The Eternal

I'm waiting for a gm to answer my ticket, but my toons with any money and anything sellable looks like they have all been raped.

I looked at the guild bank and it doenst look like there was much of anything taken from it, a few cheap items only as far as I can see....

in the meantime, until things are restored, I've gquit my chars.

And yes I have changed my account password.

I could have put you on traitor with no guild bank access.. that's where all the hacked peoples go.

Oh and you stole a stack of Fish Feasts among the other stuff. That's hardly NOTHING.

Really though there has yet to be a case where I did not get all the stuff back in mail that was stolen from the bank, so no worries.

I didn't see the fish feasts, and no one was on that could change my rank, so i thought it was prudent to not wait.

I was hacked recently too.

What porn sites did you go to so we can compare?

none, all I can think of is the Curse client.

Emails from blizz support tell me that everything is fixed and that items from the gb were emailed to you Atelo.

Back doors can get into your system tons of different ways other than porn sites. Mine was hacked years ago using a 3rd party Flash app on Google Pages.

Installing pirated games or software can do it. Just about anyone using Internet Exploder will get infected. What you need to do is use Firefox with NoScript. It's more work to "approve" of things you know are legit, but it prevents scripts from running from ads and such and it's certainly better than IE simply running every single script it can.

For some sites, NoScript blocks 10-20 other sites. Even a legit site such as Tom's Hardware that I go to a lot has an additional 10 sites that it blocks while surfing. You may be able to trust Tom's, but you can't really trust all those others and blocking them is good. It causes some compatibility issues too as you hit "temporarily allow" other sites until you find the one that makes the site works.

Anyway despite all the extra work I think it's worth it.

Get a Mac....enough said.

Poobah wrote:Get a Mac....enough said.

hahahahah

Only if your IQ is less than 80.

Curse client would only "hack your account" if someone slipped in an IE exploit into the ads they show, and any site you visited could have that exploit in the ads. They're too well known and too many people would be caught at the same time.

That's the most common thing to do that actually catches people actually. You get lots of far reaching exposure to people by infecting the ads put into a major ad provider's list of ads than anything else.

The other thing that might of happened is that someone hacked a site where you used the same email/password as you do for wow.

I run the AdBlock Plus addon for Firefox - blocks about 90% of all ads, everywhere, out of the box, and I manually kill the rest. Similar function with respect to protecting your system from malicious scripts, but doesn't block scripts from, for example, online banking sites. Same addon is available as a Google Chrome Extension, if you prefer that browser.