Clipboard Virus

[Zilon]

Chances are you might have visited a compromised or hacked web address that got your PC infected with this malware attack or you have used an infected removable disk or installed a malicious software on your device. I think you need to go through your PC and check your most recent activities or alternatively you can backup your seed phrase and format your PC then ensure you only use softwares from recognised web pages and install softwares form authorised links. Lastly avoid clicking advert links and spam emails. Cross checking your address for every transaction is a secure approach but what if you forget to cross check. Avoiding phishing links will do a lot of good

[Iadegbola34]

This is not a new scam method, only that you just realized.
LoyceV made a post about it in this thread. The thread contains some countermeasures or should I say solutions to this kind of attack, should you still feel unsafe about your PC. Give it a read.

This was the thread that I was referring by the way : How to lose your Bitcoins with CTRL-C CTRL-V

Oops, I just checked back on the comments posted earlier and it seems OP already pointed that out
Nevertheless, give it a read.

[nakamura12]

This has been discussed too many times already and why we must be careful at copying and pasting something. There is a thread where it explains what could possibly happen when you copy and paste (ctrl + c and ctrl + v). That's why we should always check everything that we pasted if it's what we have copied before sending if it is about transactions. This is not just for Bitcoin but all for crypto transactions you do. Here's the thread I was talking about How to lose your Bitcoins with CTRL-C CTRL-V.

[dlightag]

Thanks for sharing the bad experience you encounter through saving your private key your email account which is very bad experience to losses his asset, because hacker can easily access the account through virus to scan laptop as long is connected online and it can be easily collect to email, respect to private email, which can not be reset, therefore saving your private key offline or hardware is the best and is more secured and reliable.

[isaac_clarke22]

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I also hope that if OP would still choose Windows at the end of the day by him/herself, s/he would really get the legitimate ones as the pirated ones surely have some malware in them. My friend long time ago had to ask me for an advice before that something feels wrong with his machine even though it was a "clean install" and I just found out that there was a weird "EXE" file running in the background in Task Manager that should not be there.
He installed it by himself and he used the usual pirated ones and it is not even illegally activated yet.
At the end of the day, I just gave him the word that he should buy a legitimate copy of his Windows instead or go Linux if he prefers it.

Thanks for sharing the experience you encounter through saving your private key your email account, which is not saved at all, because hacker can easily access the account and collect the private, which can not be reset, therefore saving your private key offline hardware is the best and is more secured.

Take note also what the OP is trying to point out about the dangers of copy-pasting stuffs.

[onlinehandelen]

I've always questioned why metamask wants access to your clipboard (Google Chrome extention) and therefore have stayed away from it. Should I buy a seperate device just for metamask or stay away?

[Ever-young]

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If anyone is also having same issue you can follow the Instructions from the article below and get ride of it.
https://www.2-spyware.com/remove-clipboard-virus.html

Even as I am sure the virus is off my pc, I still cross check my wallet about 3 good times before I execute any transaction again.

Update on this.
The Procedure which I followed to remove the virus on my PC I guess it was temporary as I realized the clipboard virus is still their, try making transaction this morning and notice same old thing.
Have decided to go get new OS tomorrow to be on the safer side.

[Pmalek]

Clipboard malware or not, if you verify the transactions you are making you would notice that the addresses don't match. Too many people are way overconfident and don't check anything and want to finalize and broadcast their transactions as soon as possible. Check the letters and numbers of the address character by character to make sure they are identical. When you are done checking, check again. Use a hardware wallet to be certain that the two addresses match. Hopefully, you won't make the same mistakes again. 

[Laurendaldin]

I'm sorry that it's went so shitty. Going through this is terrible. I didn't know about this kind of scam, thank you for the awareness!

[Ever-young]

It's been long since I created this thread. Just want to bump it up so that Newbies who is not aware will take note of the clipboard virus... I just happen to come across few victims of same incident yesterday it was really painful to here their story how they both lost almost a sum of $300 both in token and BNB.

[NotATether]

Using PC to store anything crypto is a very big risk, you start browsing the web in a minute you got spyware or malware tailing you already, it's just too risky, I prefer using a smartphone to open a trust wallet instead.

You should not be storing your cryptocurrency on any internet-connected device, especially not on a phone (which can be stolen easily) that is extremely susceptible to phishing attacks via email and SMS messages wherein you have no idea that you were hit by a virus.

Of course, this can happen to PCs as well, but at least there is decent antivirus software available for such devices.

It's been long since I created this thread. Just want to bump it up so that Newbies who is not aware will take note of the clipboard virus... I just happen to come across few victims of same incident yesterday it was really painful to here their story how they both lost almost a sum of $300 both in token and BNB.

Is the $300 the combined total stolen, or roughly how much each of them lost?

[Ever-young]

Is the $300 the combined total stolen, or roughly how much each of them lost?

Total stolen from 2 different person's, they where victims of using a pirated OS from a non trusted software deal, the first person purchase the OS (window 10 professional) and share with the 2nd person to install not knowing the danger they where involving them self in.
It could have really been a greater loss if the 300$ was individually because they could have completely be broken down calculating on their present financial status.