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Getting hacked alot this week.
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Post by
Garenzo
If you're hacked repeatedly in a short time, you can be 99% sure you've got a keylogger. Stop changing your info until you've managed to get rid of it.
Had the same problem a while ago and ended up doing a full system restore on the comp because I just couldn't get rid of the damn thing (needed it anyways) and then changed pass (and secret question) for both battle.net and my e-mail and it worked like a charm.
Post by
Pwntiff
If you installed WoW from Blizzard's site or the DVDs, it isn't WoW and reinstalling it won't help.
The authenticator will not 100% prevent you from being "hacked," but it will solve 99% of problems. You've probably got a keylogger from somewhere, and if anti-virus/spyware doesn't find and remove it, the only option is a reformat.
Post by
Itami
Sounds like you picked up a computer bug. If you never share you account then your computer is compromised, logging into other people's accounts is a bad idea as it will get them hacked too. Reinstalling WoW likely will do nothing. Running a thorough anti-virus/spyware sweep might help, reformatting would almost certainly nuke whatever it is.
Account sharing in and of itself does not give the hackers anything. Using any account on a computer that's compromised does, of course accounts being shared on multiple computers does increase the chance of running across an infected computer.
The authenticator will help but it's not 100% idiot proof. User end prevention is still the best way to not get hacked. But even if you do get hacked with an authenticator it will prevent them from putting their own auth on it and locking you out for days while you have Blizz sort it out.
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Post by
TheReal
Be sure to do those ^ in the opposite order suggested.
You have a keylogger most likely. Read my sig.
Post by
XxOmuraxX
Dont trust every addons in Curse, I have been hacked 1 time because of it. Wont happen again.
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335609
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Post by
Nyckxd
you have bigger things to worry about then your wow account being hacked. If you have a keylogger unplug your ethernet cord immediately..It will take your bank account info, paypal info, school info and steal your identity.
Do not plug it back in until you are 100% sure there is no keylogger.
Back on topic:
An authenticator will stop all hacking. 100% for your wow account. There is no way to decipher the algorythm on them without having back to back codes and working at them for a giant amount of time. (months).
I'm sure gold farmers have better things to do then decipher 1 authentication key for weeks on end.
Unless the hacker has your authenticator then you are in the clear. I can post up my login info right now and without my 8 digit authentication key no one can do anything to my account :D
I can even throw the code online and not really have any fears.
The token key generates a number that matches up to a RSA token ID on a blizzard authentication server. Every number will show up once and only have a valid life of about 3 minutes. It's 3 minutes because the server and the token sometimes get out of sync so they allow a buffer period of 1 minute beforehand and 1 minute after the fact. Any attempt to use that code not in that time frame will not work.
So a token will be 100% secure if you are the only one that has access to it.
Post by
TheReal
Unless someone gets extremely lucky and guesses your authenticator code or uses a man-in-the-middle attack. Put that 100% in your pipe and smoke it. Authenticators are the best security available, but there isn't a single method of security (or a combination of security methods) that is 100%.
Post by
atomicwolf22
Unless someone gets extremely lucky and guesses your authenticator code or uses a man-in-the-middle attack. Put that 100% in your pipe and smoke it. Authenticators are the best security available, but there isn't a single method of security (or a combination of security methods) that is 100%.
I totally agree.
As in the other post it was said that there is a brief window that would allow them to hack your account. So if there is a window then how is it 100% safe?
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304214
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Post by
HoleofArt
Doesn't your computer @#$%^ at you when you don't have any anti-virus with constant reminders something along the lines of, "Your computer is at risk. You do not have any anti-virus protection installed. Blah blah blah."?
I don't understand how you can just shrug that off for very long. I'd personally get annoyed by the constant reminders.
Post by
Dragoonman
McAfee is amazing :D
Post by
TheReal
McAfee is amazingly weaksauce :D
Fixed. Get Avast, Avira, or even MSE. They're all considered top-of-the-line by independent antivirus comparative organizations. Wanna know what's better? They're all free. I'll gladly save $50
AND
get better protection than McAfee. Thanks.
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335609
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Post by
Murrdurr
McAfee is amazingly weaksauce :D
Fixed. Get Avast, Avira, or even MSE. They're all considered top-of-the-line by independent antivirus comparative organizations. Wanna know what's better? They're all free. I'll gladly save $50
AND
get better protection than McAfee. Thanks.
^ this McAfee is for suckers
Post by
thelaks
In other news, I was hacked this morning. :P
07/16/2010
Oh, and people are dumb and get their information phished most of the time. People doing silly things is not something Blizzard has control of.
Dummy.
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