Topic: Tips so you don't get your coins stolen. - page 2. (Read 1828 times)
Put a really really long password for your bitcoin wallet (make sure you don't forget it).
Think the easiest solution is to have a dedicated (clean) pc for storing your coin that's never used for browsing the internet or downloading software. Best to store large amounts of bitcoin in paper wallets, just make sure you've printed them securely and be aware that certain printers store info of the documents they've printed.
1.Disable Flash on everything but youtube(or anything you deem safe)
2. Disable or delete Java.
3. Don't download cracked programs OR download only those older than 2012 or older.
4. Don't store your wallet on Dropbox.
Follow above steps, and you don't even need to run an anti-virus, which is btw, recommended. You can thank me when your 1btc you kept safe is worth $100k.
2. Disable or delete Java.
3. Don't download cracked programs OR download only those older than 2012 or older.
4. Don't store your wallet on Dropbox.
Follow above steps, and you don't even need to run an anti-virus, which is btw, recommended. You can thank me when your 1btc you kept safe is worth $100k.
5. Encrypt your wallet with a strong password, 10 - 15 chars in length with random characters. Do not store your wallet and password in the same storage
6. Install no-script addon to protect our computer from malicious scripts when visiting untrusted site
1. Checked, flashblock installed.
2. Checked.
3. Checked.
4. I used truecrypt to first encrypt my wallet file before putting it on dropbox.
5. Checked. Plus, my entire HDD is encrypted with truecrypt.
6. Checked.
Code:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=159424.0
This thread has helped me a lot, so I suggest reading this if you have any doubts. Email is horribly insecure. And most people don't have the option to have a second machine.
Indeed the email subsystem needs a total replacement. It is just utterly done for, finished! Seemingly the Idea behind Bitcoins was about inventing some sort of Postamps, to cool down SPAM delivery a bit.
On the second machine, you can use an USB stick with a tiny install of linux. One of the biggest flaws of Windows is it's strong ties into your harddisk. An operation system should not clink that much on a platform.
While I have some experience with Linux, the sheer majority of Bitcoin users (I'm not talking about miners where 1/2 know Linux) will only know Windows. Asking somebody to learn a foreign OS just to obtain security is asking too much.
There are Windows based alternatives that are well polished and more secure and versatile than the default Windows-QT. Windows-QT is still needed for people to run the nodes.
New users should spend a couple hours in here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=37.0
Email is horribly insecure. And most people don't have the option to have a second machine.
Indeed the email subsystem needs a total replacement. It is just utterly done for, finished! Seemingly the Idea behind Bitcoins was about inventing some sort of Postamps, to cool down SPAM delivery a bit.
On the second machine, you can use an USB stick with a tiny install of linux. One of the biggest flaws of Windows is it's strong ties into your harddisk. An operation system should not clink that much on a platform.
1.Disable Flash on everything but youtube(or anything you deem safe)
2. Disable or delete Java.
3. Don't download cracked programs OR download only those older than 2012 or older.
4. Don't store your wallet on Dropbox.
Follow above steps, and you don't even need to run an anti-virus, which is btw, recommended. You can thank me when your 1btc you kept safe is worth $100k.
2. Disable or delete Java.
3. Don't download cracked programs OR download only those older than 2012 or older.
4. Don't store your wallet on Dropbox.
Follow above steps, and you don't even need to run an anti-virus, which is btw, recommended. You can thank me when your 1btc you kept safe is worth $100k.
5. Encrypt your wallet with a strong password, 10 - 15 chars in length with random characters. Do not store your wallet and password in the same storage
6. Install no-script addon to protect our computer from malicious scripts when visiting untrusted site
Most important thing is not visiting suspicious sites/downloading suspicious files.
Dumb as it sounds, this is right. Got to be careful wit dem bitcorns.
You can encrypt your wallet.
Encrypting the wallet is good - but only if you can remember the password. The problem with this is that so many users come back 6 months later stating they forgot their password and need help brute forcing it.
Encryption via passphrase is also only safe if there are no keyloggers on the machine. If you have a high entropy 40 symbol passphrase and the keylogger captured all that - as simple wallet.dat stealing trojan can take all your coins.
To be safe the keys need to be kept offline --> cold storage.
I would say that the best advice is to simply don't make it known that you have a lot of bitcoin personally.
You should also keep your bitcoin stored on a computer that you use only for bitcoin, and you send yourself an email whenever you need to send bitcoin to a specific address.
You should also keep your bitcoin stored on a computer that you use only for bitcoin, and you send yourself an email whenever you need to send bitcoin to a specific address.
Not the best advice. Most of the people losing coins of their own local machine lose them through malware/trojans. They don't have to type a single thing on these forums but if they click and download too much stuff their coins are gone.
Email is horribly insecure. And most people don't have the option to have a second machine. For those that do you can make a cold wallet that will never see the light of day (no internet connection whatsoever) and you can send coins there and they can never be stolen short of somebody stealing your paper wallet at home. Even that you can protect with an M of N wallet - the knowledge is there on these forums, you need to read.
Encrypt your wallet and keep it in cold storage.
No stealing, FTW
No stealing, FTW
Most important thing is not visiting suspicious sites/downloading suspicious files.
You can encrypt your wallet.
I would say that the best advice is to simply don't make it known that you have a lot of bitcoin personally.
You should also keep your bitcoin stored on a computer that you use only for bitcoin, and you send yourself an email whenever you need to send bitcoin to a specific address.
You should also keep your bitcoin stored on a computer that you use only for bitcoin, and you send yourself an email whenever you need to send bitcoin to a specific address.
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1.Disable Flash on everything but youtube(or anything you deem safe)
2. Disable or delete Java.
3. Don't download cracked programs OR download only those older than 2012 or older.
4. Don't store your wallet on Dropbox.
Follow above steps, and you don't even need to run an anti-virus, which is btw, recommended. You can thank me when your 1btc you kept safe is worth $100k.
2. Disable or delete Java.
3. Don't download cracked programs OR download only those older than 2012 or older.
4. Don't store your wallet on Dropbox.
Follow above steps, and you don't even need to run an anti-virus, which is btw, recommended. You can thank me when your 1btc you kept safe is worth $100k.
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