does anyone know which OS this threat attacks? Is it wild in the Unix world? PC world? Mac world?
I don't fully understand what this threat is capable of doing but I suspect that it cannot hijack funds that you are paying to previously set-up destinations. In my on-line banking I am generally paying bills to accounts that have been paid to before, the account details are already set up at the bank, I just select whose bill I want to pay and set the cash amount. Is this activity safe from MITB threat?
I have been playing with Ubuntu (a strain of Unix) which can be "installed" on a memory stick or run from a CD. It boots up and runs happily, from a memory stick, on my laptop PC and it includes a FF browser. One thing it cannot do is access or save files on the Windoze hard drive in the machine. Is this a good protection from the sort of trojan that MITB needs?
If it is a way of protecting oneself from this attack I would recommend it to anyone, it is a free download. You just need a PC with a CD rom drive to get it up and running.
Rans6....