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Title: Beware: new address shapeshift malware found!
Post by: Yle725 on March 24, 2018, 10:01:16 AM
Hello, I am here to invite you to pay attention whenever you send your address to someone for a payment.

Yesterday, I found a virus in my PC that my antivirus software didn't found: when I copy-pasted my address to receve a payment, the address pasted was actually different from the copied one.

What happened is that someone written a malware that found whenever you copy an address and replace it with his one.

Be careful!


Title: Re: Beware: new address shapeshift malware found!
Post by: acha1217 on March 24, 2018, 11:11:18 AM
Hello, I am here to invite you to pay attention whenever you send your address to someone for a payment.

Yesterday, I found a virus in my PC that my antivirus software didn't found: when I copy-pasted my address to receve a payment, the address pasted was actually different from the copied one.

What happened is that someone written a malware that found whenever you copy an address and replace it with his one.

Be careful!
Thanks for warned us! I want to add little of my knowledge at this thread,
Before do transaction or anything which use Cryptocurrency address, that's is :
• Is very recommended to check and make it sure if the address is right.
• Never download anything at your pc which you use it for transaction.
• Never interested to enter to the some site which offers you some interesting.
I hope more peoples will be carefully when browsing at internet, because nothing is safe, but you can make it safer by follow the rules.

And how about you? are you remember what is your activity before you found that virus?
maybe you can add it here to make us more carefully, because so many trick used for crime activity like this, and maybe we don't know how they do it.
thank you.