How about the Win8.1 device health assistant? Competently defending online banking security

Computer store news: Microsoft pushes a mysterious update to Windows full-platform products: "Device Health" (Device Health), the specific patch is marked as KB2938861, respectively, supports Windows XP, Vista, Win7, Win8, Win8. 1 platform, does not support Server server products.

The windowsroom of foreign countries also adopts the graphic method to directly introduce the operating principle of the Windows 8.1 device health assistant. Refer to the following ——

After the normal user installs the device health assistant, when you try to log in When a bank's online account or other sensitive personal account, the page detects that your current computer environment is not secure enough, it usually alerts the user for the first time, such as the lack of a digital certificate or signature.

Therefore, the Banking Financial Association decided to work with Microsoft to launch the device health assistant program.

According to the Microsoft Knowledge Document, Device Health Assistant is a Windows service that enhances the health of user devices. The Device Health Assistant provides a range of services for partners such as online services and online payment platforms to enhance user transaction security through these service partners.

Among them, the services provided by the Device Health Assistant include a secure environment for identifying user devices and launching security software.

For example, when you use Win8.1 tablet to access online banking and log in to your personal credit card, the device health assistant will automatically activate to detect the current device security environment. If the device is secure enough, the device health assistant will dock with the web page and allow the individual to log in to the bank account. (Refer to the figure below)

If the local device is not secure enough, the bank's web page will refuse to log in to the bank account and display the message in the figure below.

Then contact the device health assistant function introduction, which mainly provides online payment and online banking and other platform calls to enhance online transaction security. Therefore, it is likely that Microsoft has cooperated with domestic and foreign third-party online payment, online banking and other institutions to develop projects that provide digital signatures and other auxiliary functions.