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#TECH SUPPORT REMOTE ACCESS SOFTWARE VERIFICATION#
#TECH SUPPORT REMOTE ACCESS SOFTWARE PASSWORD#

I've once had one of them delete one year worth of "useless" data for an entire geographic region before I could shout "stop this!"). Yes, they have the same bad accent like the criminals in your videos, but they're legitimate (not necessarily knowledgeable or helpful, though.

You will reach it through your company's ticketing system. But note that the tech support will be one of your company (or a subsidiary, well-known partner, whatever). Yes, for example in a typical "Enterprise" setting. But in this case we already have a remote control agent installed on the computer and call them to advise of the issue and notify that we need to take control. I have, on multiple occasions, called customers based on alerts raised by our monitoring software. This is not true, strictly speaking, especially for option 3 where your computer is a managed one. There was an opinion that you must initiate the support case.

You have prior trust with an agent, for example, it's your company's IT department or an outsourced contractor that has access already.

In this case, the agent will need to confirm the trust by providing you with the details only a legitimate party will know, like the ticket number, your name, case details etc.

You have logged a ticket and received an expected callback.

This is safe because you know who are you calling. and they ask to connect to your computer. For example, you call Microsoft, Dell, HP etc. The long answer is yes, but you have to ensure that prior trust has been established with the support agent by ensuring one of the points is true: The short answer is “yes, with some caveats”. You could also ensure the remote control tool is turned off / deactivated / uninstalled after the session. With a legitimate tech support you are entitled to question their actions and ask them to explain what they are doing. If you suspect something is wrong, contact someone you trust, instead. If your computer screen says your computer is infected and gives you a number to call or a remote control program to execute, it's a scam. If someone calls you to tell you have problems with your computer and offers help through remote control, it's a scam. If you haven't genuinely initiated the session with a support you have chosen to trust (or otherwise know they should be actively monitoring your systems, as pointed out by don't allow remote control. Just like a phone repair guy may steal your intimate photos while repairing a broken screen. Although they eventually get caught, there's still such possibility.

An individual employee on a legitimate tech support might abuse the position & trust.

They are skilled to act naturally and may seem to help you by solving actual problems and do their malicious actions in the background.

Criminals use the same tools to look more trustworthy.

#TECH SUPPORT REMOTE ACCESS SOFTWARE PASSWORD#

a password giving persistent access to a computer may seem convenient from their perspective, but such a password may leak, leaving their customers compromised.

A legitimate tech support might not be competent enough to use proper tools in a proper way, which may leave the computer more vulnerable to malicious third party actors.

On the other hand, both legitimate and malicious actors may use the same tools:

#TECH SUPPORT REMOTE ACCESS SOFTWARE VERIFICATION#

by avoiding persistent access (periodically changing passwords, verification to allow remote control session), showing dialogs of background actions like file transfers etc. TeamViewer (possibly branded), are designed to be transparent e.g. In order to do that they may ask you to launch a remote control tool, as it's both easier than assisting you on the phone and faster and more cost-effective than bringing the device in.Ĭommercial products available for this, e.g. A key difference is that typically you have initiated the session by asking them to help you.