How can I trust an altcoin when...

[Miracal]

Why not try the top altcoins? At least they are accepted by most ppl and the market. The dev team is still active. We have more chance to have some earning.

[thebenjamincode]

well the one that i use and trust is ziftr coin. i also mine this coin

[zeeshsnrehman2]

LTC, NXT... besides i dont see any. oh probably CyberCoin if they are still alive.

[testz]

BitShares, consider to do your own research:
https://bitsharestalk.org
http://wiki.bitshares.org

[shit coin]

Why not try the top altcoins? At least they are accepted by most ppl and the market. The dev team is still active. We have more chance to have some earning.

+1

The bottom alt coins are usually the ones that will die soon and become worthless.

[Febo]

I wanted to play around with some altcoins but many of the main websites are sketch at best.  For example when checking out UltraCoin, their recommended miner has spyware in it.  What altcoins can you trust?

Sometimes miners have "false positive" something when you check them with antivirus programs. But they are just built that way that antivirus thinks so.
Best for you is to take some time and follow coins and their communities. With time you will find out what is their intention.

[Rico Suave]

You can get a virus from any wallet or miner software. People will try hack sites to upload a malicious version and people frequently try to post them on here to try dupe people into downloading them. This is why I don't really bother with new alts are they're largely a waste of time anyway/

[pooya87]

I wanted to play around with some altcoins but many of the main websites are sketch at best.  For example when checking out UltraCoin, their recommended miner has spyware in it.  What altcoins can you trust?

never download any file from any of unknown or new altcoins that just came out, unless you know programming and can check the code yourself.

if you want to invest or have an altcoin's wallet you can always make an address on an exchanger, although it is not recommended to keep money on an exchanger, but it is safer to download an unknown altcoin's wallet.

another way is to make a virtual machine on you computer, with a program like virtualbox. this way you can protect your system from any malware. you still have to be careful though.

also you can mostly trust altcoins that are old and have a huge number of users, that way you have lower chance of getting malwares.

[Hollingsworth]

Unless its been established for a while, and not significantly premined /instamined, and actively supported by devs and its community... I wouldn't trust it.

H.