Would the safe zone in Avast offer a significant improvement with online banking?
Safezone was designed to secure on-line banking among other things.
Alternatively if you prefer not to use Safezone to access your bank's website you can be secure when you access the bank's website if:
1. Your bank uses a "HTTPS" URL.
2. You use a unique password to access the bank's website
3. You change the password frequently
4. You only access the website directly and never form a link
5. You use the latest version of either IE, Google or Firefox
6. You can access the bank's website without allowing 3rd party cookies, but this may not be possible. If not then you should delete all cookies after leaving the bank's website.
7. You make sure that Java and Flash are kept current on your computer.
You should be secure in accessing the bank's website