I did a scan upfront on total virus, but it says bitcoinminer which was in my eyes not harmfull. After the hack I installed trend micro antivirus and it says trojan.
Guess I have to find another hobby.
I'm sorry to hear that. You just scared me into doing everything I'm suppose to do with these coins.
1. Encrypt wallet with password generated by Keepass. Then unlock for staking only.
2. Back up wallet to DVD.
3. Run all new programs in sandboxie, until I trust them. I may start running my browser under sandboxie too. I hate the internet. You have to go through a million steps, to make yourself more secure. Then some hacker comes up with ways to circumvent them all. (sigh)
OR use linux ... or a vps that is linux based ...
i feel for you ...
this is the reason i moved completely away from windows ... and i mean completely ...
it wont be that difficult to make a dual boot system or setup a small machine with a large hdd for all the wallets and have that running under linux ...
my own desktop is fedora 21 x64 - and that thing just runs ... without any backhanded issues with ANYONE hacking into it ...
i have to admit - there is a few times where you will get frustrated due to the lack of support that some devs will refuse to put in for a linux build - but believe me when i say that there is NOTHING like peace of mind for your coins ...
its not completely failsafe - the weakest link here is the us the user - but its miles ahead of any windows insecurities ...
still do backups and make sure your system is secure - that goes without saying ...
a small computer with a large hdd ( for the blockchains - depending on how many coin wallets you may have ) and ( in my case ) fedora installed is all i need to stop thieves dead in their tracks ... and that is not even including the LONG encryption password i have for all my wallets ...
small advice - for piece of mind ...
#crysx
Even with that, can't some hacker just generate a rainbow table? They would compare their rainbow table to the blockchain, and when they get a match, just import the private key into their wallet and steal those coins? Or would that be too unwieldy?
the security that im referring to is to minimize the security risk - not leave it completely open like windows 'normally' does ...
what you are referring to is quite a colourful ( yes - there is a pun indeed ) way of stealing keys - let alone coins ... but the chnaces of a good hacker trying to get into a small wallet with that form hack is almost unheard of ... it does happen - but SO unlikely that its considered non-existent ...
if a hacker wants to get into your system - and the hacker is one hell of good one - he / she will get in one way or another ...
but to go to lengths like that for a few thousand ( let alone a few hundred ) coins that really are not worth the time to try - is another story altogther ...
so - the answer to your question ... it IS possible - but highly unlikely in this circumstance ... there is a good reason why the keys are the length and difficulty that they are
...
no mention that the earlier unfortunate situation was a wallet of 100000btc - then you have a very different situation ...
but even then - if it were that simple - it would have already been done ...
minimization of risk is the key here ...
a secured wallet with a difficult password in a non-standard OS inside an application ( the wallet itself ) that has to built from the ground up ...
all of this sitting behind a secured firewall in a non-standardized setting ( such as windows ) is not an easy task to get through ... not at all ...
my setup is very different again - where all the wallets sit in an encrypted secure srver in scientific linux ( yes - im a redhat fella - so shoot me ) ... not many people have this type of facilitated security - but you can definitely get a decent secure enviromnet on a small computer with linux installed and the wallets inside that machine ...
minimize the risk - thats all im saying
...
#crysx