<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Thanks Antonio ... </span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>All,</span></div><div><span>These for my benefit. </span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>As I chatted to Antonio on Saturday about recent experiences, I was saying that my wife's bank account has been hacked twice (fully refunded, thankfully) on different M$ machines. Both OSs are up to date and running M$ Security Essentials as well as Firefox & Rapport and we don't use bookmarks. Since the last time, I've toyed with the idea of using a Live CD to create a one-shot session whenever we need to access the bank but have compromised and set up a new standard user that we use for just accessing bank using Firefox/IE8 plus Rapport. Plus I'll look at the links in Antonio's
em. </span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>I'm running various flavours of Ubuntu but meeting a degree of resistance and inertia to a full deployment. I don't think my bank credentials were hacked but off course all accounts were affected.</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>Must also say that if I was the bank I think I'd like to chat to me about what I was doing and what I was using to try and find out if the risk is customer or bank-side especially as we've had two incidents. But alas all we've had is a pretty slim pamphlet. So disappointed there.</span></div><div><br></div><div>BTW, really enjoyed Saturday. Maybe sometimes, the best agenda is no agenda.</div><div><br></div><div>P</div><div><br></div><div>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ </div><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; "><div style="font-size: 12pt;
font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "><br>Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 13:49:56 +0000 (GMT)<br>From: Antonio Mendoza Mendoza <<a ymailto="mailto:agmendozam@yahoo.es" href="mailto:agmendozam@yahoo.es">agmendozam@yahoo.es</a>><br>Subject: Re: [Klug-general] Technical Meeting Saturday 26th November<br>To: Kent Linux User Group - General Topics <<a ymailto="mailto:kent@mailman.lug.org.uk" href="mailto:kent@mailman.lug.org.uk">kent@mailman.lug.org.uk</a>><br>Message-ID:<br> <<a ymailto="mailto:1322488196.98190.YahooMailNeo@web29004.mail.ird.yahoo.com" href="mailto:1322488196.98190.YahooMailNeo@web29004.mail.ird.yahoo.com">1322488196.98190.YahooMailNeo@web29004.mail.ird.yahoo.com</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"<br><br>About Safer browsing.<br>There is a Mozilla Firefox extension quite interesting, "HTTPS everywhere"<br><a href="https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere"
target="_blank">https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere</a><br><br>Also, for those who cannot/do-not-want-to get rid of Windows machines I'd recommend the following software:<br>- Spybot Search And Destroy(*), from?<br>- Malwarebytes, from?<a href="http://download.cnet.com/3001-8022_4-10804572.html?spi=2419d5c73427bcede13789a2b38aae3b&part=dl-10804572" target="_blank">http://download.cnet.com/3001-8022_4-10804572.html?spi=2419d5c73427bcede13789a2b38aae3b&part=dl-10804572</a><br>- ComboFix (when you already have a malware problem or suspect one), from?<a href="http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/anti-virus/combofix" target="_blank">http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/anti-virus/combofix</a><br><br>(*) I recommend to UNTICK the "teatime" tool when installing Spybot, because in some PCs it becomes a real PINT. Remember to close your browsers when running it for best results. And first of all, update the database and immunize your
system.<br><br>And not necessary but helpfull CCleaner, from?<a href="http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/download/standard" target="_blank">http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/download/standard</a><br>With CCleaner you can get rid of all the temporary files and cookies and traces of your browsing, and it makes a deeper cleanse of Windows history and the such.?<br><br>This post wouldn't be written in a Open Free World, without Windows and Gates :):)<br><br>Regards<br>Antonio<br><br><br> </div> </div> </div></body></html>