Hey guys,
It has been a while since I used Electrum, but today I wanted to send some BTC and logged back in.
When I tried to send the payment, I got a popup saying that I have to upgrade the wallet to version 4.0, and the popup had some links to download files for separate OS, such as windows, linux etc.. I clicked one of the links, and got the message that the download failed. After doing so, I figured I would be able to update the client through the application itself, but could not find a way to do so. I headed to the Electrum website andfound that this was a malicious popup and that the latest version is 3.3.6.
This is the situation:
My existing Electrum wallet is version 3.0.1
I most likely clicked a malicious link, my browser indicated that download failed, but malware bytes stopped some connection to malicious websites since. (though no threats were detected when I scanned my laptop).
I did not install a version 4 manually (maybe the "failed download" did so automatically).
I have not logged in using my pass in another version of Electrum wallet 3.0.1, and have not entered the pw since potentially downloading the malicious installer.
I have not used my seed anywhere what so ever.
My assumption is the following: My laptop is most likely infected with some shitty malware, but I'm not sure if they are able to access my BTC.
How do I proceed. Can I just download the latest Electrum version on another computer, use seed to install wallet there? Then create new wallet / seed and transfer the BTC just to be safe?
Any thoughts?
Fingers crossed I'm not too far gone, reading others' messages send chills down my spine as I don't want to lose my holdings..