Quote from: DYING_S0UL on December 06, 2023, 02:58:40 AM

Good realization mate. BTW, I don't think this malware has come to that point to clone an entire/slightly different or half of an address. It hasn't become that capable yet. One thing I'm unsure of is what triggers this virus. Certainly copy pasting casual text won't make it active, while I was infected I only realized after copying a btc address. Another thing is this virus only targets specific address? This is my concern. If it only targeted BTC then other altcoin address won't active it. And sending altcoins to an bitcoin address doesn't make sense, it it? My guess it only targets the big ones such as bitcoin or etheream etc. So if a user is infected and only uses altcoins, there is a big chance he won't detect that he is infected.

Only solution is to always memorize your address (the last part).

They can actually clone almost a full address with just maybe a two or three characters missing from it. This is possible with vanity address generators. Since with this type of address you can choose your own few characters rather than all of them been randomly generated. That is why the attack is on specific address maybe those that look similar. The best thing is to use an offline wallet and if you get infected with this malware just reformat the HD

As for addresses memorization it is bad because it means you will only use those few addresses which are not good for privacy. Also you shouldn’t rely on memory as you could make a mistake and send to a wrong address still even if it is not that of the scammer