Hans-Werner Hilse wrote:
Hi,
On Thu, 07 Feb 2008 13:05:00 -0500 7v5w7go9ub0o
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
- The SSL connection is established within the Linux VM, so all the
host sees is an encrypted connection to your bank.
Wrong: It will also see all the virtual memory the virtualized machine
Hi,
On Thu, 07 Feb 2008 13:05:00 -0500 7v5w7go9ub0o
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
- The SSL connection is established within the Linux VM, so all the
host sees is an encrypted connection to your bank.
Wrong: It will also see all the virtual memory the virtualized machine
is using, including those
Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In the context of online banking, where Windows of some flavour is the
desktop OS, I see a substantial risk arising through spyware and/or
viruses. I suspect that a neat way to mitigate this would be to run an
OS from a CD which offers nothing more fancy than a
Jan Seeger wrote:
snip insane security paranoia
insane? What's insane: Presuming the windows host is compromised? or
having your computer on a USB flash drive? or using two browsers to
confirm the integrity of a site? The procedure is quite easy, once
you've done it once or twice.
But go
On Thursday 07 February 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Thu, 07 Feb 2008 15:27:51 +0100, Michael Schmarck wrote:
In the context of online banking, where Windows of some flavour is the
desktop OS, I see a substantial risk arising through spyware and/or
viruses. I suspect that a neat way to
On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 15:37 +, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Thu, 07 Feb 2008 15:27:51 +0100, Michael Schmarck wrote:
In the context of online banking, where Windows of some flavour is the
desktop OS, I see a substantial risk arising through spyware and/or
viruses. I suspect that a
On Thu, 07 Feb 2008 15:27:51 +0100, Michael Schmarck wrote:
In the context of online banking, where Windows of some flavour is the
desktop OS, I see a substantial risk arising through spyware and/or
viruses. I suspect that a neat way to mitigate this would be to run
an OS from a CD which
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On Thu, 07. Feb, 7v5w7go9ub0o spammed my inbox with
snip insane security paranoia
Actually, at that stage, you should be more worried about the hardware. Slip a
little hardware
keylogger in there and all that is for nothing. And try to do online
Steve wrote:
In the context of online banking, where Windows of some flavour is the
desktop OS, I see a substantial risk arising through spyware and/or
viruses. I suspect that a neat way to mitigate this would be to run an
OS from a CD which offers nothing more fancy than a basic web-browser.
Mick wrote:
On Thursday 07 February 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Thu, 07 Feb 2008 15:27:51 +0100, Michael Schmarck wrote:
In the context of online banking, where Windows of some flavour is the
desktop OS, I see a substantial risk arising through spyware and/or
viruses. I suspect that
On Thursday 07 February 2008, Håkon Alstadheim wrote:
Mick wrote:
Basic web browsers do not have the javascript, Java (and soon enough
flash?) functionality that the majority of banking sites require.
Wouldn't Knoppix with its Firefox and equivalents do the job for you,
after you set
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