Use Linux to work with online banks

This is what Bryan Krebs, columnist for The Washington Post, advises everyone to do in the Avoid Windows Malware article : Bank on a Live CD . He interviewed representatives of several dozen companies that lost between $ 10,000 and $ 500,000 because of malware found on computers from which banking operations were conducted. As an example, in another article by the author , Zeus troyan is indicated, which allows attackers to replace the original bank page with their own and intercept user data. Brian even wrote a guide on using the Ubuntu Live CD for those who have never had a case with him. Of course, the Mac is also suitable, but the article is written for Windows users who do not want to permanently change the main OS.

SANS Technology Institute, which has prepared a report on combating similar problems for small and medium-sized businesses, comes up with similar recommendations. In their report, they recommend using such Live CD distributions like Knoppix and Ubuntu .

A similar opinion is shared by the Australian police inspector (Computer Crime Investigation Unit), who literally said: “The first rule: never click on the links leading to the banking operations pages, and the second: avoid Microsoft Windows”. ( It turns out this case has already been lit on Habré .) He also advises Ubuntu and, a small, fast- booting Puppy Linux .

It seems that Linux has a new, rather promising niche in the software market.
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From myself I can recommend some more light Linux Live CDs:
Slitaz (29 MB)
Damn Small Linux (50 MB)
Tiny Core Linux (10 MB)
Slax (thanks to alisfen for the tip)