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@Ashtonian While the information is held in cookies, it is possible to set your browser to delete cookies when you close it. This is for information besides url for bank and username/password such as a secret question. With some institutions, if you tell their system to remember your computer, the cookie information is stored in flash file. Whenever you go to login to your bank, that flash file recreates the cookie with the secret question allowing you to access your account with only the url, username and password. Since it was said that possibly a keystroke logger is being used, i wonder if it is not safer to have the extra security information stored in a flash file as that would probably not be as easy for the hackers to get as it is not a uniform practice with financial institutions. Any comment on this?
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