If you use e-banking with HSBC, NatWest, RBS, Santander and a growing number of other European and US banks, chances are you'll have been asked to download and install a free copy of Trusteer's Rapport security add-in to your browser.

The Rapport add-in, which monitors for any trojans affecting e-banking and blocks man-in-the-browser attacks, has now been enhanced with the addition of a malware removal utility.

According to Trusteer, this means that, as well as preventing trojans like Zeus, Silon, Bugat, DBJP and zero-day malware from tampering with website communications and transactions, the add-in pro-actively removes malicious code that attempts to attack browser sessions.

see the details in the Infosecurity.com article

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That's actually a nice article.
I use on-line banking quite allot and its a nice add on to have.

Its very inobtrusive, simply adding a green arrow to your address bar when in use.
No popups, no messages and great support. I got a BSOD from it once simply because the updates weren't getting through my firewall and then received the mini dumps and replied with a hotfix within an hour, and this was about 11pm at night.

The only downside I think is it can use a nice chunk of processing power which could be quite noticable on a slower PC. Currently its on about 31,000k as reported in Task manager, but thats no problem when its keeping my £2.50 safe

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But the user needs to be advised that Trusteer isn't going to handle all their security needs. If it did, I wouldn't be seeing so many logs for malware cleaning with the Trusteer entries!

Layered protection needs to be stressed> Antivirus, firewall and at least 2 antimalware programs>>plus a good maintenance schedule. And buying a suite such as the Norton/Symantec suites that advertise doing it all, don't!

My own preference is stand-alone programs for each> programs that do one thing 'each', can, in my opinion, do better than one program who advertises to do it all!

Regarding this:
How does one define Financial malware?

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I don't know how you could specificly class financial malwareoutside of the standard conventions.I personaly would say it's more on the arenas of keylogging and data harvesting attacks, those that harvest data primeraly for a financial purpose but that stretches far beyond online banking.

Most of the alerts seem to stem from an attack that could be harvesting data from a fake site, the user could be redirected to alerting them they are logging into a fake banking site (Along the same lines of fake email links).

Therefore them specificly targeting malware is a new feature.
It's unfortunate the suites of programs are pushed so much. Ichave heard so many say well norton is better than mcafee oh well no it's not simply because Its cheaper. The only advantage is the removal of incompatibilities in the software eg between the virus scanner and the spyware tool but that seems to be it.

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Olie, many times the users are 'disappointed' to the tune of "Well, so much for what I paid for Norton." They are brainwashed into thinking the suite 'does all' therefore what they do doesn't matter! By that I mean the file sharing, the bad sites they visit, and so on.

I once had someone having a fit over their security blocking a site that they were trying to access. I checked the site and Firefox put up the Alert about the site being fraudulent and not reputable. Of course, it doesn't load the site. I tried to explain this to that person, that his security was protecting him>>> didn't matter- he wanted to load that site!

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