Well, ain't this motherfuckin' special! I waited till the all clear prior to downloading the file and unzipping it. Now, I learn that that wasn't a good idea.
What am I up against here, guys?
If you just unzipped it you should be fine. Just don't open the .exe or .pdf
Too late! I opened the CV-Mark_Karpeles...... one. I guess that explains why the the page deal for blank.
Now what? Besides any wallets that a person may have stored on their computer, of which is not the case with me, luckily, can the malware perform any other tasks like sniff for keystrokes, passwords, etc. I truly don't know anything on this regard, that's why I had 1,132 BTC stored on InstaWallet last year, because the general consensus is that they could be trusted.
It's also why I told a guy here in Sandwich, IL, that Bitcoinica was okay, so he put in $10K USD (I have strong reason to believe that's the correct figure considering the sources, though he claims it's a lot more)--because I trusted them. I told the guy not to use Mt Gox, so he didn't. Guess what happened? Sick!
But I digress, and look forward to an answer to the earlier question in this post.
Thanks in advance, from me and any others that the answers may help.