Completely Remove TeamViewer 10

There’s been some very serious security incidents come to light in recent weeks. One of them is that updated TeamViewer users say their computers were hijacked and bank accounts emptied all while the software company's systems mysteriously fell offline. TeamViewer denies it has been hacked.

For more than a month, users of the remote login service TeamViewer have taken to Internet forums to report their computers have been ransacked by attackers who somehow gained access to their accounts. In many of the cases, the online burglars reportedly drained PayPal or bank accounts. No one outside of TeamViewer knows precisely how many accounts have been hacked, but there's no denying the breaches are widespread.

TeamViewer claims it isn’t a problem with its system, but rather with users’ individual credentials. It’s certainly possible — with the recent LinkedIn security breach, there’s millions of email/password combos in the wild, and people are notorious for re-using logins across different sites and services.

As TeamViewer is a widely spread software, many online criminals attempt to log in with the data gained from compromised accounts (obtained via the aforementioned vulnerable sources), in order to discover whether there is a corresponding TeamViewer account with the same credentials.

Accusations of a site being hacked have serious consequences. Many people are uninstalling TeamViewer and deserting their service.

 

If you have installed TeamViewer and you do not want to keep it on your computer for the moment, you can easily uninstall it via Windows' "Add/Remove Programs" using the following instructions:

 

Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7 & Vista

 

    From the Start Menu, select Control Panel.

    Under Programs click the Uninstall a Program link.

    Select the program you wish to remove and right click then select Uninstall/Change.

    Follow the prompts to finish the uninstallation of the software.

 

Windows XP

 

    From the Start Menu, select Control Panel.

    Click the Add or Remove Programs icon.

    Select the program you wish to remove and click on the "Remove" or "Change/Remove" button.

Follow the prompts to finish the uninstallation of the software.

 

Mac OS X uninstall instructions

 

TeamViewer 9 (or later) for Mac OS X can be completely uninstalled within the TeamViewer settings. To uninstall TeamViewer for Mac OS X, follow these steps:

 

    Open the TeamViewer preferences

    Open the Advanced tab

    Under Uninstall, click the Uninstall button

    TeamViewer is uninstalled

 

Manual uninstallation of TeamViewer requires certain computer skills to accomplish. In addition, there could be leftovers lingering on your computer and they will take up memory and processing power.

If you can’t find TeamViewer from Control Panel or you are not good at such thing, you may need an automatic tool to help you to uninstall it completely and quickly.

Refer to this link to get more details about the methods for removing TeamViewer software.