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Re: How to lose your Bitcoins with CTRL-C CTRL-V
by
GSpgh
on 08/10/2019, 14:50:13 UTC

I think it should be Ctrl-C, then Ctrl-F, then Ctrl-V.

Nothing wrong with that tutorial, Why CTRL+V, then CTRL+F, then CTRL-V, After you have copied wallet address, you need to paste clipboard. It means we need the first CTRL+V, After we are pasted wallet address, we need to check wallet address from clipboard results, then we need CTRL+F.  The last CTRL+V is for a paste wallet address on the search form.

So, for complete process is CTRL+C > CTRL+V > CTRL+F > CTRL+V, like LoyceV says.

No, the post says to select a part of the pasted address, I assume to avoid triggering the clipboard malware. It wouldn't make sense to do Ctrl-V immediately after selecting a piece of text. Anyway, it's been fixed so not an issue anymore.

Your method works too but only if malware doesn't do reverse substitution.