Electrum sends coin to wrong address

[spiritglove]

Electrum recently sent 2 btc to an address I did not enter on the send coin page. The address my coin was sent to is not an address I have in any wallet I possess. I copied and pasted the wallet address directly from the wallet I was sending to on Localbitcoins, and they went to a wallet address I do not possess.
 Anybody have this problem before?

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[btchris]

Please read this, it probably answers your question: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Change

[shorena]

Please read this, it probably answers your question: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Change

If I may: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Electrum/Documentation#Change_Addresses

its a little more about Electrum while explaining the same principles

@OP should you not find the "missing" coins in one of your change addresses, consider trojan.

[torusJKL]

What operation system are you using and where did you download the electrum executable?

[spiritglove]

Where did I download the distribution. I don't remember but I wouldn't have used anything other than the actual electrum web page or if I used a third party it would have been a reputable third party, like Cnet. I was using Windows, at the time, I am using Unbuntu now. The Coin never showed in any of my wallets. I was at a public Wifi spot. Is there an android App that you can use to access a windows computer with?
 

[shorena]

Where did I download the distribution. I don't remember but I wouldn't have used anything other than the actual electrum web page or if I used a third party it would have been a reputable third party, like Cnet. I was using Windows, at the time, I am using Unbuntu now. The Coin never showed in any of my wallets. I was at a public Wifi spot. Is there an android App that you can use to access a windows computer with?

Took you some time to reply. Got a transactions ID?

Why should it be an android app? If you are in a public, unproteced, badly configured wifi you are essentially in the same network as everyone else that is using the same network. If you windows machine ran vulnerable software it could have been used to take over the system.

[Coin-Keeper]

Shorena, thank you for trying to help him.  That two month gap in this thread is a head scratcher, huh?

OP, if you seriously want to follow up here how about that TX #?  One of the reasons people always get asked about where they got the Electrum file is because the oldest trick in the book is to hand a user an infected file.  A MITM site well designed can make you think you are actually downloading from Electrum.org but its actually an imposter.  If you verified the download via Thomas' GPG key there would be NO doubt.  Did you, because many if not most don't?

I also wanted to say that I travel mobile with BTC and if you are going in public wifi type places the best thing you can do is to start using a hardware wallet while doing so.  Not that you would want to, but you can do a transaction on a totally infected computer using a Trezor, and the funds will still only go where the device authorizes them to go.  No place else, once you learn to use it properly.  Trezor is not the only great hardware wallet.  They are fairly cheap for the protection they give if you are using coins publicly especially.

[spiritglove]

More like a 2 year gap, this happened in the fall of 2014. Trezor, ok new to me I will check it out. I never had problems sending small amounts, it was the large amount that got snatched.
 I hoped that there might have been some fix in a software glitch that would have brought my coin back. I can still access the wallet. Check the GPG OK, how do I do that? The old wallet seems to work with the recent updates, and newer versions of Electrum.

[Coin-Keeper]

Totally missed that.