New virus raids your bank account - but you won't notice

"The best way to protect yourself from an online financial scam is to diligently check your bank accounts. At least, until now.

Israeli-based Security firm Trusteer has found an elaborate new computer virus that not only helps fraudsters steal money from bank accounts -- it also covers its tracks.

Think of a crime plot involving a spy who plans to break into a high-security building and begins by swapping out security camera video so guards don't notice anything is amiss. Known as a surveillance camera hack, the technique has been used in dozens of movies.

A new version of the widely prevalent SpyEye Trojan horse works much the same way, only it swaps out banking Web pages rather than video, preventing account holders from noticing that their money is gone........................................................"

http://redtape.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/01/06/9986119-new-virus-raids-your-bank-account-but-you-wont-notice

The best way I have found to avoid these nasty trojans and viruses is to run all of your online financial transactions through a safe browser. Panda Safe Browser is a free download and it runs in a virtual Linux environment, thereby thwarting all Windows based attacks. I also have a VPN service, which encrypts all data and prevents man-in-the-middle attacks.



Panda Safe Browser

And if this did happen, your money is protected by the FDIC in the US. No guarantees in Mexico, are there?

How do you not notice?

johninajijic wrote:And if this did happen, your money is protected by the FDIC in the US. No guarantees in Mexico, are there?

Not with my bank :(

Some banks are not FDIC protected - Many "state bancos" in Tejas don't like no gubmint inturvinshun.