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Quote from: Caesar-Giulius on October 29, 2017, 12:25:48 PM

Luckily you manage to spot the BTC address pasted was wrong.

I suggest you to reformat your computer and reinstall the operating system. After that, get an antivirus to secure your computer.

Don't do copy pass. It not accept. If want post hone you will lean the bitcoin and get the information for the bitcoin process. Then will post what you know about the bitcoin question it help to improve your skill and knowledge. So bitcoin is improve your life style. Bitcoin is give to more information for the country growth and future business investment.

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Luckily you manage to spot the BTC address pasted was wrong.

I suggest you to reformat your computer and reinstall the operating system. After that, get an antivirus to secure your computer.

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Quote from: pawanjain on October 17, 2017, 01:08:18 AM

I didn't even know such type of virus existed Undecided

Thanks mate, for posting this thread.
It really creates an awareness in the common people. All of you should look for such kind of infection in your PCs.
Try to clean you PC with an anti malware program such as MalwareBytes or ZAM (Zamana Anti Malware). It looks like a malware program to me but can be something else too.

It did already exist since last year which this virus or malware do infect your pc and once you do copy your address and paste it and it show different address then your computer is already infected. Lucky for OP he did able to notice such thing but most people who do got victimized on this one did make such mistake on carelessly sending amounts into another wallet address and later on they did realize such mistakes. This is why always check or review on the address you do input.For now my best suggestion is to clean up your pc make a scan of your antivirus.If it still persist then do a complete reformat.

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Tremendously interesting proposition. It has some fishy parts. I shall analyze.

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that is very bad, a friend of my was once got the copy paste virus did not know how he got that, luckily he only sending a small amount of Bitcoin and he ended up reinstalling his OS, this is why everytime I want to send I always checked the first 3 digit and 3 digit in the middle and the last 3 digit of the address, and I always make it as habit only to make sure

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Quote from: superhelper on October 16, 2017, 10:37:10 PM

Suddenly i notice that my pc is affected by bitcoin copy paste virus! When i copy my btc address it paste another address. Please give me any solution if you known. Feeling very risky for this virus! Shocked

I also met the same problem. I've tried a lot of methods. It will be useful to format your computer and Web browser. Especially spyware has occupied everyone's computer.

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Quote from: superhelper on October 16, 2017, 10:37:10 PM

Suddenly i notice that my pc is affected by bitcoin copy paste virus! When i copy my btc address it paste another address. Please give me any solution if you known. Feeling very risky for this virus! Shocked

thank you for informing us about this kind of virus i read about this virus before but not in pasting bitcoin address it is program script virus like auto run maybe you can blocked this using antivirus then enable the blocking all the script from your computer that function of blocking script is available in all major antivirus software like smadav.

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Quote from: Fire Rabbit on October 18, 2017, 04:25:17 AM

Yeah I also had the same problem in my laptop. But now I am not using it. my laptop got infected when I tried the bitcoin generator software which promises 1 btc if you pay 0.06 btc. After that what I used to do is when ever I copy the btc address, I just copy half of the address first and then paste it and after that copy the next half and paste it. Or I used to add extra words on the right side of the address before copying and after pasting, I delete the extra word .

What a Great idea! This is the proper solution to me . I like your solution. Thank you

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Yeah I also had the same problem in my laptop. But now I am not using it. my laptop got infected when I tried the bitcoin generator software which promises 1 btc if you pay 0.06 btc. After that what I used to do is when ever I copy the btc address, I just copy half of the address first and then paste it and after that copy the next half and paste it. Or I used to add extra words on the right side of the address before copying and after pasting, I delete the extra word .

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Quote from: jkoin on October 18, 2017, 03:48:09 AM

Wow. What a news. Thank you for creating the topic on the forum. This is very useful information. I will be extremely attentive further. And I advise you to cheat the computer from various garbage. It can accumulate a lot and in such places that you will not find. Shocked

This virus has been in existence years ago, I don't know why you guys still haven't heard of this copy paste virus.

So its everyone's responsibility to keep your computer safe and not to click anything you see online. And to have a updated antivirus. You can check this previous thread:

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/copy-paste-virus-for-bitcoin-users-beware-1841658

Just be careful. Those hackers are really targeting crypto's more than ever. Better yet do a re-format just to be sure. And it you are getting a anti-virus, I recommend Kaspersky.

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Quote from: superhelper on October 16, 2017, 10:37:10 PM

Suddenly i notice that my pc is affected by bitcoin copy paste virus! When i copy my btc address it paste another address. Please give me any solution if you known. Feeling very risky for this virus! Shocked

I have encountered a problem like you are a form of stealing property through address if you do not pay attention. You may have downloaded some software and it has a virus. You should reinstall the operating system and stop downloading the free software if you do not want to lose money.

