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Bitcoin => Bitcoin Discussion => Topic started by: relative on June 16, 2011, 02:10:36 PM



Title: Bitcoin malware
Post by: relative on June 16, 2011, 02:10:36 PM
looks like someone identified malware than steals your wallet.dat, with only few scanners detecting it:

http://www.virustotal.com/file-scan/report.html?id=c7976118f0a8e1b7046f49718b5f49933db582d72adf6d78e1d4efc043ec6377-1308227137


Title: Re: Bitcoin malware
Post by: adrian33 on June 16, 2011, 02:57:50 PM
In my blog stats, I've had terms "wallet.dat virus" wallet.dat steal" "steal wallet.dat" "wallet.dat stealing" "wallet.dat location" "free wallet.dat bitcoin" "Where is the wallet.dat file"

- the most common of all terms by far being simply "wallet.dat"


Title: Re: Bitcoin malware
Post by: flug on June 16, 2011, 03:25:25 PM
Even if you do nothing else for security, rename your wallet.dat file to something else when the Bitcoin client is not running.