[Klug-general] Technical Meeting Saturday 26th November (Antonio Mendoza Mendoza)

[Paul Lawrence]

Thanks Antonio ... 

All,
These for my benefit. 

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. 

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.

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.

BTW, really enjoyed Saturday. Maybe sometimes, the best agenda is no agenda.

P

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Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 13:49:56 +0000 (GMT)
From: Antonio Mendoza Mendoza <agmendozam at yahoo.es>
Subject: Re: [Klug-general] Technical Meeting Saturday 26th November
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About Safer browsing.
There is a Mozilla Firefox extension quite interesting, "HTTPS everywhere"
https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere

Also, for those who cannot/do-not-want-to get rid of Windows machines I'd recommend the following software:
- Spybot Search And Destroy(*), from?
- Malwarebytes, from?http://download.cnet.com/3001-8022_4-10804572.html?spi=2419d5c73427bcede13789a2b38aae3b&part=dl-10804572
- ComboFix (when you already have a malware problem or suspect one), from?http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/anti-virus/combofix

(*) 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.

And not necessary but helpfull CCleaner, from?http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/download/standard
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.?

This post wouldn't be written in a Open Free World, without Windows and Gates :):)

Regards
Antonio
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