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Can anyone who has been affected by the virus post the address it is trying to use so we can have a look on the blockchain to see how many BTC are moving to the addresses to gauge an idea of how big an issue it is?

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Wow. What a news. Thank you for creating the topic on the forum. This is very useful information. I will be extremely attentive further. And I advise you to cheat the computer from various garbage. It can accumulate a lot and in such places that you will not find. Shocked

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free antivirus are good but i would like to ask to the OP if he tried the iso file i've pointed out couple of post back.
Instead of using free antivirus, i would suggest you to activate and keep updated the embedded Windows Defender, so far it's the best piece of software you can find to protect your pc, it works flawlessly without any issue even on old machines.

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Quote from: superhelper on October 17, 2017, 06:23:24 AM

Quote from: Kakmakr on October 17, 2017, 12:36:55 AM

The commercial Anti-virus software with Malware protection can detect and kill most of these infections. Our IT department use a variety of commercially available anti-virus software like Kaspersky and Trend and McAfee and all of them destroy most of these infections.

The FREE Anti-virus software like AVAST has also been used to eliminate some of the nasty things that are doing the rounds.

Hope this is helpful. If everything fails, use a bootable version of the Tails OS to boot your computer and then do your Bitcoin things in a clean OS environment.

I don't use any commercial anti-virus software. I used many antivirus and malware protection free version, such as Avast, Avira, malwarebyt, etc. but i did not find out any solution of this problem.

Just stop downloading random stuff and visiting websites you don't trust. You can get by without a antivirus but they are always recommended for extra precautions.

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Quote from: superhelper on October 17, 2017, 06:17:21 AM

Quote from: jseverson on October 17, 2017, 02:37:49 AM

Woah, it's good that you noticed it pasted a different address. Please be careful. If you have been affected by something like this then you could have other stuff in your computer, such as a keylogger. Run different antiviruses and see if that helps.

Other than that, I suggest you consider using Linux. Ubuntu, in particular, is easy to install and is really easy to use. You can run it alongside Windows as well. It's not bulletproof, but these kinds of viruses can't penetrate it easily.

Can i use Linux and windows same time in my pc? I don't know how to use both at a same time!

This tutorial might help you setting this up https://www.google.com.ph/amp/s/www.pcworld.com/article/252939/installing_windows_and_linux_on_the_same_computer.amp.html hope you fix issues soon

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Quote from: Kakmakr on October 17, 2017, 12:36:55 AM

The commercial Anti-virus software with Malware protection can detect and kill most of these infections. Our IT department use a variety of commercially available anti-virus software like Kaspersky and Trend and McAfee and all of them destroy most of these infections.

The FREE Anti-virus software like AVAST has also been used to eliminate some of the nasty things that are doing the rounds.

Hope this is helpful. If everything fails, use a bootable version of the Tails OS to boot your computer and then do your Bitcoin things in a clean OS environment.

I don't use any commercial anti-virus software. I used many antivirus and malware protection free version, such as Avast, Avira, malwarebyt, etc. but i did not find out any solution of this problem.

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Quote from: jseverson on October 17, 2017, 02:37:49 AM

Woah, it's good that you noticed it pasted a different address. Please be careful. If you have been affected by something like this then you could have other stuff in your computer, such as a keylogger. Run different antiviruses and see if that helps.

Other than that, I suggest you consider using Linux. Ubuntu, in particular, is easy to install and is really easy to use. You can run it alongside Windows as well. It's not bulletproof, but these kinds of viruses can't penetrate it easily.

Can i use Linux and windows same time in my pc? I don't know how to use both at a same time!

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Quote from: NeuroticFish on October 17, 2017, 02:45:51 AM

Quote from: superhelper on October 16, 2017, 10:37:10 PM

Suddenly i notice that my pc is affected by bitcoin copy paste virus! When i copy my btc address it paste another address. Please give me any solution if you known. Feeling very risky for this virus! Shocked

I assume that you are on Windows.
Download AVIRA rescue system (you can do this even from the infected PC!) and burn it to a CD.
Then boot from the CD and disinfect your system. It has English interface too which you have to select by hand, since when I've use it, it used to start in German :-/

The AVIRA link is https://www.avira.com/en/download/product/avira-rescue-system
There are other rescue systems, you can google for them. Kaspersky is slow imho, but here it is: https://support.kaspersky.com/4162

Disclaimer: my computers were never infected yet with this particular virus, so I don't know which of the rescue system actually cleans it (and how good).

I already used avast and avira both antivirus. after scanning all viruses have been deleted but it could not solve it!

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