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Title: So I emergency system restore every so often due to encounterin embedded malware Post by: SeanArce on November 19, 2013, 10:27:25 AM I did this once when I had 50 PXC and I lost all of it
How do I continue to total system restore without losing the stuff in my wallet? Title: Re: So I emergency system restore every so often due to encounterin embedded malware Post by: Aswan on November 19, 2013, 10:28:37 AM I did this once when I had 50 PXC and I lost all of it How do I continue to total system restore without losing the stuff in my wallet? A combination of a deterministic wallet and a backup would work quite well. Armory provides that. Title: Re: So I emergency system restore every so often due to encounterin embedded malware Post by: SeanArce on November 19, 2013, 10:38:40 AM I did this once when I had 50 PXC and I lost all of it How do I continue to total system restore without losing the stuff in my wallet? A combination of a deterministic wallet and a backup would work quite well. Armory provides that. Is a deterministic wallet only for bitcoin or for alt coins as well? I used the Phenix wallet on the miner. Maybe that was the problem. I know wallets are online like block chain. How do I backup? Title: Re: So I emergency system restore every so often due to encounterin embedded malware Post by: franky1 on November 19, 2013, 03:38:37 PM 1) stop using the computer that stores your "wealth" as a computer to download crap onto.
EG if your going to download "free" games, videos, etc expect malware 2) if your getting malware it only takes one time for a trojan to grab your private key. no matter how often you restore your computer after that, if you continue using the same key your funds will get swept at some point. so use new private keys. for al you know the malware may already have your privkeys and is just sitting on them wating for you to receive suitable amount of funds to sweep from you. 3)if you dont use the same key already then send all your funds to a newly created pub/private key that you have wrote down and saved in a USB key as a text file (triple checking the 'spelling')(paperwallet principles). then after restore enter the privkey into the new wallet. 4) maybe invest in a raspberry Pi as a cheap method to getting a 2nd PC that is used SOLELY for your 'wealth'. |