This is just for those that haven't heard of this issue. It appears that the virus is from Russian hackers and it changes the send BTC address to their own.
The easiest way to prevent it is what most people do already which is to check the first 3 digits/letters and the last 3 and make sure they match.
Again, even though I had prior knowledge about this, thanks for the heads up. Everyone should definitely resort to double checking addresses before sending/receiving funds.
Are you referring to the virus that adjust your clipboard to when it detects that you copied a Bitcoin address? Or is this a new sort of malware that targets specific wallet clients?
Pretty sure it just copies the address provided by the malware host (creator) to clipboard instead of copying the actual address you highlighted and yes, it works based on some sort of detection algorithm i.e only when Bitcoin addresses are trying to be copied. It targets everything from web browsers to wallet clients using a formgrabber.
