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Board Wallet software
Re: Possible Compromised Laptop With Seed in Password Manager?
by
jerry0
on 14/12/2021, 20:11:45 UTC
Many of the other altcoins I have is not supported by nano ledger.  That is why I don't have it all transferred there.  Previously they were in an exchange and then I downloaded software wallets for it.  I do not do trading with these crapcoins.  I basically bought them years ago and held them in an exchange or wallet etc.  I am not doing any quick trading of any sort.


The reason why I use windows is because that is all I ever used.  Other thing is some programs I use... are not compatible with windows.  So using linux or mac won't work for me.


Someone else suggested what I can do is transfer all my files from the possibly compromised laptop to an external hard drive or the cloud.  Then wipe my windows clean and do a clean reinstall.  Then when using the new computer scan all those files in a non administrative account and then check to see if there is any malware before copying the files to the new computer.  Is there any issue with this?  Again I know the easiest thing to do is just clean reinstall my laptop, but I have files there I want to keep etc.  But is it risky transferring those files?  I know had i done a macrieum reflect backup, then I wouldn't had these issues etc. 


The other option is downloading kaspersky total or bitdefender and scanning the machine to see what it finds and then remove those threats.  And maybe continue using it?  Again I am just stumped on what to do because I don't have my full backups.


The big issue here is I have seed stored in my password manager, so if I open it up, if keylogger there, then I'm screwed?