Keeping Your Online Banking Safe

In the last FDIC consumer news edition, the FDIC had an article with tips for safe online banking. One of those tips included:

Consider using a separate computer solely for online banking or shopping.

This Computer World blog mentions an alternative:

the CIO of the Orlando, Florida-based regional bank would like to see all of his customers - both consumers and businesses - access online banking either from a dedicated machine or from a self-booting CD-ROM running Ubuntu Linux and Firefox.