If only they can start accepting BTC directly, I would continue using their software.
How are you hoping to prevent Bad Usb virusses written into the firmware? A format will not clear the firmware. Since Kaspersky is Russian, and no other antivirus detected it but this, it can already be said that which antiviruses work for the governments and which are trustworthy lol.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/02/16/us-usa-cyberspying-idUSKBN0LK1QV20150216
We had some old computer and printers at work, destined to be destroyed, so I visited bitaddress.org and saved it for offline use... I then disconnected it from the internet and printed 200+ paper wallets for future use. {I then destroyed the hardware} so there are no way to get to that information.. It's already recycled material.
Those paper wallets are laminated and split between several destinations.... I used 5 for "Honey traps" on sites and none of them where hacked or accessed... so the rest should be safe.
Those paper wallets are laminated and split between several destinations.... I used 5 for "Honey traps" on sites and none of them where hacked or accessed... so the rest should be safe.
Well thats a bit crude, resetting the printer would have been enough, the printer doesnt have storable memory, only a cache, so after you keep it offline enough or just simply restart, the cache is ereased.
Or print something else with it, that also ereases the previous cache.
But i guess you wanted to make sure.
I`m not sure about honey traps, what did you store there 0.001BTC or similar? Some hackers could only target funds bigger than 1 BTC, so if you store like 10BTC next to a 0.001BTC honeytrap then only the 10BTC could get stolen and you realize it too late.
Also i dont think bitadress.org is a safe way to create an address, there can be millions of things that could stole the private key: keylogger,spyware,trojans. You can never make 100% sure that the online pc doesnt have virus, but you can with the offline PC. That is why it's better to only generate new addresses with the offline PC with a non-tampered Armory or BitcoinCore wallet