Help me test BTC, LTC, ETH addresses

grarpamp grarpamp at gmail.com
Thu Sep 28 18:04:17 PDT 2017


>> Do
>> ordinary anti-virus programs have the ability to detect such problems
>> before they BECOME real problems?

AV are by nature behind the race, and junk ones are full of
junk themselves. Microsoft's AV probably doesn't have the
coverage but is free and when combined with good
practice can be a thing. Good practice might be running
one of the aforementioned Unix OS on the iron, and Windows
in a rollback VM container, with data on encrypted USB or
samba share.

The fuck people use Microsoft for anyway.

>         The two most secure options in this case are using an offline
>         computer, or using a hardware wallet.

Yep achieves the same sig thing. Though HW wallets are
usually more portable, may come with PINpad feature,
but lack any utility tools.

>>     Also, best practice is to have most of your funds in cold
>>     storage.

Like backups, this definitely applies if your balance is more
than you wish to lose. HW disk and wallet can, do, and will fail.
Print them out and stash them in the woods or wherever.
You can simple braincrypt them against being found
with 'openssl enc -e -aes128 -a'.



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