You’re about to enter your user name and password to access your bank account information. You feel confident that the Web site you’re looking at belongs to your bank because you bookmarked it before or you typed in the address yourself.
But with today’s sophisticated malware that can redirect your browser without you knowing it, for all you know that Web site could be a phishing site that’s waiting to steal your password.
It used to be that malware such as computer viruses and the like were there just to bog your system down or even worse, erase all your data. But today’s malware doesn’t want you to know that it’s there. Because it’s no longer the geeky teenager playing a prank. It’s organized crime that’s trying to steal your money, and now they can do it without having to wave a gun in your face.
Thankfully there are things available that can protect you.
ID Vault (www.guardid.com) is one such product that uses some very clever and sophisticated technology that keeps all your sensitive information off your hard drive. It looks like a little padlock and works much like one of those flash memory sticks that you plug into any USB port. You just press on the hasp and the USB plug pops out.
After you plug it in, the ID Vault uses its own memory to store your name and password information, and it’s encrypted. When you’re done, simply remove it. Now if the bad guys go looking for your stuff on your hard drive, it just isn’t there.
The ID Vault can also be used with non-financial sites as well. In fact, it works with any site that requires a name and password.
The newest 2008 version of the ID Vault can now store user…