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By: smith

smith — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 08:54:20 +0000

Hey Tom,
Great Post!
Thanks for sharing such a nice and valuable information, i had gone through the article really a very nice and detailed review.
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And its safe and secure to keep changing the passwords very often.

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By: Anthony -used cars

Anthony -used cars — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 22:09:41 +0000

Thanks for the advice. When you run an online business, it is easy to become to “familiar” or “complacent”. But we can’t forget the risks that come with the convenience.

By: Edwin

Edwin — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 13:54:30 +0000

From a security point of view it’s a small investment to obtain one of the paid AV solutions, like for example Kaspersky – Sunbelt’s Vipre – Avira or Eset Nod32

Those are some of the top AV solutions, AVG is compatible with a lot of other solutions, so you can have a free and paid solution running at the same time.

Use AVG to run daily scans on demand and use other software for daily scans and real time protection.

AVG can also in some cases use its real time protection, but that depends on the secondary AV you would use.

Ideally speaking you would use a stand alone device to do your online banking on…and nothing else!

Thus no visits to other websites, not even main stream websites as advertisements on these websites are often abused by malicious people to install malware into your browser by Flash or other means.

Use the stand alone only for online activities like online banking / PayPal, etc…nothing else.

Interesting story here on this by the way:
http://www.businessinsider.com/henry-blodget-gawker-scammed-by-malware-pretending-to-be-suzuki-2009-10

You install a top notch firewall on your stand alone computer, for example ZoneAlarm.

And a stand alone computer just for online banking doesn’t have to tricked out with the latest stuff, you have some decent priced net-books for $300 that does the trick just fine.

A small investment for eliminating virtually all risks associated working with very sensitive information and accounts that are accessible online compared to machines that are used for every day stuff.

Either by you alone or family members as well.

Don’t install any other software (Apart from your AV software) on the computer other then what you need to do your financial stuff and make sure it comes from trusted sources, for example spreadsheet software, etc

All is left to do when you want to do your online banking, which is best to do on a non-WiFi connection no matter how securely you think it is — is to switch your regular machine for the stand alone and you reduced your risk by 99% for any wrong doing by 3rd parties to your online banking activities.

Thanks for letting me add my 2 cents.
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By: Tax Guy

Tax Guy — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 20:43:16 +0000

I agree that anti-virus software, a firewall and a strong password are good and valid points.

If you ever log in to a site that contains personal information (banking, credit card or profile), you’ll need to recognize if the site itself is using security.

One tell tale sign is a golden “lock” that appears either in the lower part of Internet Explorer or in the address line. If you can’t find the Golden lock, thing again about logging in.