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Since i,m uncertain and naturally paranoid i thought it would be a good idea to ask here what the easiest and safest way is to backup a wallet.
Also is there any tool available to protect against wallet theft besides the be careful and check this and that posts?

Beside the paranoid ideas of only use a clean installation, don't use USB flash drive because they can be infected etc, just encrypt your wallet and copy the wallet.dat file to a flash drive or external hard drive and you'll be fine. But as always, if you're not really sure what you're doing, begin with a small amount of BTC in your wallet for testing.

Easy. Encrypt your wallet and then back it up. If your wallet software doesn't have a feature that allows you to back up and encrypt your wallet, you need to get different software.

Thanks for the help i'll do the encryption.
Is it easy to see which altcoins are a scam as an extra question.

What you mean, altcoins software is copy of Bitcoin software, you can encrypt altcoin wallets as well...

Scam coins? Sadly if you look hard enough I think most (pre mine-insta mine-scam start-etc) may fall under that if you scrutinize enough.
Theres a few (http://altcoins.com/scamcoins (http://altcoins.com/scamcoins))sites but beware of biasness  ::)

the best tool available to protect  your wallet is to encrypt that

What i mean is that i sometimes see a new altcoin and people right away post its a scam.
How do they know or what do they see that they classify it as a scam?
For example the turbocoin...the first post i see something about scam wallet.
I saw this with a lot of other new coins that quickly turn toward saying its a scam.