Quote from: tmbp on April 22, 2013, 12:45:59 AM

Quote from: tahar on April 22, 2013, 12:30:03 AM

Okay, so i would be very security conscientious at the most part but just recently i downloaded several miners, all linked to from these forums, for different crypto-currencies as a means of testing.

Having read someone who was asked to run a Java program randomly which proceeded to run an exploit to enable the hacker to remove his funds (cant recall the topic but it's here somewhere) i was fortunately prepared when i was asked to execute a very suspicious 'Java Upgrade' less than 10 minutes ago.

I'm now doing a full run of Anti Malware / Anti Virus searches and removing all the mining software i downloaded.

I am posting this to ask everyone to be very careful when downloading miners as i'm as certain as i could be that this was a virus (Java update was not from Oracle, some random address) and i'm sure i got it from the Miner software i downloaded as there is no other avenue it could have came from.

Be careful and stay safe!

Couple of people already got their coins stolen from mt gox by letting Java apps access to their PC.

Heard about someone who got 30BTC stolen this way. BTC is certainly for the technologically advanced and not for pensioners.

I would certainly agree that BTC is currently only for the technicallly and security savvy and until these things are addressed it shall only stifle the growth of crypto-currencies. Security needs to be strong and in the background. Some sort of supplementary encryption program or further enhancements to the clients will hopefully address this issue.