'Rapport' Security

RichardJW1

G_M wrote: »

Not sure I understand: are you saying the Rapport company is collecting screenshots, or the VPN of the company where you work?

well it looks like its part of the VPN software installed by the company.....only it says that it is permanently blocking it, but it still keeps blocking it

RichardJW1

Tinkerbelle1 wrote: »

Do you run or save it when downloading ?

I think I just hit the 'run' function......it done everything itself and put a logo in the address bar, then all I did was indicate I wanted to make it a secure site

Tinkerbelle1

RichardJW1 wrote: »

I think I just hit the 'run' function......it done everything itself and put a logo in the address bar, then all I did was indicate I wanted to make it a secure site

Thank you, I'll get that done today

chris1

oldfella wrote: »

I run it inside a sandbox to do my banking

Care to explain what that means please?

RichardJW1

.....aand to add to this, I just switched on skype and I see that Rapport has blocked it from "capturing sensitive data".....not sure what it would be capturing but skype users beware

masonic

RichardJW1 wrote: »

Just to update on this, I went in to the Rapport Console and it indicated that within a week it had blocked 6 attempted screenshot captures by netclient.exe......it went on to say that it had logged 12 attempts to log key strokes

the only netclient.exe files are one which is the company VPN and another which is Windows 'Prefetch' pf file

seems like the company are trying to collect screen shots of everything

That's very interesting, as if it really is blocking your company's monitoring software if has the potential to land you in hot water with your employer.

masonic

chris1 wrote: »

Care to explain what that means please?

For example...

oldfella

Originally Posted by oldfella

I run it inside a sandbox to do my banking

Care to explain what that means please?

a sandbox prevents unwanted software like key loggers from running. In the event of something already being present in your system the effect of it is prevented as they cant write to disk.

sandbox plus Rapport plus a firewall = pretty good security for banking

burundi

Sorry to resurrect an old thread, I was just looking for more info on how Rapport works, however I read the 'sandbox' explanation and had to comment...

The program 'sandboxie' is a virtual sandbox, not a real one.

A true 'sandbox' is a operating system that is reset to a pre-saved state after each use.

The easiest way to achieve this is to use Microsoft Virtual PC and create a virtual computer and then turn on undo disks.

When you shut down the virtual computer you will get the choice of saving the changes made during that session, by saying 'no' to saving changes you will be discarding any changes made by malware or viruses that you may have picked up during browsing and the virtual computer will be back to the safe and clean state it was in before you started it up. (i.e: you have shaken the sandbox and cleared all changes made)

If you only use a particular session for your banking then the chances of it being infected by using any compromised sites are massively reduced, greatly improving your chances of not having any of your personal details captured.

Sandboxie and other similar software emulates this but it still runs on your normal PC and therefore the chances of it being as successful as a true sandbox machine are greatly reduced.

Virtual PC is a free download from Microsoft.

cloud_dog

burundi wrote: »

Virtual PC is a free download from Microsoft.

As far as I am aware Virtual PC will only run on Windows Professional and Vista/7 Ultimate, so....... a bit of a mute point for the vast majority of users who will not be running these higher end/spec OS. (http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/)

Sandboxie is a very good solution (especially with kids) but is not a secure environment as such, i.e. if you navigate to a dodgy website and malware is downloaded for that session you are exposed.