Internet banking security

Sedated

Sedated wrote: »

Dont want to speak too soon BUT since last scan & reeboot IE is opening without the search enjine. Google looks to be functioning OK

Last night everything was fine, this morning turn on and back to another page opening behind with a search enjine. Go to google tell tale sign the line in the box prompting me to type flickering oddly and finally getting redirected. Ive just done 2 quick scans in safe mode nothing turned up.

Not happy is a understatement. Ive spent hour upon hour trying to sort this I dont feel confident to flatten the PC and start again.

toastydave

Sedated wrote: »

Last night everything was fine, this morning turn on and back to another page opening behind with a search enjine. Go to google tell tale sign the line in the box prompting me to type flickering oddly and finally getting redirected. Ive just done 2 quick scans in safe mode nothing turned up.

Not happy is a understatement. Ive spent hour upon hour trying to sort this I dont feel confident to flatten the PC and start again.

You could boot into safe mode and clean out your temporary files and run the Virus/spy/anything ware check again.

press F8 at startup to enter safe mode at boot time, login as Administrator, not you usual name, use CCleaner you clean out your temp files and rouge startup entries.

To be honest anything more than this may well end up with a trip to PCworld support to reinstall your O/S:(

closed

sedated, start a new thread, post a hijackthis log

http://www.trendmicro.com/ftp/products/hijackthis/HijackThis.exe

and details of what scans you have done, then scan with these

http://devbuilds.kaspersky-labs.com/devbuilds/AVPTool/

http://www.surfright.nl/en/hitmanpro

sharkie

For banking I used Virtual PC, or vmWare, and had an image of linux. To be honest, these days for finance I use bootable CDs, either Puppy, or at a push ubuntu. This is the only really safe and secure option that does not put me on the too overcautious and paranoid list. Saying that I am browsing this via a puppy cd

Windows is far too easy to manipulate.

candtalan

tweeter wrote: »

It's a bit of a fag but I do banking from a linux live cd. HTH

'Detective Inspector Bruce van der Graaf from the Computer Crime Investigation Unit told the hearing that he uses two rules to protect himself from cybercriminals when banking online. The first rule, he said, was to never click on hyperlinks to the banking site and the second was to avoid M...............'

http://www.itnews.com.au/News/157767,nsw-police-dont-use-windows-for-internet-banking.aspx