On Thu, 28 Sep 2017 16:34:32 -0400
John Newman <
jnn@synfin.org> wrote:
>> I’ve been using electrum on android and Linux for the past 18
>> months or so, and can only second Juan’s recommendation -
>> it’s worked quite well for me. There’s even a “bitcoin atm” near
>> my house where you can deposit cash and specify a wallet
>> address (or scan a qr code) - although I haven’t used the atm
>> since prices got above 1k/btc, so it’s been a little while ;)
> For completness' sake I guess we should mention that one has to
be reasonaby sure that the machine running electrum (or other
client) isn't 'compromised' / has some sort of coin stealing
malware.
Yes, I recall reading on a blog of this potential problem. Do ordinary anti-virus programs have the ability to detect such problems before they BECOME real problems?