Comments on: Zeus laughs at your anti-virus program http://www.winextra.com/opinion/zeus-laughs-at-your-anti-virus-program/ Satisfying Your Inner Nerd Tue, 22 May 2012 04:45:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Anon. http://www.winextra.com/opinion/zeus-laughs-at-your-anti-virus-program/comment-page-1/#comment-685 Anon. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:07:26 +0000 http://www.winextra.com/index.php/2009/09/17/zeus-laughs-at-your-anti-virus-program/#comment-685 Are computer users really so dumb that they connect to their online banking from software on the machine's hard disc? I use a "nix" based O/S on my home computer, but I only bank from a computer booted and running from a CD-ROM live distro. And in the session so started, I just log on to the bank. After that I close and reboot if I want to do anything else. You could even boot up with a Windows live disk, I suppose, although freebie Linux disks are so universally available, why bother to pay Microsoft. Are computer users really so dumb that they connect to their online banking from software on the machine's hard disc? I use a "nix" based O/S on my home computer, but I only bank from a computer booted and running from a CD-ROM live distro. And in the session so started, I just log on to the bank. After that I close and reboot if I want to do anything else.

You could even boot up with a Windows live disk, I suppose, although freebie Linux disks are so universally available, why bother to pay Microsoft.

]]> By: Anon. http://www.winextra.com/opinion/zeus-laughs-at-your-anti-virus-program/comment-page-1/#comment-3991 Anon. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:07:00 +0000 http://www.winextra.com/index.php/2009/09/17/zeus-laughs-at-your-anti-virus-program/#comment-3991 Are computer users really so dumb that they connect to their online banking from software on the machine's hard disc? I use a "nix" based O/S on my home computer, but I only bank from a computer booted and running from a CD-ROM live distro. And in the session so started, I just log on to the bank. After that I close and reboot if I want to do anything else. You could even boot up with a Windows live disk, I suppose, although freebie Linux disks are so universally available, why bother to pay Microsoft. Are computer users really so dumb that they connect to their online banking from software on the machine's hard disc? I use a "nix" based O/S on my home computer, but I only bank from a computer booted and running from a CD-ROM live distro. And in the session so started, I just log on to the bank. After that I close and reboot if I want to do anything else.

You could even boot up with a Windows live disk, I suppose, although freebie Linux disks are so universally available, why bother to pay Microsoft.

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