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I use Teamviewer all the time and find it very useful. I need to spend a little time to look at how the connections are made though—I'm not confident that it's

I use Teamviewer all the time and find it very useful. I need to spend a little time to look at how the connections are made though—I'm not confident that it's secure since you have to enter an ID and password that are (I'm assuming) authenticated by a different machine controlled by Teamviewer. I wonder if the connection is sent through their computers (to get around router issues) and therefore susceptible to capturing passwords, etc. or if the connection is handed off to the two machines after the ID / password is handled.

uptown 14y ago
TeamViewer works great - but I share the same concerns. It seems too good to be true, which makes me wonder what I'm sacrificing as a user.
- chime 14y ago
  Nothing really. It's just a typical freemium model. I used it to fix my parents' computers remotely every now and then. Then a few months later I bought TeamViewer Premium for a network I manage. I didn't even try looking into alternatives because TeamViewer worked so well and it was relatively cheap for what it did. Of course there are tons of free alternatives but it is more expensive (in manhours) to go through the process of vetting, getting, and setting them.
- drzaiusapelord 14y ago
  The service itself is an ad for Teamviwer for corporate. The same way join.me is really an ad for Logmein.
AjithAntony 14y ago
There is also a "LAN connect" option which will not depend on teamviewer servers to broker a connection. If your endpoints are directly addressable and don't have any firewall/NAT complications, the workflow is just like a VNC or RDP.