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Board Altcoin Discussion
Re: 82.4M MOON STOLEN FROM MY WALLET !!!
by
kalus
on 04/02/2014, 20:48:19 UTC
Very generous donation from someone! Has the mooncoin wallet trojan been verified? Makes me a bit uneasy reading that, but I know people scream virus on almost any wallet released (mainly due to false flags).
i was around for the mooncoin launch.  there was a trojan in one mooncoin wallet, not a virus.  

Do we know which wallet version this was?
it wasn't a version; it was a 'compiled' 'wallet' posted by a user in the mooncoin thread during the initial-mine chaos that a few people installed and turned out to have a trojan in it.  IIRC it was off a mega file link. 

ever since, i've only installed wallets in discrete VM, compiled my own where possible, and lately i haven't even bothered mining new coins because the risk of a trojan outweighed the possible profit from a new coin.  whenever someone has their coins stolen and posts one of these threads, usually they have a dozen or more different wallets installed on the same machine.  After seeing so many people burned, it just doesn't make sense for me to take the risk.