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On 15/02/11 20:53, Philip Hudson wrote: > > Consider using a different browser for banking etc (on any OS, not just > linux) with all the security settings dialed up to the max and > especially with all caches etc. disabled or set to be cleared on exit. Re: my comments in reply to Gordon, if the bank is not the biggest security threat, do I use a different browser for each site that is such a risk? Ebay, Paypal, Broker, Facebook, Google... If the threat to banking is sufficient then the logical answer is yes. I'd suggest skipping browsers with bad, or poor security. So basically not IE, Webkit was slow to fix issues for a while (has it got any better recently?) which largely leaves Firefox/Gecko as the best of a bad bunch. I use to expire cookies as part of ending every browser session, but it is simply too tedious. Similarly I use to use NoScript extensively but it is too intrusive, and produces too many "false positives" (or rather reveals too many badly engineered websites). Be interesting what folks experience of malware is like. I've seen it steal FTP credentials from Windows to try and spread malware via websites. But most of the stuff I've seen hasn't actually succeeded in going beyond credentials into the world of money (unless one counts sending spam, or pay per click advertising fraud). As such the biggest issue is they make the machines (Windows boxes), slow and unreliable. Where email credentials have been stolen it was almost exclusively for the purposes of spam (or 419 emails). I presume more people are scammed than admit it, since it is presumably profitable. The only person who recently admitted to being "conned", was over domain renewal that looks like an invoice, and that was sent via snail mail. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq