP machine; another friend's Vista one; and another
friend's 7 one. All work well (and sometimes alongside Skype, so we can
chat about what we're doing - though for some reason Skype doesn't work
too well on this machine. But TeamViewer remains rock solid). I haven't
implemented it as start-on-reboot, so they have to start it and tell me
the number, but that's OK as they're on the 'phone to me anyway to tell
me there's a problem.

J.P. do you not find that the chat feature in Teamviewer works for you ?

 

[J. P. Gilliver (John)]

On 5/14/2013 11:29 PM, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote: []

I third that; I use it (from this XP netbook) to fix problems on: my
blind friend's XP machine; another friend's Vista one; and another
friend's 7 one. All work well (and sometimes alongside Skype, so we can
chat about what we're doing - though for some reason Skype doesn't work
too well on this machine. But TeamViewer remains rock solid). I haven't
implemented it as start-on-reboot, so they have to start it and tell me
the number, but that's OK as they're on the 'phone to me anyway to tell
me there's a problem.

J.P. do you not find that the chat feature in Teamviewer works for you ?

I will admit I didn't know there was such a thing, but in any case,
assuming it's a text-based thing, one of my helpees is blind, and I
think it would be confusing (the speech-synthesis would get jumbled with
that from other things that were going on, I think). But I'll look into
it!