vulnerable people , pretending to beAttack.Phishingfrom their ISP or Microsoft technical support , and offering to clean-up non-existant virus infections . If you make the mistake of grantingAttack.Phishingone of these criminals remote access to your computer to “ clean it up ” you may find that they end up stealing your files , planting malicious code , and even demanding you pay a fee for their bogus service . British ISP TalkTalk has decided that the problem of scammers defraudingAttack.Phishingits customers has become so big that they have blocked usage of TeamViewer from its network . That ’ s bad news if you ’ re a scammer , but it ’ s even worse news if you happen to be a TalkTalk customer who routinely uses TeamViewer to help out friends and family diagnose and fix computer problems . Unfortunately it took TalkTalk a while to admit that they had blocked the software , leaving many customers posting messages on its forum in the dark as they spent hours trying to get to the bottom of why the software they relied upon was no longer working . Eventually TalkTalk ‘ fessed up that it was responsible for the block .