So the correct phrase you should use is: "I have an unfounded suspicion that it is illegal." In order for something to be "illegal", it must violate an actual written law that is codified by a nation, state, or municipality. I know of no such law, and neither do you. And they have always been fine.Because you can cite no law that these India-based freelancers are breaking. if they live abroad), and many others off this forum. Now I've said this, I would like to point out that I've actually never heard of a scenario where malware has automatically exploited TeamViewer to gain access to the host system of the person controlling the infected system, it really would be a rare case.Īs long as you don't send any files from the infected machine to your host system (and then run the infected files), you should be fine - many people here especially have used TeamViewer to connect to friends/family members systems to help them clean it (e.g. As we all know, there is functionality within TeamViewer to switch who has control/whose system is being controlled, and therefore this feature could potentially be a target for exploitation to perform the action simultaneously without any alert confirmation being shown - that being said, I only mentioned this because everything can be exploited one way or another (if it's made by humans then it cannot be perfect because none of us are perfect, but only close to perfection), therefore it's not impossible for it to happen. In a very rare situation, maybe 1% out of millions, it is possible that TeamViewer could be exploited with a zero-day vulnerability to allow an attacker to gain access to your system without your consent. In more deep, sophisticated cases, the malware may have compatibility for abuse of TeamViewer/other desktop remote clients, and may automatically send you a file - even in this scenario, you as the user should have to provide user-intervention to accept the file submission, and obviously you would know that you did not send it to your host therefore you would decline the request. you might accidentally send an infected file over to your host system without acknowledging it was really infected and then execute it, resulting in the infection of your system). Yes, you can definitely be infected if you are connected to an infected system via TeamViewer, however in 99.9% of scenarios it would require user-intervention (e.g.
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