views on Trusteer Rapport?

[KelAt]

Rapport causing machines to fail at boot-up

 

An update to Trusteer Rapport is causing machines to become unbootable. I've seen this in 3 PCs over several months. The machines fail on boot-up with a Blue Screen of Death (stack buffer overflow), due to the file c:/program files/trusteer/rapport/bin/rapportei.sys

 

The problem can be resolved by renaming this file to anything else. Trusteer was alerted to this over a month ago, but they are continuing to push out the same broken update.

[bridie]

david

 

i have found trusteer rapport to be a very good product , no worries in installing it or using it, my bank flagged this product , good on them , i feel much safer using this instead of those free ones or one of the other so called systems

 

 

i did use one it messed my laptop up completly , had to have it reformatted , so i can say i would tell anybody give this one a try you wont be dissappointed !!! carryon all at truateer

[Starbuck]

With most banks now sending out these 'Secure Key pads' that generate a new login number each time, i wonder whether software like Trusteer is actually needed anymore.

It's like having a new password every time you log in.

So it's not much help to any hackers.... is it?

[scepticOfCheltenham]

Everyone seems concerned about how this software affects their operating systems etc, but no-one seems to worry about the big picture. Why are all our banks putting such reliance on software that is developed in a foreign state which is not only a nuclear power but is at war with its neighbours? Who is doing the checks that this software is not a trojan horse in the true sense that canl bring our whole banking system to its knees at the whim of a foreign power?

[Plastic Nev]

I could make a comment on that scepticOfCheltenham, but I would get in trouble for highly political views, lets just say, we hope we don't fall out with Isreal.

 

In all seriousness, the relevant security people should have checked it out for signs of that sort of thing. If they haven't, let this be a question to them to do so.

 

Nev.

[RandyL]

I agree Nev. We don't want to get caught up in that. Of course "polite" discussions can be made in the appropriate forum.

 

Easy to run afoul of polite when it comes to politics though. I'll abstain.

[charlierickard]

Rapport saved me

 

I had successfully sold a car on eBay when I received an email from (as I thought) an eBay member stating that the car had appeared under two separate listings and could I confirm that I was only selling one car. I was suspicious but it all looked legitimate so I started to reply. I then got a request from (I thought) eBay to log in. This did not seem unusual as I always log out when I have finished on eBay, and I assumed this was the case. However, when I entered my user name and password, Rapport flashed me a warning saying that I was using my password for an unrecognised web site, I pressed the "get me out of here" button and was saved.

 

This was a very clever scam which used all the eBay credentials but was clearly an attempt to get at my personal details.

 

On this basis I would strongly recommend Trusteer Rapport as extra security.

[Plastic Nev]

A good escape for you, however, most folk either ignore or forget that just hovering the mouse pointer over a link will show the correct address on the bottom left of most browsers. Disguising a real address is really easy on the main page, but the browser itself will show you what the address really is on that bottom left line.

A case in point would be for example www.isntthisfun.com

 

Hover your mouse over that so called address and you should find it is really a link to our home page.

Just shows how easy it is to create miss leading addresses and links, yet also so easy to see that is what they are.

 

Nev.