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Board Bitcoin Technical Support
Re: Bitcoin Wallet Empty, no transactions, no nothing
by
ForgottenPassword
on 05/08/2014, 11:28:35 UTC
Reading that thread there are many people accusing the developer of putting viruses in the coin.

Be WAY more careful in the future. Don't run ANYTHING you aren't 9,001% sure is safe. If you are installing software that has the source code available, learn how to compile it from source. Running the exe puts a lot of trust in the developer as the exe can do ANYTHING. People can check the source code for viruses but they cannot easily check the exe.

Hey,
Everyone that downloaded the windows wallet early needs to check that AppData\Local\Spoon directory. That is where the backdoor was installed, it doesn't come up on a lot of virus scans, and was packaged with the windows wallet. Seems that the dev has now removed the malicious wallet.

You need to delete that directory asap. The program installed after you ran the zipcoin wallet for the first time and ztor.exe remains running even after you close the zipcoin wallet.

Obviously the exchanges and people who complied from source weren't affected, as this was zipped with the original windows wallet that was posted in the announcement.

Digiguy seems like the attacker shilling to extend time cleaning people out, posting screenshots to direct attention from where the problem is.

So if you downloaded that original windows wallet you need to check that  C:\USERS\youraccount\APPDATA\LOCAL\SPOON, delete that directory asap, and then look for all your wallet.dat files in the APPDATA roaming folder, if you were infected the "wallet.dat" files were renamed to whatever coin it was such as "Dogecoin.dat" and then sent to the attacker.

Gonna repeat, Zipcoin-qt.exe itself is not malicious it was the ztor.exe bullshit that was packaged with the windows wallet, maybe thats why the dev called it zipcoin heh.

Again this shit doesnt come up on a lot of antivirus scanners and you need to remove this manually if you were infected, and then there is no telling what else could have been installed so its best to reformat your harddrive.

I fear a good amount of people got cleaned out already if they had all their wallets on the infected PC, I guess we'll find out with time.

You should not just delete the directory like this guy recommends. You should do a fresh Windows install. This is the only way to be sure you've removed it.