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Hi Folks :-) I have been trying to advise a colleague about on-line banking and security. She uses windows XP (I think) on a wireless laptop. She uses the same PC and same OS to do general day-to-day web surfing, work, email etc etc. The following article notes how this is a bad idea:- http://blogs.computerworld.com/15815/can_ubuntu_save_online_banking "Nobody seems to think doing online banking from the machine you use every day for Web surfing and e-mail is a good idea." I dare say there are many more similar articles out there. I suggested using a live-linux cd for her banking. ....which got me thinking... How safe/secure is it to do online banking from a computer where linux is the default(installed) OS? Should we too be booting a CD OS? Many thanks roly :-) -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq