The team at steps have a stay safe active for online wallets for this exact reason.
Take a look, they are doing some good work. Stops you needing to download wallets.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/annsteps-lets-make-a-new-altcoin-environment-1173385
Topic: Warning! 1 or more of these new altcoin wallets is installing malicious software (Read 594 times)
December 22, 2015, 01:20:57 AM
December 22, 2015, 12:56:15 AM
mshta.exe is a legit windows file but of course anything could be named like that. Always run wallets in a sandbox where wallets doesn't have write privileges in system folders and even read privileges for other wallets and important files/drives.
You could check when the file was created and compare that to when your wallets were downloaded.
You could check when the file was created and compare that to when your wallets were downloaded.
December 22, 2015, 12:56:02 AM
Have you checked all your wallets with virustotal?
December 22, 2015, 12:44:03 AM
You could post this thread any time in the last year and it will always have been true
December 22, 2015, 12:38:08 AM
Noticed my bandwith was being sucked up. Checked running processes and found Microsoft Skype and Microsoft html application host(mchta.exe). I'm fairly certain these came from here as I mainly just use this pc for altcoin mining and minor web browsing. Wish I knew which coin wallet it was. Check for these processes and be safe in the future guys! Off to format and reinstall windows.
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