TeamViewer 15.82.6 — the first minute without a single click
How we tested: a clean Debian 13 in a disposable container; source — official file https://download.teamviewer.com/download/linux/teamviewer_amd64.deb (teamviewer 15.82.6). Run as a regular user on a virtual screen, 60 seconds, nothing clicked. 18.10.2026. Every network request and every file written was recorded; the code was not decompiled. The container was deleted afterwards.
Program website: http://www.teamviewer.com
Package SHA-256: 7b84954b288ea915dc44e9d0506aeb70c62a16c1b7b919cd185ab11c5f334512
Summary
| What we checked | Result |
|---|---|
| Built-in telemetry, crash reporting, analytics, ad SDKs | Crashpad / Breakpad (crash reports), OpenTelemetry (usage statistics) |
| Network requests in the first minute | not a single network request |
| Known trackers among the servers | none |
| Files written in the first minute | 147 |
| The program ran the whole time | yes — process alive at the end |
What is built in
850 files (386 MB) were checked.
| SDK | Purpose | Found in |
|---|---|---|
| Crashpad / Breakpad | crash reports | opt/teamviewer/tv_bin/TeamViewer_Desktop |
| OpenTelemetry | usage statistics | opt/teamviewer/tv_bin/TeamViewer |
Addresses of known trackers in the program’s files — addresses in code, not requests:
| Tracker | Addresses | Mentions |
|---|---|---|
| Yahoo | csp.yahoo.com, qc.search.yahoo.com, vn.search.yahoo.com, ve.search.yahoo.com | 93 |
chrome.google.com, developers.google.com, clients3.google.com, www.google.com | 44 | |
| Яндекс.Метрика | suggest.yandex.ru, yandex.ru, www.yandex.ru | 5 |
| Microsoft Bing Ads | www.bing.com | 5 |
| Mail.ru | go.mail.ru, suggests.go.mail.ru | 4 |
| Google Static | ssl.gstatic.com, www.gstatic.com | 3 |
| Cloudflare | developers.cloudflare.com, report-uri.cloudflare.com | 2 |
| Google APIs | www.googleapis.com, c.bigcache.googleapis.com | 2 |
| cdnjs | cdnjs.cloudflare.com | 1 |
| Яндекс | storage.ape.yandex.net | 1 |
| Google AdSense | c.googlesyndication.com | 1 |
| YouTube | c.youtube.com | 1 |
Where it connected
Not a single request: no DNS lookup, no connection.
What it wrote to disk
Folders the program wrote files to during the minute:
| Folder | Files |
|---|---|
~/.cache/mesa_shader_cache_db | 102 |
~/.cache/com.teamviewer.TeamViewer | 25 |
~/.cache/fontconfig | 6 |
~/.cache/qtshadercache-x86_64-little_endian-lp64 | 5 |
~/.local/share | 4 |
/var/log | 2 |
/etc/teamviewer | 1 |
~/.config/teamviewer | 1 |
/opt/teamviewer | 1 |
How to read this card
- This is the first minute after launch with no action at all: what the program does on its own. Normal use may involve more requests.
- A “built-in SDK” means the library’s code was found. It does not prove data transfer, and an address in the code is not a request.
- The review was made automatically using a single method. You can check any program yourself here.