Quote from: altcoinhosting2 on March 27, 2017, 09:18:52 AM

Quote from: cryptocoinplay on March 27, 2017, 09:14:33 AM

Recently There's a Virus I am victim of it and some of my friends, clients etc are affected too. This is called Copy-Paste Virus.
Please be careful while you paste a BTC address or Copy an Address.

The virus works like-- You copied a BTC address to send and while you paste it, It changed to other address and the funds sends to other account.

This virus exists since at least several years, it existed when i first registered on this forum, and it'll probably continue to exist for times to come.
However, a warning like the one you posted here from time to time is a good thing... It keeps people vigilant

Always check the first couple of characters and the last couple of characters when copy-pasting... It's allmost impossible for a virus to generate enough private keys to match the first 4-5 characters AND the last 4-5 characters whithout the end user noticing lag...

Definitely people should be checking at least the first few and last few characters of their address when pasting it anywhere, doing it blindly is not advised.