Separate Computer for Bitcoin/Financial Information vs Personal?

[coynedterm]

i think you are addicted to see porn .
i will onky say that keep your professional and personal pc separate seprate . because many pirn sites causes carder scam . if you get scammed than you can't tell who steal your deatil .

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[wearehatetherules]

Flash player is very vulnerable and most of these sites uses this as an option stream contents. So it's good to have a virtual machine or a separate system for accessing these kind of stuff with nothing personal.

[yayayo]

It makes a lot of sense to physically separate financial internet activities from personal activities if your personal activities come with an increased risk of malware infection. It's advisable in general to make any financial dealings in a high security environment. Especially Bitcoin users are a very attractive target for malware, because funds can be drained directly and quickly transferred / mixed. Separating activities also improves your privacy.

Today, you can surf the web using a cheap single-board computer like the RaspPI or one of its multiple clones. The investment of less than $50 bucks makes sense, if you consider that a security breach that exposes your financial information might cost you hundreds or thousands of $$$.

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[Sweetbtc]

i think you are addicted to see porn .
i will onky say that keep your professional and personal pc separate seprate . because many pirn sites causes carder scam . if you get scammed than you can't tell who steal your deatil .

I have a dedicated Mac for my Bitcoin/Altcoin information.  It’s exclusive e separated 
My personal information is in one normal PC.

[viking02]

heres the thing.  I plan to use bitcoin, play online poker, log into bank account with my main computer.


I was told in another forum that if i create a Virtual Machine, then any virus i get will not go to the other computer which is my main computer.  Is anyone here familiar with this?  I was told its like creating another computer in the same computer.  When you look at porn and download porn and sketchy links, you do this with the other OS in the system.  Once you are done, then you log out and then go into your main computer.  A few people mentioned this as well and said if you do it this, its close to impossible to get hacked.


They mentioned you are wasting money buying a new computer since you could just set up a Virtual Machine on it and its basically the same thing.  If thats the case, i obviously would prefer this.  They said any virus i get on the other OS won't infect the main OS. 

[bitdumper]

these informations are geneeally safe too see and download but very less sites are there which tries to hack your pc. you can take take precausions by just making your antivirus up to date

[useless4]

i think you are addicted to see porn .
i will onky say that keep your professional and personal pc separate seprate . because many pirn sites causes carder scam . if you get scammed than you can't tell who steal your deatil .

either way you should hold bitcoins in seperate computer in order to avoid it being stolen by someone

[Yakamoto]

i think you are addicted to see porn .
i will onky say that keep your professional and personal pc separate seprate . because many pirn sites causes carder scam . if you get scammed than you can't tell who steal your deatil .

either way you should hold bitcoins in seperate computer in order to avoid it being stolen by someone

It is better a large majority of the time to have your Bitcoin stored offline so that you have less of a chance to lose all of your Bitcoin in a virus gets on your computer, so having at least a separate storage device is basically a must-have.

[viking02]

when you say offline, u mean paper wallet?  The issue is i cannot do this as i do move bitcoins around.  I mean if you are storing bitcoin where you won't touch it for a long time its different.


I like to know does anyone here set a Virtual Machine and do this for porn.

[viking02]

Can someone here confirm that using a virtual machine will be fine and no need for 2nd computer?  Because my main computer will be using everything, bitcoin, online poker, bank login etc.  And of course downloading porn from a few sites.  The thing is those videos that i download, whether its on a good computer or very cheap computer, i will only download from users who have posted a ton of videos but most importantly, have an old registered date.  Such that if someone registered for an account not that long, i will most likely not download the video.  Thus even if it was a computer i dont use anymore, i won't do that since theres a very high chance there is a virus/trojan and then i have to have laptop formatted.


Thus only downloading videos from users that seem to post a lot.


