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Board Bitcoin Technical Support
Re: wtf? i woke up and it says my bitcoin got sent to some one's address
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nanobtc
on 05/02/2014, 22:54:24 UTC
yea im running windows but how does that even happen.  im 99.9% sure i dont have a key logger.  i work in IT and im not that dumb to get a virus and stuff that easily.  they would need to have my my wallet in order to send themselves bitcoin right?  it is password protected.  im using multi-bit

You don't have to be dumb to get a virus and stuff, you just have to be running an insecure version of Windows. Some versions can have a running VNC server injected into memory, the attacker can log on to it as SYSTEM, and you are pwned without ever clicking on a link, or getting a funny email. Some tools let you remotely add a user.