Beware of virus-infested wallets! by thegrinder

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scam · @thegrinder · Apr 27 '17

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Beware of virus-infested wallets!

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<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;I was checking out a new crypto today and, surprise, surprise! It was infested with a trojan virus labeled by the anti-virus as "Trojan.MSIL.CoinStealer.on". To put this into perspective, so you don't think it's a false positive: I've had more than 20 wallet programs installed on my computer without any virus detections. I'm using one of the top 2 antiviruses in the world, Kaspersky Internet Security. In more than 7 years of use, it only once gave me a somewhat-false positive when I was using a hacking tool, which was not really a danger for my computer, since I was the one using it.</p>
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>&nbsp;The currency in question is called Bata(BTA)</strong>. Beware of such programs! Always use a great anti-virus to protect yourself from losing all of your coins! If you can't afford one, I recommend getting the <strong>absolutely free </strong><a href="https://support.kaspersky.com/viruses/kvrt2015"><strong>Kaspersky Virus Removal Tool</strong></a> and scan every wallet before and after installing it!</p>
<h3><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Here is the virus detection, and the virus description:</strong></h3>
<p><img src="https://steemitimages.com/DQmSCaLqZjedYNBdz9y77ZaDCydWj9TcgXNjYpsRgMtjRW6/Virus.png" width="319" height="361"/></p>
<p><img src="https://steemitimages.com/DQmTq4ejCbRwYcgT2bnbXXyGSdvm54nDSJc39TaUraXqbzU/Stealer2.png" width="776" height="589"/></p>
<p>Information taken from Symantec.com</p>
<h3><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;In plain English, this means that this virus will copy your BitCoin wallet information (and possibly other wallets if it was further developed), send it to the hacker that made the virus, and then delete itself from your computer, so you'll never know it was there!</strong></h3>
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;I hope you found this article useful. Please upvote it if you did, follow me for more quality content, and resteem if you want to help others protect themselves.</p>
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@baah · Apr 28 '17

I would contact the admins wherever this is hosted at and warn them of this.

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@thegrinder · Apr 28 '17

It's hosted on the official site of the currency. I'm assuming they know about it :P

👍 baah, vincze95

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@baah · Apr 28 '17 (edited)

You can always try to find who is hosting it and go to them. Errm I mean who's server it actually is.

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@baah · Apr 28 '17

If they own the servers go to the next best source:

https://safebrowsing.google.com/safebrowsing/report_badware/?hl=en
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/legal/fraud-report/
http://www.digitalcitizen.life/how-report-malicious-websites-internet-explorer

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@flatearth · Apr 28 '17

Gnarly bruh! Thx for the info.

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@intelliguy · Apr 27 '17

Thanks for this information.   On my suggested [Coin ReputationRank](https://steemit.com/cryptocurrency/@intelliguy/coin-reputationrank-it-s-time-to-showcase-the-best-investments-for-new-crypto-users-no-more-scam-coins), I guess a virus invested wallet would earn -1000 points. :)

👍 intelliguy, thegrinder, intelligentvan, krownpower

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@thegrinder · Apr 27 '17

Haha, yeah :)) I can't believe they are using a 3 years old virus and they are gaining market cap! It's mind- blowing! The poor investors will never know what hit them...

👍 krownpower

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@intelliguy · Apr 28 '17

On March 24, 2017 virustotal shows it was found with coinstealer...

https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/333a9b14949cf55024201fd89480ea284b1a0bf1c888b1358f894c9a06c83221/analysis/

👍 intelligentvan, krownpower

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@marxrab · Apr 28 '17

That's a pretty nasty virus. Good thing you had a great antivirus program. I hadn't heard of Kaspersky before. Some people are so evil out there...genius at doing some of this stuff like hidden viruses...but evil.

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@thegrinder · Apr 28 '17

Search "top antivirus 2017" and you will definitely find it in the top 2 on almost any list. It's extremely good and I highly recommend it!

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@vup · Apr 29 '17

>I hadn't heard of Kaspersky before

We're alike, it happened the same to me with Elvis...

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@swissclive · Oct 5 '17

$0.04

Who's Elvis?

👍 swissclive
👎 sadkitten

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@screenname · Apr 28 '17

Re: Beware of virus-infested wallets!

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@thegrinder · Apr 28 '17

Thanks for the appreciation!

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@wvm · Jun 16 '17

Started following, great posts!

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