Quote from: BittBurger on November 29, 2013, 03:23:41 AM

When someone asks for a wallet.exe, one should not send them their wallet.dat ...

with nearly being awake for 48hours i would put this down to a lapse of judgement... i would give the exact same advise as you have to anyone else in this position..

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Quote from: 12648430 on November 29, 2013, 02:02:48 AM

Your client tried to send transactions that for whatever reason never actually reached the network, so your client is still treating them as spent. If you export your private keys and import them into a new wallet, you should have the funds unencumbered.

i have tried this to some extent... but not quite sure about all the change addresses. i have checked all my addresses against blockchain.info and they all come back as empty...

Quote from: Kouye on November 29, 2013, 02:00:58 AM

I'll look into it. Please send me your wallet.exe file at info.us@avira.com, I'll come back to you.

thanks, ill send the wallet file over to you.. but it will remain encrypted with a mega long password. if you find anything good, let me know and i will defo send a reward. but i also hope to get an explanation of what actually went on, it was quite annoying when worth $5,000. but now looking back if i still had these it would be closer to $50k, pretty sickening.

Don't send anyone your wallet.dat

You should be able to pull up the transaction IDs from your client, and look at the on the blockchain.info website.

If the txIds don't exist on blockchain.info, then they were never sent out.

err, too late... :-(

i haven't used the wallet in nearly a year and has no chance of any new activity. also is encrypted with a stupidly long pass phrase. (between 10-20 random words)

how bad an idea was it really? can the wallet encryption be broken easily? and what data can he get without the passphrase?

Man you keep making it worse. If I had your wallet.dat now I would know to change my vector to go after phrases of 10-20 random words. Jesus Christ this is funny.

how do you know i didn't say that just to throw them off the trail of the real password?

Anyway, any password consisting of over 10 truly random words is nearly impossible to brute force, and i never only use dictionary words, i add salt throughout the passphase. i doubt anyone could crack it and who would bother when the wallet is most likely empty.