Trusteer Crapport
The latter part of this article read like an advert for this utter crapware. As an independent IT consultant I regularly service hundreds of PCs, and when a person reports broken or sluggish browsing, this is the first thing I now look for following the usual malware (well, I class this as malware these days). In all cases where browsing was still broken or horribly slow, after malware removal, ripping out this rubbish fixes the problem.
The scary thing is, after looking into this company and its products and methods from a position of complete ignorance a couple of years ago, I now believe the entire banking industry is moving inexorably toward mandatory takeup of this failtastic application. Indeed, I have one client whose banker, name withheld, threatened to remove banking services following an ID theft incident where several thousand pounds were siphoned from his account, unless he installed Crapport.
Just reading the outrageous claims for this product is a revelation. Did you know that even a machine riddled with malware is 100% safe to perform online banking with, as long as you have TR installed? I kid you not. And apparently the secure tunnel it provides between client PC and bank is as rugged as the Rock of Gibralter! Except that without much skill in advanced hacking I am easily able to knock out the core TR engine with a simple script (does need a reboot after to complete the process but that will happen the next time the hapless owner switches their machine off).
Be afraid, very afraid.
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