I want to use a public PC to do some banking when I am overseas. I intend use the portable apps on a flash drive. I have never done that before. The claim is that it leaves no footprint behind on the PC; has that been verified recently? I need some reassurance.
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Who made that claim? None of the apps on this site claim to leave no trace at all, they just claim to leave no personal data behind. There will always be a trace left in the windows prefetch files or in the registry MRU entries. In the future, the apps here will try to handle those as well, but only if you are running the apps from a PC with administrator privileges.
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Footprint ?
Your personal data is deleted on shutdown.
That is basically all that is claimed.
As far as doing banking on a public machine,
wouldn't do it myself. The public machine could have spyware which could access/track your data before it is deleted.
Tim
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Things have got to get better, they can't get worse, or can they?
Whether or not it leaves anything behind is irrelevant. If it has a keylogger on it then it will get all your bank info.
cowsay Moo
cowthink 'Dude, why are you staring at me.'
Unless if you were to do something like boot from a live CD.
As John would say:
Anyone that says their apps leave no trace are either:
A)Lying
B)Trying to Sell you something,
C)Both A and B
It's usually C.
But it doesn't leave any Personal information behind. In the case of a keylogger, I remember seeing something on lifehacker that you on-screen keyboard the password and drag it to the password field.
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They don't work because they just send messages to the OS the same as if the key was actually pressed, meaning keyloggers can still trap it.