On Thu, 07 Feb 2008 14:04:27 +0000 Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In the context of online banking, where Windows of some flavour is > the desktop OS, I see a substantial risk arising through spyware > and/or viruses. I suspect that a neat way to mitigate this would be > to run an OS from a CD which offers nothing more fancy than a basic > web-browser. > > Is there anything like this already available? >
Isn't mozilla (not firefox, that is) ) made for this kind of thing? I thought it was the hardened, corporate-ready branch of the browser. Incidentally, i think the best solution to spyware/adware worries is to not run windows. I have yet to find a substantiated claim of any malware (real malware, not theoretical, lab-contained stuff) for linux. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
