Rapport bank security software

Has anyone tried Rapport bank security software on their mac? A few banks offer it as a free download (eg, A&L, NatWest). I read some reports of it being a memory and CPU hog on PCs, but wondering whether it is any better on a mac.

Thanks for bringing this up. When I checked a few months ago, there was no Mac compatible version as far as I could tell, so I have ignored it ever since. I see there is now a Mac version, so I've downloaded it. I'll see how it goes.

[EDIT] Well, so far so good. There's a rapportd daemon running accrrding to Activity Monitor, and it's using 35.3 MBytes real memory and 2.4% of one CPU core. Can't see that causing many problems.

Edited by deleted (Tue 02-Feb-10 17:55:44)

Yes, I was pretty surprised to see a mac version. I nearly didn't bother looking, as I was so sure it would be Windows only. Thanks for the initial feedback.

PC here, no adverse issues.

I had problems with Rapport for Mac - OSX 10.4 - once I installed it I couldn't switch between accounts without the system hanging - I'm not reinstalling until I hear something better!!

I have had nothing but problems with Rapport. It does not seem to work in a multi-user set up - particularly when one of the users is "file-vaulted".

Quite a few issues with the Mac version reported here.

And it seems the claims made to promote Rapport may be based on a suspect methodology, as reported here.

I have been using for over a month on a Mac Pro with no problems.
No performance hit at all.
It does come with an uninstall script if you need to uninstall.
I have not needed to do so. Working fine so far.
I go to a lot of financial sites because I take care of my mothers stuff as well. If fact I got the Rapport security software at Bank of America site. But it seems to work at all the sites.

OS 10.6.7
Safari 5.0.5
Firefox 4

The fan on my MacBook Air was going into overdrive, and it turned out Rapport was taking 83% of CPU and running the battery down. Open Activity Monitor and sort by CPU usage to see if this is causing a problem. Force quit it if it is. I will be removing Rapport if this problem persists.

Just had exactly the same issue on my Macbook Pro. Fan going nuts, legs on fire and Rapport grabbing 83% CPU on my wife's user account, even though I was logged in on my account and the browser and e-mail were completely shut down on both accounts. It really is pants.

not had a problem with it up until now when i find it doesn't work with Lion.

I've been using it on Snow Leopard for well over a year with absolutely no problems. Runs fine with my two main Scottish banks and will report previous usage of my banking password if I try to use the same one, or even part of it, elsewhere. Does not seem to be a memory/CPU hog as reported by my monitoring systems. Bear in mind that for online banking YOU are responsible for your access codes. I would certainly not rely on some third party software to do it for you. I change all my codes bi-weekly and only use a wired connection.

I would never use banking access codes on a wireless, public access point or iPad/iPhone dial up connection.

I've not tried Rapport on my Lion systems yet. Have to admit I quite like Lion. All my main apps, Photoshop/LightRoom and, dare I say it, MS Office 2011 are all buzzing along nicely.

'Natural Scrolling' is a bit weird though. Turning the Magic TrackPad upside down works but it does not feel right. Removing the tick box in 'System Preferences' works better

All fine here.