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Twisted Nether Blogcast » Blog Archive » Episode 2-Hax and Haelz — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 01:30:46 +0000

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By: Galoheart

Galoheart — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 02:39:46 +0000

Im a Mac user and don’t use any windows PC. I’m being vegiliant even though I use a Mac because if crap can happen it will try and find a way to happen eventually or try to.

Everybody needs to do things to protect their fun time hard earned Investment in their WoW character and their guildbank resources. It dampen the game a bit when everyday you hear keyloggers are stealing and outright rapeing players accounts for their item assets and gold. It sucks! Everyone needed to do simple things to protect themselves to being at risk of loosing their accounts due to malicious acts by keyloggers.

Lots of great info here in comments to heed by all and everyone guildmates. Its my thinking this problem will only continue to get worse in WoW with account stealing. You have to wonder how bad it has to get for all the player base in WoW before Blizzard try to implement added security measures for all its paying customers.

By: Khore

Khore — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 12:18:58 +0000

I would like to comment on what many others have mentioned… I honestly do not believe it is an inside job… I play on a different realm and we are having the exact same issues. In addition, we (in our guild) have checked many other realms and found that it is pretty much an issue across WoW. Do not get me wrong… I am not saying it CANNOT be an inside job (in fact I have suggested the same thing in my guild before I did any research of my own), just not likely. As far as the posting, that has gone on here… I have linked this page to my guild site and have asked them to read it because there is some awesome input here. Thanks BRK, and to the others who have posted!

By: Clarkkers

Clarkkers — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 07:54:21 +0000

Great tips about keyloggers. I wonder though if WoW players that blog are more at risk, since they present their toonname and realm on display (most of the time) bringing it to attention moreso than use unfamous players.

Though I love your blog and others like, don’t stop giving us noobs good tips.

By: TrojanGuy

TrojanGuy — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 18:54:45 +0000

The funny thing about you saying to get Firefox (which I use 99.9% of the time) instead of IE is that your google search tool doesn’t seem to work in Firefox. I can only get it to work if I switch Firefox’s rendering engine to IE (using the IETab extension).

By: Flaime

Flaime — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 18:51:20 +0000

Another thing you can add:

https://psi.secunia.com/

This is a free scanner that will check your system for unpatched applications vulnerable to attack.

By: Papaoomowmow

Papaoomowmow — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 02:38:37 +0000

3 in one guild? You should pack each guild toon (other than the honest officers of course) in cement and throw em in darkshore waters….any who float are guilty…those who drown are innocent. ( horde point of view)

I have tried many security setups over the years. The best I have used I have now….the 2008 Norton Security suite ( I used to hate Symantec)….it is especially good at detection and removal of keyloggers + I also use the hardware firewall (belt and suspenders) in a fast gaming router…the DLink DGL 4100 ( give it a STRONG password and keep firmware updated). Whatever version of XP or Vista …if you have a MS OS…that you use, keep it on auto security update. That goes for any security software too. Set autoscan for daily use.

And like BRK says, watch where you browse and don’t be clicking on email links unless you know the sender well.

Not even an unplugged computer is completely secure of course ( somebody could sneak in and steal the hard drive)…but you can get pretty close.

BTW, my security suite is not real crazy about many of the things that the WOW program does…..but I guess WOW is harmless….Blizzard means well.

By: emptycloud

emptycloud — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 23:48:53 +0000

@brk – Sadly, even your list isn’t fail safe. While running firefox with noscript, spybot, and avg antivirus all up and running, I got bit with a nasty Chinese keylogger, and 5 corresponding registry hacks, from clicking on a fake .jpg file posted on the wow hunter forums.

After landing on a fake google page with a .cn address, I read the other posts in the thread, and learned that I had probably been infected. Noscript was no protection. I was able to detect the malware with the trial edition of Spyware Doctor. To remove it, I had to buy a commercial version of the software on a clean computer.

I no longer trust that any of the freeware options can adequately protect against the most sophisticated of the current generation of keyloggers.

@z-man – I’ve heard that some recent keyloggers also record any information placed on your clipboard, so I wouldn’t rely on the copy paste method to protect you.

By: Lynda

Lynda — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 21:54:26 +0000

I read about this on TJ’s blog. One of the things I have also heard is to beware of mods you are not familar with, because keyloggers could be hiding in them.

In other words, if you ask in your guild about a mod and no one has heard of it, it might be a good idea to avoid it.

By: z-man

z-man — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 21:24:59 +0000

An even better low level gaurd against keyloggers. Cut and paste your password.

Since I use a hot key all the keylogger will see is ctrl-v.