Affected by bitcoin Copy paste address

[roosbit]

a more better solution is to format your PC and reinstall OS.

I will suggest to do this and if I was you then I would do that. Just format and reinstall your OS

Am hoping OP has a partitioned hard drive at the least to save any  valuable data but for an alternative solution before you proceed with formatting try malwarebytes to disinfect your computer system. Even the trail version should work.

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[o_e_l_e_o]

Am hoping OP has a partitioned hard drive at the least to save any  valuable data but for an alternative solution before you proceed with formatting try malwarebytes to disinfect your computer system. Even the trail version should work.

In addition to the normal back ups of important files and documents, I create a full disk image approximately every 6 months, and then encrypt that and store it on an external drive. I've never had to use it, but my logic is that should I suffer a complete drive failure or some horrendous malware which I cannot clean, I can just format my hard drive and restore from image in an hour or two, and it's like nothing ever happened. I also have a "clean" image of my drive taken from just after I finished installing and configuring all my usual programs for the first time, before it ever touched the internet, which I can go back to if necessary.

Given just how customized everything on my computer is, I dread to think how long it would take to set up again from scratch if I did need to reformat and didn't have my drive image available.

[jossiel]

and when copying and pasting any wallet address i will type first or last letter myself so if i have any malware it cannot change it

You know what, what I do now is I'm remembering the first 2-3 characters (numbers and letters) and also the last part. It's okay to do this but don't manually input the whole address.

During those days that I'm totally noob knowing if I'm affected with copy-paste malware, I'm typing the whole address manually and it takes a long time for me to end because I'm checking it many times just to be sure. Well, I'm scared of malware during that time.

[Lucius]

Also, as always, grab a hardware wallet if you hold big amounts of bitcoin.

What needs to be emphasized is that hardware wallets are not imune on clipboard malware attacks, and because of that Ledger is add option to verify address on hardware wallet, so if it match to one displayed on Ledger Live / Electrum user can be sure coins will be delivered / send to to the correct address.

Presumption that hardware wallet is something that can protect users form every threat is wrong, users lost coins even from hardware wallets every day, but not because of any vulnerabilities and hacking, but because they do stupid things (entering seed on fake sites, reseting device without seed backup, sharing seed with friends...).

[o_e_l_e_o]

What needs to be emphasized is that hardware wallets are not imune on clipboard malware attacks

No wallet will be immune to clipboard malware attacks. Even an air gapped wallet won't be immune, since you are generating the transaction on a live machine before transferring it your air gapped machine for signing, so if your live machine is infected then you are still at risk. The point of the hardware wallet is it forces the users to make a second confirmation of the address after hitting "send" in their wallet. If the user chooses to skip that and just confirm it without checking, then no amount of hardware or software engineering can prevent that.

but because they do stupid things (entering seed on fake sites, reseting device without seed backup, sharing seed with friends...)

You are absolutely right, but if our metric for whether a device or system is secure is whether the user does something stupid with it, then every security system in the world is at risk.

[nakamura12]

I also suggest that you should update your operating system (OS). Having an anti-virus installed on your computer is good but it doesn't mean that it can removed all potential malware hidden in your computer, I already compared some anti-virus programs and use it to scan but the results are different where the first anti-virus result is clean but the second anti-virus detects a virus that the first anti-virus didn't detect. About copying your wallet address and pasting another wallet address is called Clipboard Hijacking Attack which will replaced the wallet address you have copied to another wallet address that they have setup that when you paste the wallet address you pasted will be the wallet address of the person who infect you with the malware.

[whtchocla7e]

You have put something in your computer, it may have lurked somewhere. What you need to do is scan your computer, find malware and handle it. We need to pay close attention to and limit downloading of unknown applications to our computer. This will cause the data in our computers to be lost.

[odukoyaewatomi27]

I just discovered yesterday that my laptop has been affected with this malware when i was trying to send some altcoins to my binance wallet, im so glad i cross checked the address or else i would have lost my coins

Please is there anyone that has a lasting solution that doesn't involve me formating mt PC, i would like to hear it because i have a lot of important data on my PC and i can't back it up at the moment