im willing to bet money that this was done to further the online censorship and not by some hackers living in their moms basements

Originally posted by SloAnPainful
My advice, having a I.T degree, do not use free anti-virus software, pay for it. It will give you a better piece of mind.

The paid antivirus programs have the same problem, they can't stop a threat until they know about it.

Want good advice? Stop the threat before the antivirus company even knows about it.

Stop letting scripts run in your browser, with rare exceptions on a whitelist of sites that you completely trust. If you do that and you're careful about not opening untrusted e-mail attachments, an anti-virus is superfluous. I know plenty of people who don't even run an anti-virus at all and never get infected, but they are all technically savvy. People who aren't probably still need to run an antivirus but if you think that paying for one means it can stop threats before they know about them, the article attached to the OP correctly indicates otherwise..

one security company did privately concede that, if this threat had come from a source not known to be bad and started communicating with a web address also not on the black-list of "bad" sites - until they had discovered and analysed it - it probably would have beaten their protection.

This is why I configure my own security. This whole idea of having a "blacklist" of "bad" sites is part of the problem.

My security assumes all sites are "bad" unless I specifically whitelist a site, and would not permit such communication. The idea of blacklisting "bad" sites is a security approach that has more holes in it than swiss cheese and this article provides a perfect example of why this is so.

Its rather simple people and the solution is far more simpler.


A- Pay only with cash

B- Deposits and Transaction only by a physical person. Problem solved.

It is never totally safe to use online banking I guess.
You could always have a keylogger virus and your harddrive.

Bank under VMWare Workstation with clean OS image.
Use Sandboxie
Use Keyscrambler
Use Comodo Internet Security @ max protection settings
Use WinPatrol

Don't accept any system/browser modification.

If all this is complicated, boot from Linux Live disk [Almost any distro would do, I prefer Mint] and problem solved.

I don't use any antivirus and i've never been infected by any virus. I just run a spyware remover by time to time and nothing else... when you know how to navigate, you don't get infected or get scammed on the internets.
Well, here the ways the thieves try to steal your bank account's money is still phishing and farming, and you need to be really stupid to fall on the traps of the scammers, really.