I just got hacked two weeks ago and I have never shared my password or username with anyone and I have the username on remember so I dont type it to avoid keyloggers though it still happened and now my account is still closed due to all the paperwork you have to do to recover it.

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This happened to a guild-mate a week ago. The hacker took all of his chars' stuff and cleaned out our guild bank except for the gold. Luckily we have a set limit of how much can be withdrawn. I was able to report to a GM and everyone got everything back a few days later.

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Umm, didn't you post this same thing yesterday? Different link but the page content is the same.

http://www.wowinsider.com/2008/02/22/anti-gold-seller-faq-page-goes-up-at-the-official-eu-site/

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3 things you need to use. Firefox, ClamAV for windows and NoScript Addon for Firefox..

The keyloggers are installed by browsing a site with javascript that downloads and installs the keylogger without you realising it. The script is often installed deliberately on the site, or its installed on a hacked site through cross-site scripting or 0 pixel IFRAME's.

The NoScript addon for firefox works by default denying javascript to run. You get to choose which scripts run, and which domains can run scripts. I deny scripts from domains i dont know or trust.

This isnt 100% effective, but it will help out alot.

Secondly, be very careful the addons you use in WoW itself.

I recommend ClamAV because most of the big name virus vendors are crap, they dont detect alot of things. No vendor is going to detect everything and the bad guys have alot of keyloggers no one will detect, but I have found ClamAV to be the best.

I work in the security field, specifically application securty and the above are the precautions I take. Your never going to be 100% safe, but you can make yourself alot less of a simple target.

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That EU though, so a lot of people probably ignored it. :P
Honestly, I'm not so sure it's people buying gold that this is happening to. I'm thinking that it is an exploit in addons, actually. I believe I read that lots of people using CentralUI are having this problem, and people who only use Curse for addons. I have heard it from WoWAce people, however, which is why I haven't updated in forever. I am thinking that there is a Lua exploit that allows these hackers access to your registry, or possibly just to another program that has access to it. My guess is that it was uploaded on to Curse as an addon, and put inside a working addon itself. Also, I believe it was put onto Addon programs this way as well. That's just my theory, however.

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The demand for gold will not stop until the crooked and greedy practice of stretching a games content out to fill monthly subscription coffers subsides.

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Does Blizzard REALLY think people care about this?


Honestly, this is no more effective than saying "Don't do drugs!" or "Robbery is bad!"

Is it bad, probably, do the people who do it care, not in the slightest.

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this is why i don't install any addons or doing the gold or power level things. they are not trustworthy.

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Ummm...here's an idea...disable the stupid free trial accounts...with 10 million people playin the game now you would think word of mouth/tv ads would be more than enough to bring new players into the game.

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I bought enough platinum in Everquest to know that not only does it hurt the economy, but it's actually pretty futile.

All the money you spend on having the best gear, it just gets replaced by better gear that's unpurchaseable, especially in the higher levels. And if you're in the lower levels, it's pretty easy to just outlevel all that gear anyway. And if you're not spending it on gear, what are you buying? Tradeskill mats? To do what with, exactly?

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