Live CD - Safest for Transactions Online ?

[Ocky]

It makes sense to me that a live cd (say linux distro), is the safest way
to do online banking etc. Of course it should be clean and a cd-r and have
been md5sum checked.
Not being expert calibre, is this correct and would there be any security
loopholes that could possibly be exploited assuming AV and router/firewall
etc. installed.

Regards.

[lucas1985]

You got the concept of LiveCDs :)
Hardware keyloggers and eavesdroppers (if you happen to use an unencrypted site) are the only flaws of LiveCDs.

[Cerxes]

...and the keyloggers are just the malware class we want to avoid when doing our online banking...;)

/C.

[farmerlee]

I use SLAX which i have installed on a write protected flashdrive. Slax is great cause i can load the entire OS into memory plus being on a flashdrive loading times are very quick.