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How can you defend yourself against Clampi?
"There is no product you can buy to stop this as a zero-day attack," Stewart says, though he added that antivirus software might eventually detect it and stop it later on your machine.
He recommended finding a way to use a "separate system" to conduct financial transactions, one that is not the same system you might use to browse the Internet. That would lower the risk of being infected by the Clampi Trojan.
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Bootable CD Secure Browser for Financial TransactionsBy Lancop1 on July 30, 2009, 9:38 amIt is long past the time when the financial services industry, now infamous for creating the derivatives meltdown, should have created a CD or write-protected USB...
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Actually, there is a product...By ru_trustified on July 31, 2009, 6:42 pmMr. Stewart is correct that there is nothing to stop such zero day attacks on commercial discretionary access control systems per se. However, we specialize in counter-espionage...
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VMwareBy Anonymous on August 3, 2009, 9:55 amUse VMWare to run a separate virtual machine to do only financials and other sensitive info stuff. Don't do anything else with it. VMware server is free. Then...
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Virus targets usersBy Anonymous on August 4, 2009, 5:26 amWell, you could change the security permissions for PSexec to a single account, then create a disposable password (max char) and assign permissions for that file...
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VMWare ServerBy Anon on September 21, 2009, 8:32 amCan you install and run VMWare Server on your desktop PC?
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