The other thing is if i do buy another laptop, what laptop would you suggest?  I had thought how about a chromebook, cost less than $200.  The thing is i can always sell it back later for probably $80 later on?  However the one thing is im not sure if chromebook can play all videos or download everything because apparently it uses the web browser only?  Also its very slow and processor is slow.  Thus the best option would be having an old laptop you dont need anymore and use it.  Can someone here give me more feedback on this?  Because i have to order a new laptop soon if thats the case.  So if i get laptop, get chromebook or get a used laptop?  I think a laptop is much better since its more space as 16gb which probably is 14gb max on chromebook is very little space.  Now if someone here can tell me they use virtual machine and download everything porn torrents etc on it and dont have an issue, then i will do this.  But when you do this, if u do get virus on the Virutal Machine, you just shut it down and power back on?  Or you still have to format it? 

[Hazir]

having multiple antiviruses on your computer is not going to protect you more, it can obviously slow your computer and it also can cause some problems for you as they WILL interfere with each other's work.

as for your concerns, i told you before on this forum to start using cold storage. learn what linux is and download a distro that you like and use it as "live and without network access" and you will stay safer.

Multiple antiviruses are bad idea as you said it will interfere with each other. But having antivirus and anti-malware tool is recommended.
Currently I am using standard antivirus + Malwarebytes Antimalware, you can add other programs like ADW Cleaner to this combo as well.

[BrewMaster]

i am also struggling with a similar matters at hand because i am using Windows and we all know how many security holes are in windows but since i can not have another PC to just use as offline i am struggling to learn linux which is hard and i feel lost

any suggestions that doesn't involve me paying anything?

[darklus123]

before when i was not on to bitcoin i do some PTC sites before and the only platform i used before was paypal and yes we do the same i also do manage all those things in the same pc. But for now  that i'm on the bitcoin idustry i do still watch x videos but does not download anymore.

[viking02]

anyone else?

[Carlsen]

In my early times I did some faucet typing.
I used a seperate computer for that without any flash on it. I think it was a wise choice.
After I quit faucets the computer fas set up new and is now my experimetal machine. For programming and whatever comes in my mind.
My main computer is for everything that involves data about me. Managing bank account, ebay and so on.

[justspare]

I've never heard of anyone that uses two computers for daily tasks.

Hi.  What do you mean don't connect it to main network.  You mean dont allow that computer that watches porn to watch porn thorough my internet connection?  If so... you want me to get 2 internet connections?  One for porn... one for regular use?  Isn't that a bit excessive?


Yes so im looking for advice for anyone who knows a lot about this.  I mean im sure all of you guys watch porn.  But unless you all stream it... then its no issue.  But im sure a lot of you click on pics etc so even that takes precaution. 


Its very scary to have bitcoin wallet get hacked and thus i been very careful with my main laptop. 

There are viruses that can do that, and if you want to be completely secure, then getting another internet connection might not be a bad thing.

[davis196]

I have a laptop that i do everything on.  Basically use it for anything financial related such as bank accounts, electrum wallet, bitcoin wallet etc.  I stream youtube, watch sites etc so far with no issue.  My issue though is i like to watch porn.  Now i do watch porn through those streaming sites like xvideos, porhhub etc which doesn't seem to give me any issues.


The other thing though is i like to download porn from sites online.  Reason is because these videos you cannot stream it through pornhub, xvideo etc.  The other thing is i like to click on preview images of porn pictures.  I always done this without any issue.  But i was told that clicking on links are not really safe since a porn link for an image could cause a virus.



Basically the big main sites.  I was told in those forums... links for porns and images are usually very safe as long as the posters who posted it are long time posters and have a lot of likes by other members.  I believe they said a lot of these links are looked at by the site in case there is a virus, it would get deleted.  Of course someone who posted the video that is safe could later edit it etc.



