Darkfeather
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ORIGINAL: Danemora ~FRing it~ I'll admit I didn't really know much of anything about this Teamviewer thing until reading this thread. And I am absolutely floored that you'd elect to let someone take over that much control over your computer, OP. Seriously?!?! A quick question to the experts on this. Could whoever has admin access to that computer now do things like access files or obtain identity or financial information? OP, I seriously hope you are just posting this here to stir up a shitstorm because if you are serious about this...wow! What happens when you do this act and then whoever "she" is still won't release your computer? I just have no clue of what else to say other than this honestly is one of the absolute stupidest things to do to oneself. But sadly it doesn't surprise me at all. If this is true, I hope you get your computer control back. And you learned something valuable to carry with you into the future. Teamviewer isn't meant for this purpose, well initially. It is a conference application meant to allow several PCs at different locations, to all sync up and share/use information. You could have a spreadsheet on one PC in Dallas, the images and presentation materials in Guam, and the person compiling the presentation in Los Angeles. With Teamviewer, that person could pick and work with all the information, assembling his presentation as if all 3 computers were one. In order to do that, allow other computers access to information stored, you have to circumvent permissions. Windows, by default, basically isolates your PC. Teamviewer, tweeks these settings, allowing other computers into yours. To be fair, in order to allow complete and total access of your own PC to another, you have to ignore several warnings and knowingly give up a lot of protections. Its not like you can accidentally let someone do this
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