Is it safe to access bank account with my roaming dongle

Well anjou I am not aware how good that security you have is so I cannot comment. Personally I use Kaspersky which has a safe money function / feature and I use it with no hesitation.

But the choice is yours I would suggest you look at Kaspersky and see if what it costs per day is worth your peace of mind. Mine costs me $0.13 per day to run.

I fixed up my brothers on a recent trip back and he has no problems with it at all. They do also run special offers too so thee are tie s when you can pick the suite up with an extra years licence but as I said the choice is yours and how much your money means to you.

Well the security you have on that machine my friend is not known to me an just having a quick scout round I would be using something a a little more heavy weight than it.

But the choice is yours as for the banks security it might be ok but you are using wireless and and that is in my mind at least dodgy unless you use something like the program I suggested which is basically a sandbox type feature.

anjou2 said:

OK, so are we saying that, because it is a wireless connection, the 3 Dongle is not as secure as my Entanet connection at home ?

No anjou I am simply saying I do not know how good that security you have is and that you are using a wireless connection so whatever you are sending to and receiving from the bank via that venue is liable to be intercepted in the interim by other devices - for example another computer while the data goes back and forth.

Take for example the TV the signal is broadcast from the TV company via a high frequency signal and then is decoded at the TV and is turned into what you watch. Now that is just you and it is also available to many others who watch what you do as it is freely "seen" by other TV sets.
So you are really relying on the security program to make sure that the data is safe from view while it is sent from your machine to the bank and back again.
My security uses a form of "encasing" the data while I am on the line to my bank therefore I know it is safe whether I do banking on a cable or wireless connection .
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I never do any on-line banking because I do not think that it is safe - at least not with Windows. If you have to do on-line banking, use a Linux distro from a virtual partition. Example:

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I try not to do banking online unless it's a necessity. If I can get something done over the phone, then I choose that option. My thought is, why take a chance when you can accomplish what you need with a phone call.

Same with ordering something online, I prefer to contact them by phone & place the order that way.