08-29-2009, 06:58 PM
Vanraw Wrote:Actually my daughter is heading to England for a year, and I am concerned about her getting her laptop stolen and identity theft. Since she will be using the laptop for banking and such, which she does not now.
Any idea's?
You could set up remote desktop connection so that she is logging into your pc when banking. That way none of the information is stored on her computer unless someone slips in a keylogger. If she is using Money or Quicken I would think bitlocker that comes with vista ultimate would be sufficient to protect that information. Alternately, you could set up a 2nd browser on her pc, ie. Google Chrome, just for banking. Set it to privacy mode where it does not save cookies, passwords, forms, etc. Advise her to not ever save login info in the browsers save menu when prompted.
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