Dont want to be hacked on bittrex and other exchanges -read this short post.

2 simple precautionary steps could save you from being hacked.

  1. Create a shortcut on your desktop or save it as a bookmark in your browser to https://bittrex.com and only use that to get to the exchange don't trust google to bring up the right bittrex at the top

  2. If you are on windows find your hosts file, right click it and click on properties. Click on read only attribute and click save. This will prevent anything from modifying this file and creating a redirect to send you to phishing sites. Hosts is usually at %Systemdrive%\Windows\System32\drivers\etc

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