Quote from: TonyT on October 22, 2014, 04:57:13 AM

How do BTC noobs catch keyboard logger viruses? On occasion you see in the forums a post saying that somebody lost all their money from their online or offline wallet (but connected online) with a keyboard logging virus.

I have two theories, but I need help from experts:

1) the noobs are just like the rest of the public, in that on occasion they catch viruses, don't have the right anti-virus software, and so forth, and it's just random that they happen to be BTC users, or,

2) sites that BTC users frequent are often compromised with malware, because the bad guys know a significant portion of visitors to bitcoin sites have wallets on their HD that contain bitcoin. So bitcoin sites (including probably this one) have their DNS servers or what not compromised to redirect users to bad sites with malware and/or are constantly probed by hackers to be compromised, and so on, including perhaps the bad guys installing some sort of packet sniffer maybe at your ISP or somewhere in-between, that finds what ISP user internet address is visiting a bitcoin site, and then the bad guys attempt to breach your firewall and install a keyboard logger, etc.

I think or hope it's #1), not #2), but I get suspicious since a lot of seemingly savvy tech geeks end up with money stolen from their bitcoin wallets, so maybe it's scenario #2)?

It sounds so dangerous in the Bitcoin world.

If it's #1 at least I can protect myself by installing some good anti-virus software. If it's #2 then it's not easy to prevent even for experienced users.

Look like I should start thinking to use a clean and separated computer to handle my Bitcoins.

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