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Board Electrum
Re: bitcoin is hackable on electrum-2.9.3-portable news may 2018
by
NeuroticFish
on 21/05/2018, 18:47:49 UTC
@op, I'd suggest a full virus scan on your computer before putting the new software on in case it's a virus. There's free software like malware bytes and free trials of other services like McAfee.

I even advise to burn a bootable CD and scan from it. Kaspersky or Avira are 2 pretty good options.
The idea is at the chance the Electrum vulnerability was used is smaller than the chance you have some surprise on your system. Afaik for the vulnerability to be exploited Electrum should have been kept running.
(And yes, I've read that you have Avast on, but no antivirus is perfect).