Copy-Paste Virus For Bitcoin Users -- Beware!!! - page 2.

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Quote from: coinfast on May 31, 2017, 03:32:41 PM

Quote from: jonpande on May 31, 2017, 01:20:32 PM

I also experienced this on my laptop, although only 0.01 total losses. but from the events, I learned to be more careful and always checks resetting to 3 times the wallet address we want to transfer funds.

This virus also ever attacks my laptop because I Download software which are offering you free Bitcoins and I need to reinstall windows just to remove the virus. My advice you don't Download any software which are offering you free Bitcoins as this are all hacking.

I can't believe that people are still greedy enough to download such software. There is no such thing as a free lunch. The very fact that the software offers you free bitcoin should have made you suspicious.

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Quote from: bohr on May 31, 2017, 06:13:50 PM

Quote from: cryptocoinplay on March 25, 2017, 02:12:37 AM

Recently There's a Virus I am victim of it and some of my friends, clients etc are affected too. This is called Copy-Paste Virus.
Please be careful while you paste a BTC address or Copy an Address.

The virus works like-- You copied a BTC address to send and while you paste it, It changed to other address and the funds sends to other account.

The virus is kind of old, but at the same time it is always good for a remainder so newbies get to know of the risk that are out there especially if you use insecure systems like windows, it is better to use some other OS instead of Linux when we are talking about money.

Its my first time knowing this and have never experienced it fortunately. Though I practice myself to look up the address first before giving it to someone for payment since I'm kinda want to be sure to the money or Bitcoin I have and not to be wasted or to be send to other address. A good practice is to look for the first and last part of the address and might as well consider looking in the middle just to be sure which will not take a lot of time.

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Its is always safe to double check the address whenever sending bitcoin. First, transactions cannot be retracted, so you cannot make mistakes on sending on the right address. With virus or not, it should be the practice to double or triple check all information before sending. It only takes a minute or less.

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Quote from: coinfast on May 31, 2017, 03:32:41 PM

Quote from: jonpande on May 31, 2017, 01:20:32 PM

I also experienced this on my laptop, although only 0.01 total losses. but from the events, I learned to be more careful and always checks resetting to 3 times the wallet address we want to transfer funds.

This virus also ever attacks my laptop because I Download software which are offering you free Bitcoins and I need to reinstall windows just to remove the virus. My advice you don't Download any software which are offering you free Bitcoins as this are all hacking.

Nah, that's right. Same goes for downloading cracked software or games. There's always a hidden purpose behind free software especially those which offer free money. And many of the purposes is to steal your data and BTC.
By the time being and until now. I've rarely heard this case anymore. However, there must be someone or some people who're facing this problem but doesn't have the intention to reveal it to public. The best way is to keep your security up to date.

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Quote from: cryptocoinplay on March 25, 2017, 02:12:37 AM

Recently There's a Virus I am victim of it and some of my friends, clients etc are affected too. This is called Copy-Paste Virus.
Please be careful while you paste a BTC address or Copy an Address.

The virus works like-- You copied a BTC address to send and while you paste it, It changed to other address and the funds sends to other account.

The virus is kind of old, but at the same time it is always good for a remainder so newbies get to know of the risk that are out there especially if you use insecure systems like windows, it is better to use some other OS instead of Linux when we are talking about money.

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Quote from: BarbieCasino on May 31, 2017, 03:50:29 PM

Oh that is really a bad thing. I often copy my address and do not check and trust on the system but now I will check again and again all of the digits of my address as I do not want to lose my money because of that virus.

I have always made it a habit that i always double check my address usually first four and last four characters of the address, but does this only get to a specific wallet or maybe type of add like a vanity address?

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But I hope that my computer will not get that virus.
Thanks you for telling us about that thing.

This is my first time hearing about such a virus and just in case my pc or anybodies pc is affected how do we get rid of it??

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Fast question, so how is the most common way my machine gets infected with this virus? Is this standard email/ malicious popup virus?
Or it is being distributed via some unusual way? Specific software, service, website?

I always double or triple check my addresses before sharing my address, how similar fake address can be to my original one?

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Oh that is really a bad thing. I often copy my address and do not check and trust on the system but now I will check again and again all of the digits of my address as I do not want to lose my money because of that virus. But I hope that my computer will not get that virus.
Thanks you for telling us about that thing.

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Quote from: coinfast on May 31, 2017, 03:32:41 PM

Quote from: jonpande on May 31, 2017, 01:20:32 PM

I also experienced this on my laptop, although only 0.01 total losses. but from the events, I learned to be more careful and always checks resetting to 3 times the wallet address we want to transfer funds.

This virus also ever attacks my laptop because I Download software which are offering you free Bitcoins and I need to reinstall windows just to remove the virus. My advice you don't Download any software which are offering you free Bitcoins as this are all hacking.

That's the problem guys, you shouldn't not be attracted by those so called "free bitcoins" and there's a requirement of downloading something. Because that software is allowing those hackers to enter your system and it's just their front regarding the free bitcoin but they are the ones that will take advantage of you, so be careful on what you are downloading.

