2009/10/18 Dale Stirling <[email protected]> > This is definatly a short term fix as I this becomes a major trend it > will just shift the attackers focus to the OS's on these live CD's. > > Then we are in the same position that we are now having users that > have a false sence of security from a quick fix that had a limited > life span. > > As said before I think a patched system and user education are the way to > go. > > I can see where the banks are coming from with this, since it *may *be possible to safely use a computer infected with current banking trojans when booting from a live CD. Penetration into the market will probably be low so malware pushers may not target this platform. However, even if this were an minimal environment which auto-updated on boot up I reckon this would be too slow for Joe Blow. I have doubts whether people would reboot into a different OS in order to gain some additional security.
Jim
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