On 5 January 2011 09:30, mike wilson <[email protected]> wrote: > On 04/01/2011, John Francis <[email protected]> wrote: >>I personally don't want to put financial and tax information on somebody >> else's hardware. > > I wouldn't mind as long as they accepted responsibility for it as > well. My bank has asked me numerous times in the last year to do > internet banking. I always say that I will if they accept > responsibility for the security at my end as well as theirs. At which > point they lose interest.
Some do here, they provide code generating fobs which complete the security loop. > It appears that I was justified as, just before the holiday, I appear > to have picked up (despite rather a lot of security software and a > router) a keylogger trojan. As it was trapped with no way out it > appears to have eaten my registry and put me into perpetual reboot. > So far I have not been able to salvage the beast - I don't want to > install the latest image if I can help it as there is some recent > information I want to salvage. There are some pretty malicious and very clever rootkits circulating now and they are hidden so well that most AV/malware applications can't even detect them. Do you have a self booting o/s like BartPE that you can use to back up your data and help root out the infection? -- Rob Studdert (Digital Image Studio) Tel: +61-418-166-870 UTC +10 Hours Gmail, eBay, Skype, Twitter, Facebook, Picasa: distudio -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