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Quote from: coinfast on May 31, 2017, 03:32:41 PM

Quote from: jonpande on May 31, 2017, 01:20:32 PM

I also experienced this on my laptop, although only 0.01 total losses. but from the events, I learned to be more careful and always checks resetting to 3 times the wallet address we want to transfer funds.

This virus also ever attacks my laptop because I Download software which are offering you free Bitcoins and I need to reinstall windows just to remove the virus. My advice you don't Download any software which are offering you free Bitcoins as this are all hacking.

In the first place, why you believe that there is a software that offering free Bitcoins? It's impossible that there is a lefit software like that. Work for bitcoin not to earn for free by installing a software. Even some of the newbies knows that thing is a crap. That's why think before you click.

In case of copypaste, it should be obvious that people always checked the pasted address before proceeding. How come they click send without any precautions or double cheking so that the address will be correct. Huh

That is my usual behaviour not because of hacking but Im making sure that I pasted the address correctly without missing letters or numbers.

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Quote from: jonpande on May 31, 2017, 01:20:32 PM

I also experienced this on my laptop, although only 0.01 total losses. but from the events, I learned to be more careful and always checks resetting to 3 times the wallet address we want to transfer funds.

This virus also ever attacks my laptop because I Download software which are offering you free Bitcoins and I need to reinstall windows just to remove the virus. My advice you don't Download any software which are offering you free Bitcoins as this are all hacking.

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Quote from: HaXX0R1337 on May 31, 2017, 02:59:49 PM

Quote from: Celsiuss on March 31, 2017, 06:07:48 PM

Wow, that is actually pretty clever. I imagine most people wouldn't even notice the address changing when pasting. A serious malware right there.
Some of you say to use Linux because it's safer, for me myself the main reason I don't use Linux is because of games. Also Skype which I use daily (Skype for Linux is seriously outdated).

You cannot escape from these viruses even if you are using Linux based operating system and the only solution is to have an updated antivirus software ,it is not a new virus and it was frustrating people for a long time and now hackers have found a way to change the wallet address provided and they are targeting least secured machines.

Hardware wallets do a lot to mitigate this, my KeepKey shows the address multiple times during the transaction process. I've just gotten used to checking the address on the source page and the address on the KeepKey. It's one of the drawbacks of bitcoin; the level of security required to maintain a wallet with any decent amount of funds is beyond the average consumer.

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Quote from: Celsiuss on March 31, 2017, 06:07:48 PM

Wow, that is actually pretty clever. I imagine most people wouldn't even notice the address changing when pasting. A serious malware right there.
Some of you say to use Linux because it's safer, for me myself the main reason I don't use Linux is because of games. Also Skype which I use daily (Skype for Linux is seriously outdated).

You cannot escape from these viruses even if you are using Linux based operating system and the only solution is to have an updated antivirus software ,it is not a new virus and it was frustrating people for a long time and now hackers have found a way to change the wallet address provided and they are targeting least secured machines.

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Quote from: moooonu on May 31, 2017, 12:23:10 PM

Every time hackers get a way to get into your pc and try to do some malicious dirty work and try to rob people from all around the world in each possible way. Always keep your antivirus updated to ensure you are getting best security possible for your computer.

It is a java script based virus and the only way to get infected is when you visit a rogue website and that it could inject that virus,so always make sure that the sites you visit are legit and if you are using a good anti virus and antimalware along with a good firewall you could be safe from these sort of attacks and make sure you use legit softwares and not pirated ones.

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I also experienced this on my laptop, although only 0.01 total losses. but from the events, I learned to be more careful and always checks resetting to 3 times the wallet address we want to transfer funds.

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Every time hackers get a way to get into your pc and try to do some malicious dirty work and try to rob people from all around the world in each possible way. Always keep your antivirus updated to ensure you are getting best security possible for your computer.

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Quote from: Taki on March 25, 2017, 02:27:21 AM

That's the first time I hear of such kind of computer virus. Thank you for the information, from now I will check the addresses where I send Bitcoin and other money carefully.

I heard also its first time such type of peculiar computer virus, I love the way, where share and learning process existing..that's the spirit. So we have to be more careful about sending address. But it has to be fixed, because many of bitcoin user don't have any idea about it..

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This is the first time I heard of that. It is good to have you posted about the virus here in the forum. This way we will be aware that there is a possibility that the bitcoin address will be changed if we our machine is infected by that virus. How can we remove this virus if we are infected btw?

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Well there's a virus also in bitcoin whether it's been there since the beginning of bitcoin in darknet and other hack forums.
What to buy code so that I do not get the virus and guarantee its security up to 99%.

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Quote from: cryptocoinplay on March 25, 2017, 02:12:37 AM

Recently There's a Virus I am victim of it and some of my friends, clients etc are affected too. This is called Copy-Paste Virus.
Please be careful while you paste a BTC address or Copy an Address.

The virus works like-- You copied a BTC address to send and while you paste it, It changed to other address and the funds sends to other account.

http://s8.postimg.org/pxq8qv1k5/screenshot_23.png

yes I just lost 1 BTC this virus comes from NICEHASH

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