Washington Post: Avoid Windows Malware: Bank on a Live CD

The simplest, most cost-effective answer I know of? Don't use Microsoft Windows when accessing your bank account online.

Why is the operating system important? Virtually all of the data-stealing malware in circulation today is built to attack Windows systems, and will simply fail to run on non-Windows computers. Also, the Windows-based malware employed in each of these recent online attacks against businesses was so sophisticated that it made it extremely difficult for banks to tell the difference between a transaction initiated by their customers and a transfer set in motion by hackers who had hijacked that customer's PC.

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