SCAMMER / VIRUS WARNING: legitnick's giveaway is a VIRUS

[🏰 TradeFortress 🏰]

If you have visited the link in legitnick's "giveaway", it's actually a Java drive by! The executable also contains viruses.

If you have ran the executable, download Microsoft Security Essentials (http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security-essentials-download - free download, good quality AV) and then change your passwords on all of your sites. To be secure, you'd want to format your computer.

[rme]

We are discussing that here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=249625.0

[nottm28]

Thanks for the warning, anyway i don't have Java installed on my system and by default javascript is disabled for every site so i think that i'm safe for now

Windows ships with java by default - unless you have already manually removed it.

Open a command prompt and type:

java -version

Then you'll know if you have java. Also, disabling javascript would not have protected against this attack. The attacker was using a java applet - and if you click 'Allow' you have given the attacker full access to download and run any file he want's on your machine.

[nottm28]

Actually, you are correct it doesn't ship with windows - but some vendors do pre-install java (like on my dell).