Beware Using Pcs That Are Not Under Your Control

[Gumballl]

Moments ago I was checking my Gmail and I noticed a little ad above my inbox concerning the "Ultimate Password Stealer". Since I had a few moments to spare I clicked on the link. It's quite interesting that a nefarious tool for stealing passwords (and all key clicks) are so openly and readily available... and received the "stamp of approval" from some major sources.

This notice should make anyone think twice before ever using a PC at an Internet Shop. Always carry your own bootable OS on a CD/DVD or Memory Stick.

Here's the link to the ad: <link removed>

Edited August 27, 2007 by Totster
Removed link - was also an affiliate link by the looks

[RKASA]

Most the I cafe I have been to lately freak out if you want to plug in anything. Before I would plug my laptop in and not even use their PC so I could up load. Then I came in with the stuff on Mem stick and oh no not that. You can check web based mail or play games thats it. To many script kiddies like to go into the shops and load virus or purhaps other things on them.

[Gumballl]

If you are out and about, it is probably safer to pop into a Starbucks, McDonalds, Subway, etc. and use their Wi-Fi network. If it requires a purchase, then buy something. Going into an internet cafe is like playing Russian roulette.

[RKASA]

I was just thinking. Why didn't Tesco or Big C put Wifi in the food court? Seems like a good place to set up.

[Guest Reimar]

I was just thinking. Why didn't Tesco or Big C put Wifi in the food court? Seems like a good place to set up.

Why you not offer or suggest them to do so?

[RKASA]

I didn't think of it before. I think I might say something to them about it. Then they can use it from the PC dept. to show off the connected laptops and PC's as well. Buy a card downstairs sit in the food court or most anywhere else and be online. We have a bowling lane now that would be nice to cover too. We are really up and coming here now that we have a bowling lane again. Last time I bowled in Phitsanulok was back in 82 before the topland lane closed . Some day they may have phone lines where I live. We don't have a Mc D or Burger King only the Chicken man here. I can't eat that stuff anyway.

[phazey]

I'll *religiously* avoid using any other machine apart from my own when out and about, BUT when i've been caught short (no battery/little GPRS credit) I always carry a little Linux distro on a USB keyring with all my settings/software on and try my best to boot from that instead of a cafe machine's hard disk. Got me out a few tight spots that has.

[Hmmm]

No need to carry a whole OS on your USB stick. Just need an encrypted password repository on the stick, like this free (for < 10 passwords) one ...

http://www.roboform.com/pass2go.html

If you need secure surfing, add free (but slow) portable/secure version of firefox, previously known as torpark, now xero bank browser ...

http://xerobank.com/xB_browser.html

Edited September 9, 2007 by Hmmm

[amigoro]

No need to carry a whole OS on your USB stick. Just need an encrypted password repository on the stick, like this free (for < 10 passwords) one ...

http://www.roboform.com/pass2go.html

If you need secure surfing, add free (but slow) portable/secure version of firefox, previously known as torpark, now xero bank browser ...

http://xerobank.com/xB_browser.html

Can you confirm that tor is legal under the new law?

[Hmmm]

No need to carry a whole OS on your USB stick. Just need an encrypted password repository on the stick, like this free (for < 10 passwords) one ...

http://www.roboform.com/pass2go.html

If you need secure surfing, add free (but slow) portable/secure version of firefox, previously known as torpark, now xero bank browser ...

http://xerobank.com/xB_browser.html

Can you confirm that tor is legal under the new law?

"Software applications for circumventing web-blocking are readily available. ... The Minister of Information Communications and Technology has said in an interview in the Bangkok Post that he has not blocked these methods because "using proxies to access illegal sites are illegal, whereas using proxies to access legal sites is legal."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_Thailand

So if the quote is accurate, use of the tools itself is not illegal. But since, by definition, remote monitoring cannot tell what sites are being accessed using these tools, one might conclude that this law may not achieve its aim.

Furthermore, since Google's cache can easily be used to access blocked sites (if you don't know how, I can't tell you ... or this post may be deleted), use of Google would be illegal if the law did indeed ban mere use of the available tools.

[OxfordWill]

I have never sat at a computer in an internet cafe in Bangkok and not found at least one piece of spyware on it. The problem is, in many cases, you cannot tell if that piece of spyware is a just a generic piece of advertising ware or something worse like a sniffer which will log and send your input somewhere. And you can't always spend the time cleaning it up before you use it. Better to take a USB with WinXP lite edition on it everywhere you go, or a cd with bootable linux.

And forget wireless networks in starbucks etc. Never never never never never never never logon to your internet banking in a wireless environment anywhere, anytime.

Edited September 10, 2007 by OxfordWill