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<blockquote data-quote="Burrito" data-source="post: 806454" data-attributes="member: 72439">What are the security benefits of using Isolation Mode?Several categories of threats are further mitigated by Isolation Mode:Browser Vulnerabilities: You may have noticed how often browsers are updated with security fixes. There are many, many sub-categories of attacks in this category including denial of service, stack overflow, execution code, gain privilege, memory corruption, malicious extensions, directory traversal, SQL injection. When you use Isolation Mode, the Symantec server takes on all the risk so you do not have to.Phishing Attacks: If you are getting into isolation mode for online banking protection you can be sure that you are not getting phished because we will only launch it if you are connecting to a legitimate website.Banking Trojans: The main goal of a banking trojan is to sit silently on your computer until you connect to a banking site. It will then scrape your credentials when you login to the site and send them to the hacker. Isolation mode makes it much harder for a trojan to carry out scraping because it confuses the website fingerprinting that most trojans use.==========Years ago I used <a href="https://www.ibm.com/us-en/marketplace/phishing-and-malware-protection" target="_blank">IBM&#039;s Trusteer Rapport</a> banking online protection tool -- which still exists.This Norton tool looks much better.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Burrito, post: 806454, member: 72439"] What are the security benefits of using Isolation Mode? Several categories of threats are further mitigated by Isolation Mode: Browser Vulnerabilities: You may have noticed how often browsers are updated with security fixes. There are many, many sub-categories of attacks in this category including denial of service, stack overflow, execution code, gain privilege, memory corruption, malicious extensions, directory traversal, SQL injection. When you use Isolation Mode, the Symantec server takes on all the risk so you do not have to. Phishing Attacks: If you are getting into isolation mode for online banking protection you can be sure that you are not getting phished because we will only launch it if you are connecting to a legitimate website. Banking Trojans: The main goal of a banking trojan is to sit silently on your computer until you connect to a banking site. It will then scrape your credentials when you login to the site and send them to the hacker. Isolation mode makes it much harder for a trojan to carry out scraping because it confuses the website fingerprinting that most trojans use. ========== [SIZE=4]Years ago I used [URL='https://www.ibm.com/us-en/marketplace/phishing-and-malware-protection'][I][U]IBM's Trusteer Rapport[/U][/I][/URL] banking online protection tool -- which still exists. This Norton tool looks much better.[/SIZE] [/QUOTE]

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