That's too rich...

Blizzard, Blizzard, Blizzard...

If they do end up blocking links entirely, I'll be sad. I don't see an all-around block helping tons (although people might actually think about where they're surfing to if they need to copy-paste), but rather it's time to instate some kind of pre-viewer of websites to scan a page for viruses, trojans, and other background badness before the user's browser loads the webpage.

It's a touchy subject, this keylogging problem. Going too far with protection will anger the forum user base, but being too lax will get people hacked and put a heavier load on the GMs. What to do?

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lawl, another reason i never click on anything if i dont know what it is...

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Well thank christ is all I can say. Now it's finally bitten Blizzard on the ass maybe they'll start doing something about it instead of just pretending.

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Or, just use a platform that's not susceptible to this...

Or avoid the WoW forums. =D

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Ya know, part of me thinks it is just Blizz testing the keyloggers to see how they work.

I mean, c'mon, they can't be THAT ignorant :P

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ROFLMAO -- Blizzard Community people gets hacked? That's too freaking funny!! Blue (im)Posters!?!??! And of course, what does Blizzard do, they take the sledge hammer approach!

That's so like them -- instead of checking if they're out of gas when their cars stop running, they just haul them to the junkyard and turn them into metal cubes and declare them worthless! Much like themselves...

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All Blizzard CMs should post using Macs rather than PCs. Though Macs could just as easily be hacked, no one targets them. :)

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What people CAN do is goto google, search the website and then click Cached under the description. It will bring up a screenshot of said page!

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wow

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I clicked on the one that Neth posted just randomly because it was the only blue post I saw up at the time I was on the forums. It was a link to a youtube video where they parellel the in game dances to the real life dances.

If I get a keylogger from that it will be so not cool.

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there is one simple solution for this.
JUST MAKE EVERY ACCOUNT DO AN IP CHECK .

i mean most peeps play from the same adress all the time.
if not they just login on the site request another ip added from where they want to play.
blizz send them a message to the regged email adress to confirm.
if they now want to hack your account they have to hack your whole pc.

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Email to the registered adress on password change - that´s by far the best and most common approach to such problems.

Without the password change an account hack is almost worthless.

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I could care less if they totally did away with links in the forums. Honestly, what would you lose? 2-click access to a rickroll or keylogger (1 click to hit the link, 1 click to hit "proceed" on their interceptor).

As for angering the forums userbase... Is that really an issue? Nothing will ever please that group of bottom-feeders. And honestly, it would affect a *very* small portion of the WoW population. Forum users fail to realize they are the extremely vocal minority in almost any community. So if it pisses off the forum users, it's only because they're not seeing the instant benefit: slowing down the spread of keyloggers. Which, granted, isn't nearly as big of a problem as it's made out to be.

... Although hearing that two of the CM's got hit with em tends to make me lose even more faith in humanity, as it pertains to WoW. Next we'll hear about GM's, possibly even Dev's getting hit with em. At which point... well... use your imagination.

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Use a Mac. Seriously, now that they can boot XP, theres no reason not to just get one to avoid a chance of getting something like a keylogger. when you're done playing WoW, switch back to XP.

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@11

Some of us have dynamic IPs, especially in countries that aren't America.

Now a country of origin check, that might be more helpful. Granted it'll annoy the travelers, but Blizzard seems to ban them anyway, avoiding that with email checks would be a nicer alternative.

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yeh but if you get a mail where you are asked if you change your pasword. and you didnt i think the hacker already have you login en already cleaned out your account?
maybe an option so you can choose for an ip check if you want or an mac code or whatever its savest way and easiest .

or maybe an electronic fingerprint file on your pc so that when you login and you dont have the fingerprint file you cant login. (in case you lose the file you can ask for new one and it wil be send to your email adress.) so hackers just dont get to log on your account just an idea .

btw a tip would be remembering your login name on login screen (option in lowerleft corner) and only type pasword so when they even log your keys they only have the pass but they dont know wich acount it belongs to so they cant login either.

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Only idiots get keyloggers or other hacker programs installed on their systems. Ergo, Blizzard employees are, well, you get the point...

Once again, it's all the freaking democrats in the crowd making rules to save people from ther hapless selves -- let the people be, it's survival of the fittest (or the smartest, in this case). If you're stupid, you deserved it!

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Oh how I love thy noscript.

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Hah! I love those sex girl links, I click on them on my iMac and get to keep my account :)

-Gritz

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As far as I know the majority of WoW players had problems with keyloggers before, so I deem this time, after they assumed the measures and installed anti-keyloggers, keyloggers were unable to damage their systems. But it is funny to find out that Blizzard community managers haven't done that, maybe they should visit something like http://anti-keylogger.org now and finally protect their PCs ?:)

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