How does a virus get your online banking info?

6 Comments

1. Vaibhav says:

   August 7, 2010 at 9:59 pm

   So basically this is how it works. When you type in the password, if the spyware was configured by the hacker to listen to the keyboard presses for a website, it would have already transferred the password.

   If no, then you should be good.

   Get yourself a good real-time antivirus + spyware protection.
2. paul says:

   August 9, 2010 at 12:25 am

   spyware usually just keeps track of sites you visited….
   a keylogger…would keep a history of all the letters/numbers you pressed and that can be used to get account info
3. Vivek says:

   August 10, 2010 at 11:12 pm

   Heyy doodoo
   You are in a very dangerous situation. You will have to contacat the bank and change ur password immediately..
   There are sites known as phishing sites and the people who make use of it are called phishers.We never know which sites has phishers in it. They have devoloped a particular kinda software which is installed to our pc without our knowledge and this softwares work in such a way that it sents all the newly added user names passwords etc to the phishers mail everytime u get connected to the net
4. Thomas Beasley says:

   August 12, 2010 at 10:05 am

   If they would know. Then you would have a keylogger. Which is spyware, and that’s no good. Keyloggers record the keystrokes you type. And they take that, and find your password and other stuff, like your banking info.

   If you didn’t delete the spyware, do it now. Make sure it’s all gone. Same with viruses and such.

   Go download Malwarebytes. And download it, the free one is on the left side of the page. Download it, and update it yourself when it’s done. Then go and get rkill . Get the .com or .exe one. Download it and save it to the malwarebytes folder. Then run rkill(rkill terminates all malware processes, BUT DON’T RESTART YOUR COMPUTER AFTER DOIN THIS, THE VIRUS WILL JUST COME BACK.) When rkill is done. Do a full scan with Malwarebytes. When it’s done, you’ll be prompted to quarantine it. Do so. Then delete it from quarantine.

   When you do that. And make sure everythings gone. Monitor your bank account, make sure nothing is bought that you didn’t buy. If so, report it immediately. And if you can, change your password.

   And get an antivirus that protects against spyware. Microsoft Security Essentials is great. It has real time protection against malware, viruses, and spyware. Which you had. It’s light on the system(8MB) And you can change the schedule time to every day. Make sure you delete your other antivirus when you’re done downloading this if you do.

   Good luck.
5. reggie.wheeler90 says:

   August 15, 2010 at 12:46 pm

   There is going to be no way for them to have the banking information. Spyware mostly tracks visited websites you will get some really sophisticated spyware that will try to route you to different websites or even try to steal cookies off your machine. Trust the even if they were able to steal the cookie from your banks web site that session has long expired and they will be alerted that there session has expired and they need to enter in there password. You are given a different cookie every time you log in to the banks website. As for key loggers if you have any kind of anti-virus on your system that would get picked up immediately. I suggest you clean the spyware and make sure your systems has all the updates from Microsoft and that your anti-virus is up to date. This will help you
6. Just Ask Gemalto says:

   August 15, 2010 at 9:01 pm

   Online criminals often phish you for your information or use keyboard monitoring malware to “listen” to what you type into your keyboard while visiting certain websites. Change your passwords regularly and keep your anti-virus and anti-spyware software up to date so as to avoid criminals downloading malware software that can read what you are typing on your keyboard.

   For more on this subject, see also, “How do I choose a good password?” and “Are passwords safe?”