Wickedsick: It sounds like it may have been a significant amount to you. You'll get over it, you'll save up & get more than those funds back. Perhaps most importantly, you'll practice better security in the future. The geniuses here can always answer questions.
When I was 19 I counted cards (blackjack). I made $6,000 my first night. Made another ~$20,000 over a few months. My girlfriend left me & I got super depressed and somehow she ended up with $5,000. I made more playing video poker, a jacks-or-better machine had 99.54% return playing perfect strategy, with the players club benefits it was about 100.6%. So I recklessly didn't calculate the bankroll requirements & played $50 a spin. I was up $6,000 due to getting quads several times. I lost the $6,000 then another $16,000. It was a horrible feeling. Catastrophic, foolish series of mistakes & I barely had anything left. I was practically broke after months of efforts. I could have used that cash to wander around South America or Asia for 3 years. The point is, a few months later I had moved on, & now years later it's just a memory & a lesson.
Money is only a minuscule element in the fortune of existing.
I would like to know if your wallet was encrypted. A virus would need to be able to extract your .dat files & have it sent to them (that part is probably fairly easy for malware). If it was encrypted though they'd need to devote some heavy computer time to crack it, depending on its entropy. If the malware included a keylogger I suppose the passwords could be obtained that way. Download a trial of ESET-NOD to see if it identifies anything.
Zelig: What is the significance of that picture?
I was pretty wasted last night... That might be "moving forward" or "follow me". That's me on my way to visit Vatican city - Spring 2014. Certainly, I do not think "Vatican City" or "Catholicism" is the "Promised Land"...
On that trip, I was carrying my bitcoin wallet and constantly on the look-out for places to spend bitcoin. I found a small cafe in Bologna, Italy that accepted Bitcoin. I remain "friends" on Facebook with the owner - who has since gone on to open other small cafes (But, we don't really exchange much other than, "likes", on each others pics.)
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