Ich glaube, dass sich auf meinem PC Malware befindet, aber ich kann mir keinen neuen leisten und kann ihn nicht löschen. Würde Trezor helfen?

Why can’t you wipe it?

yeah, it doesn’t matter how infected your computer is – if all of your assets‘ keys are stored on the Trezor (and you just use Metamask or Exodus, etc. etc) to access them, every withdrawal will require your physical approval on the Trezor. That’s the beauty of a hardware wallet. 🙂

Of course, if someone has a your Seed Phrase, it doesn’t matter what wallet you use – they can steal them. Make sure your Trezor generates a fresh seed, then send the funds to that one.

Get a new flash drive

Copy all critical data on it, and assume it may be infected. Disconnect it.

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Download malwarebytes free download and scan your pc

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After clean up, reboot and scan again.

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Then connect and scan the external flash drive for viruses.

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Finally, I would recommend you start fresh:

Do a factory reset:

Go to Settings / Update & Security / Recovery

You should see the option to „Reset this PC.“

***Make sure you have the windows recovery disk before proceeding.***

Click Get Started. Choose to Remove all Files and apps.

First off, of course you can wipe your PC, should be a normal routine.

Next no, the whole point of a HWW is to set up a new secure Seed (account wallet, mnemonic from entropy plus a secure passphrase Seed Recovery Phrase)

then transfer all your threatened assets to that new Account Wallet.

The wallet clients don’t matter so much, hardware can get destroyed NP, so long as your SRP is backed up safe and secret.

The seed is all they need, if you put a compromised seed on a Trezor, it is still compromised.

You need to move your Crypto to an uncompromised seed.

If you can’t trust the computer, don’t use it. Say you are buying something for crypto, e-shop tells you „send 1BTC to address 12345“, Trezor display confirms you are sending 1BTC to 12345, so all good? Nope, the address was supposed to be 67890, but the malware changed what your browser displays.

Once the malware finds (and decrypts) your metamask data, the seed is compromised and cannot be secured, after its exposed. You’d have to move your metamask secured coins to ones secured with Trezor (paired to metamask).

Once you moved them to Trezor-with-Metamask seed, the risk is near zero. Only major problems will be seed-phishing, contract-phishing or running old firmware with [a known firmware bug](https://trezor.io/security/)

If you solution to a potential virus or malware is buying a hardware wallet, you should NOT be investing in Cryptocurrency.

This is going to end badly for you.

I could „fix“ that with zero cost.

This thread seem like mess.

I didn’t at all write down the seed metamask produced, just putted there simple password i use everywhere. You sign transactions with trezor, so only matters your hardware wallet.

I recommend getting Trezor T, but the smaller one is also okay

if you can’t afford a computer that doesn’t have malware, how can you afford to mess around with crypto? this doesn’t make any sense

Malwarebytes is free and with a free premium trial

Hi, when you connect Trezor to Metamask, a new Trezor-protected account will appear in Metamask. The coins from this account can be spent only with Trezor.

The default Metamask account is still vulnerable (as it’s a hot wallet), but the Trezor account in Metamask will be safe even if you have Metamask installed on an infected computer, as Trezor never exposes your private keys (represented by a seed) online, and no virus from a computer can “enter” your Trezor.