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February 09, 2018, 04:05:25 PM
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The question to those who have long been in the crypto topic. PC protection is an important part of monitoring different ISO and others, even if all the keys are stored on a USB flash drive.
How to secure yourself more than usual? Maybe there are some special antiviruses, or extensions in the browser from phishing and illegal mining.
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February 09, 2018, 04:36:11 PM
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I can general recommend if you plan or already use electronic wallets to use a old laptop only for that.
So you can also control all ports and make sure the internet connection is only used for specific tasks.

I also recommend to use a sandbox for each wallet you are using so if one wallet or a program is corrupted it can't get control over the other applications running.
With this approach you are quite safe and you have the possibility to stake for example.

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February 09, 2018, 04:41:32 PM
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February 09, 2018, 05:46:04 PM
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The question to those who have long been in the crypto topic. PC protection is an important part of monitoring different ISO and others, even if all the keys are stored on a USB flash drive.
How to secure yourself more than usual? Maybe there are some special antiviruses, or extensions in the browser from phishing and illegal mining.

You need to draw a line between comfort of usage / risk of funds being stolen.

The best thing obviously would be to use a paper wallet/Ledger/trezor, don't use an old USB as they can still get hacked relatively easily/randomly break down ( in comparison with a trezor).

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Maybe there are some special antiviruses, or extensions in the browser from phishing and illegal mining.

Not sure what you really mean by illegal mining, but i guess you could use something that prevents you from being keylogged. https://www.qfxsoftware.com/

And ofcourse make sure you have good/paid AV software...)

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February 09, 2018, 06:14:30 PM
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The question to those who have long been in the crypto topic. PC protection is an important part of monitoring different ISO and others, even if all the keys are stored on a USB flash drive.
How to secure yourself more than usual? Maybe there are some special antiviruses, or extensions in the browser from phishing and illegal mining.

If you haven't already swich to Linux.

If you are looking for one of the most secure system chose Qubes, what it essentialy does is run every program on it's own virtual machine and by doing this if for instance your browser gets infected other programs have really low posibility of get infected. here is the website check them out: https://www.qubes-os.org/

For some purposes I use clean debian love OS as well.

Don't think that there aren't any malware for linux, there are some of course but far less than for windows which lowers the chances of something even getting installed on your computer. Because there are many distros of Linux it is hard for hacker to write code as mostly he will have to have really good knowledge of some distro and write hack for it, but there is possibility it won't work on other distributions. Since windows is one of the most popular out there people often write malwares for it. With linux if you know what you are doing there is a really low chance to get malware, have to be careful waht you install.

So if you are really interested in security and if your computer can run smoothly on QUBES I'd suggest you to opt for it. You can even have dual boot on computer and do things which you think require more security  on linux.
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February 09, 2018, 06:42:05 PM
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+1 vote for Linux. If you are interested in some new, less known coins and need to download a number of wallets (as I do), I recommend installing them in a virtual machine. VirtualBox (https://www.virtualbox.org/) is free and exists for both Windows and Linux. If you have a considerable number of bitcoins or other major cryptocurrency, consider organizing cold storage or buying a hardware wallet - they are much more secure than any 'hot' (online) system.
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February 09, 2018, 07:54:04 PM
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Some simpler things you could are these:

Make sure your browser plug-ins are up to date. Just like an old browser, an outdated plug-in leaves your browser and your computer vulnerable.

Set up a decent firewall. Windows and Mac have these built in, but they’re not perfect. A port test service like PortTest scans your firewall to make sure your computer is invisible.

When you delete files, get a program like Recuva that recovers old files and see if it can find them.

Hope this helps get you started!
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February 11, 2018, 01:35:54 PM
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To protect well your credentials from hacker, you must know be keen in analyzing the links that are sent to you. Also, check the subject line, the sender, granmar and the spelling of each. These are the common identifiers of a phishing or scam. Once you uave encountered these, be vigilant and report it immediately. Also, you must keep your credentials private for security reasons. Don’t trust anyone.
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