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2nd account hacked, question?
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Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:00am
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2nd account hacked, question?
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Hi all, I'm a long time board stalker and infrequent poster. I have a question.
One of my secondary accounts was hacked tonight, only found out because Blizz sent
me an email verifying the password change.Here's my question, or questions..
What's the best free way to scan for key loggers? My two main accounts have authenticators
on them so I'm think I'm ok there.
Thoughts?
btw.. merry christmass....
Z
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Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:00am
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If you think your computer is comprised, best to wipe and reload the OS, then change your password to the account.
I played WoW for 4 years without a fob and never got hacked. Make sure once the OS is back on, you update the Flash/Java/Reader to the latest versions.
I read http://isc.sans.edu/ on a daily basis and also work as computer support for my full time job. Sometimes my users will click on some EXE that isn't even detected by ESET/NOD32 and they get infected. I usually just do a system restore to a point in time before they got infected and then when the virus signatures update several hours later, it will find and delete the now dormant virus files.
I would suggest upgrading to Windows 7 if you haven't already and leave UAC on. If you are still on XP, get something like Sandboxie to put IE in a sandbox. That's where most of the exploits come through ( Internet facing app).
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Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:00am
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Zariak posted:
One of my secondary accounts was hacked tonight, only found out because Blizz sent
me an email verifying the password change.
Before you do something utterly retarded like reinstall your operating system (I cannot believe someone claiming to be in tech support stated that as his FIRST option), did you actually go and verify the account was stolen or do you just have the email SAYING the password was changed?
I used to get those on a pretty much daily basis, on the rare occasions I looked in my spam folder. Needless to say, the password was still the same as it was before.
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-Kruugar-
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Registered: 2005-3-4 14:35:00
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Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:00am
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check the link in your email...
Resetting password scam gets you to enter your information to check your account... into a spoofed website.
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Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:00am
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Nope, I did check first, I tried to login and couldn't then tried to login to Bnet and couldn't.
I reset the password word via the secret question and there were two characters with odd names on servers
I don't play on. I had a spare authenticator and added it to the account.
Still brings me back to the original question. Blowing up my OS is one option but very time consuming.
The virus scanner didn't bring anything up that suspicious. Anyway still working on it.
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-Mithan-
Title: VNBoard Admin
Posts: 1,287
Registered: 2000-3-1 11:53:15
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It is too bad we can't just line up and shoot hackers.
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Date Posted:
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Before you do something utterly retarded like reinstall your operating system (I cannot believe someone claiming to be in tech support stated that as his FIRST option)
then...
The virus scanner didn't bring anything up that suspicious. Anyway still working on it.
So Perry Mason, now that was an "utterly retarded" suggestion, what's your next step?
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-Mithan-
Title: VNBoard Admin
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Registered: 2000-3-1 11:53:15
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Date Posted:
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Gr0uch0Marx posted:
Before you do something utterly retarded like reinstall your operating system (I cannot believe someone claiming to be in tech support stated that as his FIRST option)
then...
The virus scanner didn't bring anything up that suspicious. Anyway still working on it.
So Perry Mason, now that was an "utterly retarded" suggestion, what's your next step?
Not that I get many viruses, but I have found that reformating is usually easier, especially with todays virus's that usually can not be removed by a virus scanner.
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Rill_of_WE
Title: WoW Vault Site Manager
Posts: 557
Registered: 2002-8-6 09:16:33
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Date Posted:
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http://wowvault.ign.com/View.php?view=Guides.Detail&id=276
There's some scanning links in there for you.
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Date Posted:
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Rill_of_WE posted:
http://wowvault.ign.com/View.php?view=Guides.Detail&id=276
There's some scanning links in there for you.
Thx Rill that helps a lot.
Z
Edit: lol now the account has been banned. unreal.
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