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  • aliEnRIK
    aliEnRIK Posts: 17,741 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    Comodo firewalls 'defense' mode would stop ANY keylogging program in its tracks.
    :idea:
  • I bank online with NatWest and they have provided a card-reader free (well free in that they will have got their money back in other ways no doubt) for home use. At present you only need to swipe for certain transactions.
  • superscaper
    superscaper Posts: 13,369 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    I think there's a chance of this getting treated disproportionately. The people I know who've been defrauded of money from their accounts etc were succumbed to things nothing to do with computers; cards being swiped by staff in shops, scanners put on cash machines, wallets stolen, phone calls pretending to be the bank. I don't know of a single person personally who's had bank fraud problems because of lack of security on their pc. I'm not saying it doesn't happen but I think relatively it's far less likely than simply getting your details stolen in the "real world" through social engineering and physical theft etc which is far easier for a thief to do than actually remotely hack into someone's pc or write a virus to do the same.
    "She is quite the oddball. Did you notice how she didn't even get excited when she saw this original ZX-81?"
    Moss
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