Beware of virus-infested wallets!
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.
The currency in question is called Bata(BTA). 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 absolutely free Kaspersky Virus Removal Tool and scan every wallet before and after installing it!
Here is the virus detection, and the virus description:
Information taken from Symantec.com
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!
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Thanks for this information. On my suggested Coin ReputationRank, I guess a virus invested wallet would earn -1000 points. :)
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...
On March 24, 2017 virustotal shows it was found with coinstealer...
https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/333a9b14949cf55024201fd89480ea284b1a0bf1c888b1358f894c9a06c83221/analysis/
I would contact the admins wherever this is hosted at and warn them of this.
It's hosted on the official site of the currency. I'm assuming they know about it :P
You can always try to find who is hosting it and go to them. Errm I mean who's server it actually is.
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
That's a great idea!
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.
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!
We're alike, it happened the same to me with Elvis...
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Thanks for the appreciation!
Gnarly bruh! Thx for the info.
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