90 BTC stolen!

[RepublicSpace]

Jesus man! I'm so sorry for your loss ((((

[darlidada]

I'm a little skeptical. philipzhai appears to be a newbie, but take a look at the addresses he claims the coins were stolen from:

1CLn42dHFuXAd7o9bgrsCRmfDvLavRoxTq is over a year old and there are 121 transactions for a total of 5,657 BTC. In the first transaction, it received nearly 900 BTC.
1H4esgi6KwhDtVXZXJ12AS7QEwdeQighn4 has been receiving mining income for almost 2 years.

Do you believe that the original post was written by someone that has been mining for nearly 2 years and has more than 100 transactions worth 5657 BTC?

A lot of people use bitcoin but write on bitcointalk only when they need help.

Exactly right
the amount of people using bitcoin compared to bitcointalk is crazy...some do not realise that though

I'd be even more extreme : the people that matters in the bitcoin world rarely post on bitcointalk, there are on irc. I think there is a hierarchy within the bitcoin communty : reddit<bitcointalk<public irc channel<private irc channel

The higher you are in the hierarchy the sooner you have access to information.

[smashingpumpkin]

This sucks, man! i hope you will be able to restore them!

So whats the conclusion out of this? What is the best way to prevent stealing?

[bitsmichel]

Using Windows? It's full of malware and keyloggers. Switch to Linux, it's serious OS.

http://unrecom.net/features.html   Works on Windows,Mac, Linux and android via Java
I keep getting it in phishing/fake emails.

I think the best way is cold storage. You can get virus/malware anywhere, but using the official repositories you can avoid them to a large extend;

[Bitcoin Magazine]

file your lawsuit.  Fight for what is yours!!  god da mmit!!

[BitcoinLlama]

I wish we could know what was on alot of these computers. It is quite baffling something coins end up leaving QT...I guess at the end of the day our only option is to have a offline device for btc only...

[SOEHARTO]

so many i want have 30 please

[Cranky4u]

lesson learnt...use a relatively cold storage device such as an old, not used often laptop OR only fire up your regular PC wallet when you want top conduct a transaction

[Ron~Popeil]

I do not have any malware or key loggers on my PC according to my antivirus software. the wallet software was not even active when the transaction was supposedly executed - I launched it at around 12:45.

Windows antivirus softwares are not complete protection against malware. I've seen so many cases when antivirus software just can't see malware and block it. I administer around 500 computers, know what I'm talkig about.

Linux is the only way for fairly secure computing.

Yes. The risk you run is that anti virus software had to be updated and this only happens after the threat is identified and analyzed. Meanwhile the virus is spreading unimpeded.

[Bitcoin Magazine]

look man.  I *welcome* Key Loggers installed on my computer.  Just gives me more proof God is always watching.

[888]

I sympathize with you, but I'm sorry, I'm incapable of action.

[smoothie]

I feel like all these stories require further investigation. As much as we all like to talk about backdoors and keyloggers, I have yet to hear ANYONE losing their accounts to keyloggers.

there has actually been some scamming alt coins which has a trojan in their wallet program to steal your btc wallet.dat..

thats why any altcoins i get go to coinex.pw and get converted to btc, and then only store btc long term away from exchanges

Hence why I have been really picky on what I download and run.

Most of the time I don't download or install anything.

[mskryxz]

Probably all gone.

Cold storage is the best.

[jc01480]

Any leads on this? 

[mkc]

Tell us more about the incident.

Who are you?
How you collect the coins?
How long have you had these coins?
Any friend use the computer around the stealing time?

I think it is not possible to get it back now, I am so sorry for you.

[manobra]

please stop blaming OSs for security...

the USER is the problem...

I use Windows 7 x64 with MS. Security only as protection and many QT wallets...

no virus

[Ron~Popeil]

please stop blaming OSs for security...

the USER is the problem...

I use Windows 7 x64 with MS. Security only as protection and many QT wallets...

no virus

I hate to see anyone lose their coins but you are essentially correct. 90 coins is a lot to leave in any computer. Bit coin is really easy to protect with just a little effort.

[x8008]

I love windows

[Nawaytes]

i don't think so it's gonna back, difficult to track the system
every OS has different security level, linux is the best

[Ron~Popeil]

I love windows

After getting a Mac I will never go back to windows. After I installed linux on another computer I am using the Mac less and less as well.