{"id":422,"date":"2008-02-19T18:34:24","date_gmt":"2008-02-19T23:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.staronion.com\/maiev\/nfblog\/?p=422"},"modified":"2010-07-14T15:39:49","modified_gmt":"2010-07-14T20:39:49","slug":"wows-account-hacking-spree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.staronion.com\/maiev\/nfblog\/?p=422","title":{"rendered":"WoW&#8217;s Account Hacking Spree!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WoW&#8217;s Account Hacking &#8216;~&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Now that Final Fantasy finally dealt with&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bluegartrls.com\/forum\/viewtopic.php?f=2&amp;t=29579\" rel=\"nofollow\"> restoring accounts + items<\/a>, the WoW hacking begins lol. There&#8217;s been numerous people around the WoW community, including those people that even write huge website&#8217;s blog.. got hacked. They&#8217;ve practice safe surfing and still got <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wowinsider.com\/2008\/02\/15\/breakfast-topic-hacked\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">their account&#8217;s jacked<\/a>&#8230; and it comes down to&#8230; the gadgets that you buy.. come pre-installed with trojans.<\/p>\n<p>Although FFXI isn&#8217;t really targeted.. since its only 5% of the WoW population but.. still take precaution. Blizzard has been owning those gil farmers to the stage where they also resort to liquidate accounts for quick and easy gold.<\/p>\n<p>So much for safe surfing.. but if your new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.massively.com\/2008\/02\/17\/did-you-give-the-gift-of-a-hacked-account\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">digital-picture frame&#8217;s software came with a damn trojan<\/a>.. then it doesn&#8217;t matter if you have your no-script or use Firefox. What about your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.massively.com\/2007\/11\/13\/virus-on-maxtor-hdds-targets-mmo-players\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">new bought hard drive came with nasty trojans<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Its nasty and scary&#8230; but we need to be aware of it :) I&#8217;m not a professional security expert&#8230; but again here are some tips that&#8230; I found on the internet in securing your accounts.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Use an On-Screen keyboard to enter Passwords. There are ones that is anti-mouse recording, eg different size keyboard everytime you load. Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.raymond.cc\/blog\/archives\/2007\/09\/20\/how-to-beat-keyloggers-to-protect-your-identity\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">whole website about.. anti-keylogger software<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Practice Safe Surfing with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.com\/en-US\/firefox\/?from=getfirefox\" rel=\"nofollow\">Firefox <\/a>+ <a href=\"http:\/\/noscript.net\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">No Script Addon<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Use a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.softpedia.com\/get\/Security\/Security-Related\/Process-Guard.shtml\" rel=\"nofollow\">Process Guard<\/a>&#8230; to know which application is trying to modify your PlayOnline Software.<\/li>\n<li>Scan and do Windows Update, and unisntall un-necessary software, so less chance of a security flaw on your PC<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Did You Know?<\/p>\n<p>That your WoW&#8217;s Launcher is not just a PlayOnline launcher, but its also an <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Warden_(software)\" rel=\"nofollow\">Anti-Cheat Scanner<\/a> (Warden), its also a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wowwiki.com\/Blizzard_Launcher\" rel=\"nofollow\">Virus Scanner<\/a> itself that scans for common keylogger software upon launch? Although it won&#8217;t catch the latest keylogger, but it does provide an additional layer of &#8220;weak&#8221; defense. Better than our POL, does nothing but slows down our login speed :o<\/p>\n<p>If you have WoW installed, run the launcher once awhile :) Its a quick way to check for common game trojans :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WoW&#8217;s Account Hacking &#8216;~&#8221; Now that Final Fantasy finally dealt with&#8230; restoring accounts + items, the WoW hacking begins lol. There&#8217;s been numerous people around the WoW community, including those people that even write huge website&#8217;s blog.. got hacked. They&#8217;ve practice safe surfing and still got their account&#8217;s jacked&#8230; and it comes down to&#8230; the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[1300],"class_list":["post-422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-of-warcraft","tag-nobody"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>WoW&#039;s Account Hacking Spree! - the StarOnion - FFXI Fenrir to FFXIV Excalibur<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.staronion.com\/maiev\/nfblog\/?p=422\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Maiev\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.staronion.com\/maiev\/nfblog\/?p=422\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.staronion.com\/maiev\/nfblog\/?p=422\",\"name\":\"WoW's Account Hacking Spree! 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