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Old Aug 22, 2006 | 8:04 pm
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Originally Posted by DMSFCA
...I guess I don't fully understand the sheer paranoia that some people have on their home networks, unless you do a significant amount of highly sensitive work product at home....
My concern is that I keep my family financial data on a home computer (Quicken, Excel), and that I do online banking and credit-card payments which involve entering my usernames and passwords.

If the bad guys were able to remotely install a keystroke logger / screen capture utility on my machine and collect that information, it could cause some pretty stressful situations.

Others FlyerTalkers may have information as to whether it is possible to remotely install that kind of malware.
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