--VIP-- Posted August 23, 2009 Share Posted August 23, 2009 hiyaaaa peeeps now i have a question i need to know about asap lol Now i want to do online banking at home without anhy worry of keyloggers or MW or TR or anything like that ... I have made viruses before and trojans and done alot of binding UD work so i know that Antiviruses are no mach for a good UD dinded trojan ..So what i wanted to do was use Xp pro as my main OS and use Vmware and use Linux OS to go online throught Firefox to do online banking .Thats the only way i know so far thats the best security for online banking ... Now am i going over the top on all this or do you thing its a good ,best way to do online banking ????? If so does anyone know a really very small Linux OS i can use thats lite and has firefox ????? Ubuntu is to heavy on Vmware and ive only got 2 gig memory or shall i just use a nice cut down version of xp on vmware ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colonel O'Neill Posted August 23, 2009 Share Posted August 23, 2009 I'd say having a good firewall or active scanner which has keylogger definitions is good.Some security suites will have Virtual Keyboards, which are supposed to provide some degree of protection against keyloggers.I may be completely wrong, but running a VM will expose the VM to memory hooks from malware in the host, even if the same memory hooks may not have enough privileges in the guest VM. Then again, I could be way off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ripken204 Posted August 24, 2009 Share Posted August 24, 2009 or just dual boot a version of linux if you want to run linux. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrf2027 Posted August 25, 2009 Share Posted August 25, 2009 hiyaaaa peeeps now i have a question i need to know about asap lol Now i want to do online banking at home without anhy worry of keyloggers or MW or TR or anything like that ... I have made viruses before and trojans and done alot of binding UD work so i know that Antiviruses are no mach for a good UD dinded trojan ..So what i wanted to do was use Xp pro as my main OS and use Vmware and use Linux OS to go online throught Firefox to do online banking .Thats the only way i know so far thats the best security for online banking ... Now am i going over the top on all this or do you thing its a good ,best way to do online banking ????? If so does anyone know a really very small Linux OS i can use thats lite and has firefox ????? Ubuntu is to heavy on Vmware and ive only got 2 gig memory or shall i just use a nice cut down version of xp on vmware ?Since it sounds like your main concern is what is present on your own system, I'd recommend booting from a Linux Live CD each time you do your online banking. Ubuntu's Live CD should boot just fine on 2 GB of RAM, and you can save any files you need to a FAT32 flash drive.Or you could increase your RAM to about 4 to 8 GB and go all out:Tin Hat Linux Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mijzelf Posted August 25, 2009 Share Posted August 25, 2009 <snip> keyloggers <snip> So what i wanted to do was use Xp pro as my main OS and use Vmware and use Linux OS to go online throught Firefox to do online banking .That won't work against keyloggers in the host OS, since the keystrokes to the VM go through the host first.The safest way is booting a Live CD each time you want to online banking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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