Lost my bitcoin after I have installe electrum 4.0.0

[BitMaxz]

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This is a big problem to users who don't know about the recent Electrum attacks even me can be a victim of this attack if I don't know what happen recently to Electrum I'm sure I will click the update button the same as what you did. But since I always care about my wallet I follow Electrum twitter and always visit this section just to be aware of the new update of this wallet because I don't want to be another victim of hackers.

It's not your fault, it's not my fault and it's not a devs fault. Hackers are always there and we can not do anything for them to gone or vanished. What we need to do is to keep our wallet safe and protect and keep updated about the wallet so that we can reduce the risk.

Anyway, sorry for your lose next time if you want to make your wallet safer make Electrum cold wallet instead and never connect it to the internet. The cold wallet doesn't need to update if there is a new release then make a watch only wallet where you can make unsign transaction. This is my wallet and never had any problem using it I'm just broadcasting them in coinb.in or in the blockchain if I want to send or transfer a BTC.

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[digicoins2u]

I just lost my huge amount of savings in the same way. I was using Electrum 3.0.6 or 3.0.8 and had nothing but trouble sending bitcoins so learned how to do it by reading different forums and then this evening tried to send bitcoins again and had trouble sending them followed by a message being thrown up saying I needed version 4 which I upgraded to and all of a sudden my balance is 0. All my money, gone.

[HCP]

All my money, gone.

Sorry to hear that.

I just lost my huge amount of savings in the same way. I was using Electrum 3.0.6 or 3.0.8 and had nothing but trouble sending bitcoins so learned how to do it by reading different forums

It's a shame you didn't find Bitcointalk earlier... otherwise you would have seen all the threads about the phishing attack and how to avoid losing coins.

I'm really not sure how some 8-9 months after the initial attack and all of the countless threads, reddits, twitter, blog posts etc that people have not heard about this?

[digicoins2u]

All my money, gone.

Sorry to hear that.

I just lost my huge amount of savings in the same way. I was using Electrum 3.0.6 or 3.0.8 and had nothing but trouble sending bitcoins so learned how to do it by reading different forums

It's a shame you didn't find Bitcointalk earlier... otherwise you would have seen all the threads about the phishing attack and how to avoid losing coins.

I'm really not sure how some 8-9 months after the initial attack and all of the countless threads, reddits, twitter, blog posts etc that people have not heard about this?

True mate and I used to work in IT! The Electrum site needs a HUGE WARNING with pics etc.!!! I lost a LOT but you know what, fuck them! An old school friends mother died of cancer today  and I only lost some money so puts it into perspective. I'm due some good luck cause been shit comin my way of late except for the price of bitcoin rising but they're gone now too so fuck it all!!! Gonna do the lotto, wish me luck!

[electrum4.0]

Had the same thing today
I had the popup and installed version 4.0. Norton warned me and quarantined the file, but I read on internet that anti-virus software tag these files because they look for wallet files. As Electrum software had to work with the wallet file, it is normal that it has to be installed. So I removed it from quarantine and installed it.
When I restarted the software, Norton locked it again, so I got suspicious and went to the Electrum site and installed version 3.3.8.
I then made my payment and everything went correct, payment arrived at correct address. So I was lucky.
I then did a fast system scan with Norton, and nothing was found.
But then Norton alerted me that there was suspisious large outgoing mail activity and that I need to run Norton Power Eraser. Also Norton blocked suspisious incomming brake-ins.
I disconnected my PC from the internet...

Does anyone know what the 4.0 software does besides the changement of the payment address and servers??

Thx

[TryNinja]

Does anyone know what the 4.0 software does besides the changement of the payment address and servers??

No one can really say as anyone can create their own malicious server and try to make people download their files.

I personally would recommend you doing a clean reinstall of your OS as you can't know if the fake wallet only steals your coins or also infect your PC with a trojan or keylogger. Better to be safe than sorry.

[bob123]

Does anyone know what the 4.0 software does besides the changement of the payment address and servers??

There are most probably multiple different entities spreading their malware. No one here can answer that question.

The only way to be (amost) sure that your computer is clean is to reinstall your OS, as TryNinja pointed out.
Anything else will still have a remaining risk of your computer still being infected.


Oh.. and don't use some sort of cracked windows. All of them are infected with backdoors. Always.

[Lucius]

I had the popup and installed version 4.0. Norton warned me and quarantined the file...

You and some other users are saved by antivirus, which just shows us that most of those who took the wrong step and install fake wallet had no protection whatsoever, which is so stupid that it's almost unthinkable. When we add to that cryptocurrency and lack of knowledge, it's easy money for those who are playing dirty games in background.

I think you shoud be safe, Norton is prevented that fake wallet to even install on your device. But you can try to make scan in safe mode with Norton and free version of Malwarebytes, this is much better way to remove all bad things from your OS. However, only 100% safe way is disc formating and installing of fresh OS.

[NeuroticFish]

Oh.. and don't use some sort of cracked windows. All of them are infected with backdoors. Always.

I keep writing this now ant then: instead of cracked Windows, now there's the option to simply use Win10 not activated basically forever. The few restrictions are mostly cosmetic. Much better than an old cracked Windows imho.

[bob123]

The few restrictions are mostly cosmetic. Much better than an old cracked Windows imho.

Or simply switch to linux 
Much better security- and privacy-wise without any cosmetic restrictions at all. And it is for free.

There are quite a lot distributions out there which are suited for beginner (a.k.a. almost no command line necessary). Ubuntu / Mint being the best examples for such a distro.