Getting messages from Bitcoin-Qt about wallet.dat problems

[Loozik]

Hi,

I am getting this



and then this



Can someone help? Am I hacked or what?

[Loozik]

I forgot to mention I am using: Bitcoin-Qt v0.8.3-beta, Windows 7 64-bit.

[BookLover]

This has happened a few times before and has not been linked to being hacked (as far as I have read).  If on the outside chance you don't have any coins in your wallet and don't need the addresses therein just delete wallet.dat and let bitcoin qt create a new on for you.

If you want to keep your wallet first make a copy of it and put it somewhere safe.  Then try running bitcoin qt with the -salvagewallet option.  If this doesn't work you may have to try pywallet to retrieve the private keys. 

Did this happen immediately after you upgraded or is this just a random error?

I hope something here helps you,
BookLover

[Loozik]

This has happened a few times before and has not been linked to being hacked (as far as I have read).

Bad this happened. Good this is not associated with an attack 

I started Bitcoin-Qt now and all my Bitcoins are there and no error message displaying windows pop up. So I assume everything should be okay.

Many thanks for answering.

[BookLover]

np, glad it fixed itself.