The recent security concerns related to Bitcoin gave me the idea to create a LiveCD where you can do safe transactions without worrying about being infected by the trojan infostealer.Coinbit or being spied by anyone.

Features :
                                              -Use TrueCrypt to access your encrypted Wallet
                                              -If you wish you can surf the web anonymously with JonDoFox
                                              -You can use the client MegaIRC and join your favourite Bitcoin irc channel
                                              -You can also use the calculator to help you in your transactions
                                              -You can connect to the internet with OpenVPN (not yet implemented)
                                              -Block-chain already pre-loaded inside BitVault - you can manually update it
                                              -BitVault Wizard, easy step by step with almost no interaction from the user which install and configure
                                               the bitcoin client for you!




If you wish to know more about BitVault features, method of work and download link, please read this page : http://kittybomber.com/BitVault

I am also seeking volunteer to help me out with this project, read this page for more information : http://kittybomber.com/BitVault_dev


Please give me feedback and if you wish to see something implemented inside this LiveCD let me know!

EDIT:

-Added a new Bitcoin client support from coderrr : http://forum.mtgoxlive.com/showthread.php/11-Patching-The-Bitcoin-Client-To-Make-It-More-Anonymous
 - Please read this page if you wish to use this client http://www.kittybomber.com/config_guide

Feel free to donate : 1D5BjvQi7kGPUBpumWsN7kJ63hixEJcfFW

Since I cannot post this anywhere else yet...


Bitcoin recently became the target of Malware authors. This trojan infostealer.Coinbit will search for wallet.dat and then upload it via ftp. The attacker will then be able
to spend all of your bitcoins.

This is only the start of what's to come, I predict a much more widespread attack of this genre in the near future. This is why Bitcoin users and especially the one who are holding a large amount of coins need to worry about this issue and take every possible measures to secure their transactions environment.

The recent events gave me the idea to create BitVault LiveCD, with this LiveCD you will be able to do Bitcoin Transactions, chat on IRC, surf the web anonymously and soon to be able to use the OpenVPN client. Inside this secure environment, everything will be loaded inside your RAM and by using the BitVault Wizard you will be guided in the installation of the Bitcoin client and the process of decryption of your TrueCrypt container.

If you wish to read more about BitVault and how to use it please follow this link : http://www.kittybomber.com/BitVault

Is it safe to restore a wallet.dat into a fully loaded block chains by using -rescan option

Lets say I have two wallet, one for my savings and the other for day to day transactions.

I only used my savings wallet once for the creation, then I made a backup of it.

Now couple weeks or months later I want to restore it and buy some stuff.

Can I just place it in %appdata% where the block chains is already downloaded?