I assume anyone here that has a laptop that does that bitcoin and financial information... you have separate computer for that... and one for your porn and other stuff?  By other stuff that means like downloading torrents etc.  I read someone mentioned that he downloaded some video game that was pirated and all his bitcoins got lost because of that.  That the uploader put a trojan/virus etc.  I don't download any torrents at all.  I do however like to download porn videos from depositfiles, rapidshare etc.  I also do make sure those posters are long time posters.  But i also like to download certain videos in another forums where even though they maybe long term posters, i dont know if videos are safe or not.   I have so far when downloaded those videos... haven't had an issue in a while with my laptop due to this.  Such that i use it for banking with no issue.


But i have not done this with a bitcoin wallet on my computer.  Does anyone here have advice on this?  I'm sure many of you like to download porn, click on images whether its porn or something else or download torrents etc.  Is it always a bad idea if you do this on your laptop where you have bitcoins stored?   I read any exe file is very bad.  Then again how would i even know a file is exe.  Couldnt it be another file but its really exe?


Also if this thread is not put in the right subforum, can it be put in the correct subforum?  I believe it does belong on bitcoin discussion though.

Just install a good anti-virus program and check your PC more often.

You can use a virtual machine or a sandboxed browser.Just doenlaod and install Sandboxie.

Bitcoin related malware can be really nasty.

[justspare]

I have a laptop that i do everything on.  Basically use it for anything financial related such as bank accounts, electrum wallet, bitcoin wallet etc.  I stream youtube, watch sites etc so far with no issue.  My issue though is i like to watch porn.  Now i do watch porn through those streaming sites like xvideos, porhhub etc which doesn't seem to give me any issues.


The other thing though is i like to download porn from sites online.  Reason is because these videos you cannot stream it through pornhub, xvideo etc.  The other thing is i like to click on preview images of porn pictures.  I always done this without any issue.  But i was told that clicking on links are not really safe since a porn link for an image could cause a virus.



Basically the big main sites.  I was told in those forums... links for porns and images are usually very safe as long as the posters who posted it are long time posters and have a lot of likes by other members.  I believe they said a lot of these links are looked at by the site in case there is a virus, it would get deleted.  Of course someone who posted the video that is safe could later edit it etc.



I assume anyone here that has a laptop that does that bitcoin and financial information... you have separate computer for that... and one for your porn and other stuff?  By other stuff that means like downloading torrents etc.  I read someone mentioned that he downloaded some video game that was pirated and all his bitcoins got lost because of that.  That the uploader put a trojan/virus etc.  I don't download any torrents at all.  I do however like to download porn videos from depositfiles, rapidshare etc.  I also do make sure those posters are long time posters.  But i also like to download certain videos in another forums where even though they maybe long term posters, i dont know if videos are safe or not.   I have so far when downloaded those videos... haven't had an issue in a while with my laptop due to this.  Such that i use it for banking with no issue.


But i have not done this with a bitcoin wallet on my computer.  Does anyone here have advice on this?  I'm sure many of you like to download porn, click on images whether its porn or something else or download torrents etc.  Is it always a bad idea if you do this on your laptop where you have bitcoins stored?   I read any exe file is very bad.  Then again how would i even know a file is exe.  Couldnt it be another file but its really exe?


Also if this thread is not put in the right subforum, can it be put in the correct subforum?  I believe it does belong on bitcoin discussion though.

Just install a good anti-virus program and check your PC more often.

You can use a virtual machine or a sandboxed browser.Just doenlaod and install Sandboxie.

Bitcoin related malware can be really nasty.

Even good anti-virus programs sometimes don't stop all the viruses. They definitely do help, but OP probably already has a anti-virus. Most people get one as soon as they purchase a computer.

[croutonhexagon]

Our computer in always vulnerable to hackers so it's best to way to keep separate computer for bitcoin/financial and  for personal. Having separate computer will make us secure at latest from hackers.

[noictib]

i will suggest you to keep seprate computer or pc system . because many porn sites are filled with junk of viurs and can steal your data . so keep separate system for separate business .