I use Teamviewer (TV) at my office to manage and control family PCs and my personal homeserver. I'm not an IT professional just a hack.

At my work, a couple days ago our email went down. This happens probably every 2 months. Sometimes we fail to receive/send emails overnight or for the duration of a full work day we can't send or received email. Internet was still working so the server was still issuing IP addresses etc etc.

I should preface this by saying I don't think our IT guy is very on to it, he's a friend of the business owner.

The IT guy, logged into our server remotely and said there were no problems with the server, but there appeared problems with the network which he couldn't fix or diagnose.

Last night he did a server restore from a backup taken the night before the email problem. As a result we lost 24 hours of emails.

Apparently blame is being directed towards my Teamviewer app. I was told that my PC was open to the world prior to the email outage.

Office PCs don't have any direct access to the server. There is a data storage of office files that are locally networked, but not the actually server files (or email files).

I'm fine to not have teamviewer access from my PC if it is an at risk app. I can just do anything from my phone or start bringing in my own laptop to work.

I've advocated that we get independent professional support for over a year, so I am very biased but I just think that this Teamviewer exploit thing is full of BS.

Your thoughts and experience?