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jr. member
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January 08, 2024, 05:15:05 AM
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BMalware may not likely damage your wallet. What malware will do is to steal your keys so that the hacker that steal it can use it to spend your coins. Malware may not steal your keys but able to make you send to a wrong address, like the clipboard malware. So malware will most likely compromised your wallet instead.
So base on your valuable point got me thinking you specifying "clipboard malwares" because clipboard hijacking Malwares normally copy data intercept data being copied and pasted and replace it with malicious code. That why they can replace addresses by changing it to the hacker address. So was force to make some research and found out that they different Malwares with different uses to hackers right
hero member
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January 08, 2024, 04:47:34 AM
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1. The most common damages that malware causes is the fact that they can steal your informations or say data. This information can either be a private key or seed phrase which both are the most important data of crypto wallets that needs to be kept save. Malwares can cause clipboard issues where it changes intended addresses to that of an hacker’s

2. It is mostly hard to identify whether a device has caught malware easily even some Antivirus do not detect some viruses easily. One of the common ways to detect a malware is when the device is slowing down but this days some malware actually do not make a device to slow down.

3. The surest way to prevent malware is to keep the device offline and that’s why offline wallets are mostly advice as the best wallets. You can also use Antivirus but must be the official website and verified. Do not download any crack version of an app. Learn to use OS like Linux because Windows are mostly prune to malware
legendary
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January 08, 2024, 04:44:38 AM
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•What damages can a malware cause to your wallet?
Malware may not likely damage your wallet. What malware will do is to steal your keys so that the hacker that steal it can use it to spend your coins. Malware may not steal your keys but able to make you send to a wrong address, like the clipboard malware. So malware will most likely compromised your wallet instead.

•What are the signs that your wallet being attacked by malwares?
There may be no sign until it is too late after your coins have been stolen. But there are sometimes that you may notice, like the clipboard malware in which the address you copy would not be the address your clipboard will paste. That is a sign of malware. But the most important thing is to avoid malware instead.

To clean your device from malware, format it completely and reinstall its OS.

•How can it be prevented?
Use cold wallet instead, like wallet on an airgapped device https://electrum.readthedocs.io/en/latest/coldstorage.html

Or you can get yourself a hardware wallet.

Learn about multisig wallet
https://electrum.readthedocs.io/en/latest/multisig.html
https://bitcoinelectrum.com/creating-a-multisig-wallet/

Online wallets are not safe.

Make sure you avoid malware. Do not click on ads, avoid downloading torrent files and visit only the correct URLs.
jr. member
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January 08, 2024, 04:33:59 AM
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Good day

I've being this forum for not quite long , coming here at first didn't understand anything about bitcoin technical part first time I encountered a discussion in this thread it seems interesting, got me feeling dizzy was like seeing some words haven't seen before.
But I was still moved to learn about it then I actually started learning about  technical part of bitcoin and I can see some improvement. But I'm still on the wallet part during my research found out malware can cause damages to our wallet (software wallet because is connected to intern) . And mostly use by hackers but still don't get it clear. I actually vibe learning from different sources and this forum one of them.
My questions are:
•What damages can a malware cause to your wallet?
•What are the signs that your wallet being attacked by malwares?
•How can it be prevented?
Any one opinion is appreciated, thank you.
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