General :: Online Banking Security
Jun 3, 2011
I'm new to Linux(Ubuntu 11.4), just installed it two weeks ago. I've been a member of Linuxquestion for about 2 or 3 years mostly lurking.I have building/buying computers for 30 years, first DOS,Windows 3.1, then Windows 95 through all to Win7.My question is for security of online banking and other financial things. Everything.I've been reading on here indicates that no Antivirous/Malware is needed. Being new to Linux, I can't tell if ClamAV is working or if is even needed.I had thought about doing banking on my wife's machine(Windows only) rebooting to a Ubuntu LiveCD. Does this sound like a more secure idea? Our two other machines are both dual boot with Ubuntu alongside of Windows XP & Windows 7.
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Nov 3, 2010
With the ever increasing threat of financially aimed malware on Windows machines(think Zeus here), I'd like to create a distro of Linux that boots from a USB thumb drive and opens directly to a web browser. I'd like this distro or config not to be writable and its only purpose being to make financial transactions via a web browser. All other services or applications would need to be stopped or locked down.I've seen some threads on here from a few years back and wanted to know if there is anything new out there that can assist with this.
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Jul 5, 2009
I'm trying to do an online security check on my Linux system.I would like to do a Firewall/Antivirus test. What free online sites do you know?For instance, I use ShieldsUp to test some firewall's components.Does someone recommend anything else?I still can't find a site that tests for the presence of virus/malware installed.Are there any?
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Aug 2, 2010
I have trouble logging in to some pages: gmail and www.alpha.gr. After entering username & password the browser is continuously loading but there is no network activity and the page won't load.I am running 64bit Lucid and have this problem with the latest versions Firefox, Chromium and Opera.There is no problem with Windows XP installed on the same machine. This is not the solution I want to follow however
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Dec 10, 2010
As the thread title suggests i want to know how to surf anonymously as can be. Im thinking of using a vpn provider over the isp provider and while using a vpn connecting to the tor network using firefox.
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Jun 22, 2010
Currently using linux mint.While it's nice I have the feeling all those bells and whistles must be exposing a large attack surface. What is the most secure distro known to man, but which is still capable of making payments to amazon and ebay?
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Dec 31, 2010
I received a CnMbook for xmas. It seems that I have connected WiFi to my home broadband is showing connected and an IP address, but when I try to browse it is saying that FireFox cannot find the server. Does anyone have any ideas about what I need to do to get online?
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Jun 4, 2010
In the web about ONLINE TV BROADCASTING under/with LINUX SERVER, i am not sure even how to spell it correctly, because i never had a need of such NFO. I need any kind of information regarding ONLINE TV BROADCASTING. I tryed but maybe my tryes are not hard enough to find something in the web, i know such information is not widespread.
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Jun 30, 2009
Ubuntu 8.04gnome-sound-recorder 2.22.0It is a simple recorder easy to use. But I can't find out how to add further recording after pressing [Stop]. Please advice how to continue recording instead of restarting a new recording.
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Aug 2, 2010
Cannot find a way to get online with ubuntu 10-04?
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Jul 15, 2010
Long time ago I installed Ubuntu [can't remember the V]. Unable to get online using dialup so never continued to learn. Have always wanted to find an alternative to Windows that I could easily use.
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Jul 8, 2011
As soon as I get the hang of remastering, I am planning to remaster my distro (I have MEPIS 8 now, but will switch to either 9 or 11) to do two things: install KDE Trinity (I don't like KDE 4), and remove all extraneous software: games, "toys," and specialized programs that it was peculiar to include on the liveCD in the first place (such as jbidwatcher, a program for monitoring eBay bids). Oh, and I'll try to make it fit into one CD (not one DVD). Since I don't like downloading DVD-sized distros in the first place ( DVDs cost more!), I might download the latest antiX MEPIS and modify it to my liking.
If I successfully remaster a new version of MEPIS to my specifications, I might as well try to share it online in case anyone would want it. Where would I upload a Linux distro to share it?
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Jan 30, 2010
I cannot access the web/ wireless internet...not my flash drives are being recognized.
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Jul 31, 2010
I would like to find a Linux testing environment , my PC is slow , it is not good to install VM and I do not have laptop , besides , I want to do testing at different places , can advise is there online Linux testing environment ? I just want to test the Linux command .
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Mar 5, 2010
I'm trying to pick between the many online storage providers, and I'm a bit lost in trying to decide. I'm using Ubuntu (Karmic), so UbuntuOne is an option, but I've also heard good things about Dropbox and SpiderOak. Can anybody give me some advice on what the main differences are?
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Mar 21, 2011
i'm trying to run a server for a game, that requires a few ports open (*since i connect to the internet with a router); for example one of the ports that needs to be open is "8888". But i tryed opening it thru my router localhost and it doesn't work (d-link DIR-400), so i was thinking if there's any way to open the ports of the router directly from Ubuntu; maybe console or program?for example for windows there's (Smart Port-fowarding) wich opens the ports you want without goint thru the router page.
