Quote from: acoindr on June 06, 2013, 07:03:10 PM

Quote from: r3wt on June 06, 2013, 06:57:29 PM

ha, are you serious on both points?

What are you talking about?

I don't think he knows what he is talking about. Surely no-one would advocate running MalwareBytes, ccleaner, malware bytes pro, microsoft security essentials, avast internet security and sandboxie all at the same time, as a means of "staying secure".

Surely anyone who knew what they were talking about would know that this does absolutely nothing to protect you from zero day exploits, and also the most common attack vector - conning the user into installing the trojan/similar themselves (i.e. donwloading something unknown from the internet and running it).

OP has already taken excellent precautions; if his install of Armory on his offline computer was to a freshly installed OS (I used Ubuntu 10.14) then he should be alright.

Disabling autorun is a good idea in any case though, another precaution I took, was to enter the BIOS of my (offline) netbook and then to disable wifi and bluetooth, to remove some more potential vectors.

I did not print my armory keys when generated, but saved to pdf and immediately encrypted the doc using Truecrypt (using a long, randomly generated password), and that is now sitting in an online backup service (which happens to be 2 factor auth protected too).

My offline armory wallet (on a ubuntu netbook) is password protected. My netbook is fully encrypted itself. Passwords were randomly generated for all.

I agree with acoindr when he says, that OPs online computer can get whatever sh*t on he cares to allow on there, as long as the offline computer is secure, then the coins will be safe (and the infection is then not passed onto the offline device).

Browser extensions can help with online computer safety, such as noscript, adblock, flashblock and if using chrome (which you shoudl do I think), then go here: chrome://settings/content and set plugins to "click to play" rather than "play automatically". This will prevent things from being autorun on various webpages.

Also, never run anything you download from the internet unless you know what it is. This may sound obvious, but is more helpful than you might think - I am not trying to patronise anyone... Cheesy

Stay safe OP.

Also, if anyone has any additional pointers I should beware of, not to hijack this thread, but I would always be open to hear them Grin