For Windows and Mac users, there is no better way to make online banking as reasonably secure as possible. It is impossible to ensure total security but to use Trusteer Rapport is to exercise Due Diligence with two capital Ds.

I would no more go online to my bank without Rapport than I would leave my house without being decently clothed.

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From FSB With Love .

Brian u said it before .You like traffic this story brings to your blog that all .So you keep going over and over and over the same old dead story again and again . SUCK it till its dry !!

i will lough my head of in spring/summer/winter/when ever in 2013 when every single bank will say , we spent all this money and nothing happening .bloody Brian Crebsky and his BS story’s .

In a nutshell, the issue is that by checking various browser settings, the banking website can guess with a high probability whether the connection comes from the usual user’s pc or some other machine. To evade the detection, the attackers want to mimic the victim’s system as much as possible.

I don’t want to go into technical details here, but you can completely defeat this protection with either off-the-shelf software or a simple custom browser extension. Building an entire virtual machine environment for this task seems positively Rube Goldberg-esque.