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Feb 4, 2010
I just started Redhat Linux.Looking for good online material if anyone know abt it.
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Apr 11, 2011
I've got a bit of tricky situation with a Red Hat box, our network uses a proxy server to connect to the internet. I've exported its address using "export http_proxy=http://usernameassword@server_iport" and to test I ran a wget against www.google.co.za and got a response, but using elinks to connect to google gives a proxy requires authentication error. It cant possibly be the credentials as wget can connect. I've confirmed that the proxy was exported by running "env | grep -i proxy", I also tried appending that line on both "/etc/profile" and/or "/root/.bash_profile" with no luck. one other thing I noticed is that passing those arguments directly to elinks works, not only this but "ssh -X server_ip_address" then running firefox& and giving it the proxy address also works. Is the any other way to make this line global, meaning to tell all applications that require internet connection to use the proxy? The server is sitting at a remote location and I only have access to a shell.
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Oct 20, 2010
I am trrying to use the SD card reader in my Acer 7736z. When I plug the card in I see this:
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Oct 20 13:52:59 acer64 kernel: usb 2-8: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 5
Oct 20 13:52:59 acer64 kernel: usb 2-8: New USB device found, idVendor=0bda, idProduct=0159
Oct 20 13:52:59 acer64 kernel: usb 2-8: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
Oct 20 13:52:59 acer64 kernel: usb 2-8: Product: USB2.0-CRW
Oct 20 13:52:59 acer64 kernel: usb 2-8: Manufacturer: Generic
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Dec 31, 2009
I am writing my own anacron script that backs up my most important files from my laptop to my office pc regularly using rsync. However, sometimes my laptop is on when anacron starts the back-up job but my laptop is offline, so that it cannot rsync with my desktop. Is it possible to tell anacron to re-schedule the task to either the next time I'm online again or to some later date (preferably not the next scheduled time, but some time before)?
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Dec 8, 2010
I've a ibm x3650 with redhat 5.5 x86 This hardware has a feature for online-sparring for the memory.I know it can be seen from the bios. Does anyone know how can i confirm if the online sparring is enable or not from the operating system.
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Sep 18, 2010
Any one tell me online bash login using putty [ssh port] for practicing a linux.
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Aug 4, 2011
Is it possible to install Snavtclient, as i don't have much idea but i heard that i can view cameras online for AVTECH DVR once it is installed, i tried to download and install it through terminal but got this error.
*** The sdl-config script installed by SDL could not be found
*** If SDL was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in
*** your path, or set the SDL_CONFIG environment variable to the
*** full path to sdl-config.
Edit/Delete Message
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Jun 27, 2010
I have problem with network on my laptop. Networks status is Active and Online but i cant open any pages. (was working until installation openSUSE on ext HDD)I already try both wireless/wired connection but nothing.
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Jul 26, 2010
use a Live CD of Ubuntu to do all my financial transactions online, I figure thats the safest way since any virus/trojan cannot infect the Live CD?Just one question, how safe is it to use Linux as a whole for this kind of use?(I mean, Linux and all the apps are open source and written by just about anybody, so how can I be sure that even the Ubuntu Live CD doesnt have any sort of keylogger etc installed? After all, with so many lines of code, I'm sure someone could have sneaked in something like that?)
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Dec 25, 2010
I am using MTS datacard. I have usb_modeswitch installed and have configured the wvdial.conf file. When I do sudo wvdial cdma, the IPs and DNS addresses are also allocated but I still cant access internet.
The reply to dmesg | grep -e 'tty' -e 'modem' is:
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Jan 17, 2011
I am outstation and having laptop with windows and internet connection. I want to check one small program on linux. kindly tell if some free linux server is available on internet where I can upload my program, compile and execute. The program is generic and there is no restrictions regarding linux version.
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Mar 1, 2010
My root partition was filling up, with only 500 mbs left, I wanted to resize my root partition from 20 Gb to 40Gb
So I resized my partition by using these steps:
Using Gparted to resize another partition to give space for the EXT4 Using fdisk, deleting the root partition (on /dev/sda2), and creating it again using the new size resize2fs /dev/sda2 Updating grub2
But now the problem is that although I can boot in my new partition and the new partition shows it is 40Gb, but the free size was still 500mb. So I booted from a LiveCD and checked with e2fsck -p /dev/sda2, it reported clean. So I added the -f flag (force check), still, the drive is full.
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Jul 18, 2010
I have recently loaded Linux Mint on an old IBM Laptop and am very happy with the GUI; however, I would like to learn how to use the Linux shell/terminal. I don't know any of the commands. Is there a good online source for this information--a tutorial or list?
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Dec 6, 2010
I just started using Linux today on an inherited acer aspire one laptop. got myself tied into my home's wifi, but now i need a flash player so I can play games and watch video. Adobe has 5 different options for linux and I don't have any idea which one to pick.
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