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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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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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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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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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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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It is too bad we can't just line up and shoot hackers.
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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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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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http://wowvault.ign.com/View.php?view=Guides.Detail&id=276
There's some scanning links in there for you.
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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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Zariak posted:
Thx Rill that helps a lot.
Z
Edit: lol now the account has been banned. unreal.
I think that happens in most hacking cases, because your characters, and the characters they added were probably used to transfer funds and spam chat. Which is probably how they detected the hacking in the first place.
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Got a mail today a real one for once from blizzard. My account has been banned "Exploitative Activity Found?". I havent been logged into the account for 3-4 months. Pretty impressive tho, how they even got that password to begin with. Honestly i cant really say that i care that much. Here i thought i was "safe" and all that, using sandboxes, firewalls and what not. There was a thing a couple of weeks ago, my mail showed some "errors" that someone had been trying to log in a lot. Didnt really think that much of it. Even with access to the mail they wouldnt even have got the password in the first place due to the "secret" word.
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I don't know, I still can't figure out how they got the password.
I use abstract password, I've run every virus scan, key log tool,autoruns,
everything that anyone has told me to do i've done. I've never given out
my account info so I'm going to do a fresh install and move on.
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Beats me too. I am in the same boat. Havent logged on to the account since 17/08/10. However it showed recent activity about 10 hours ago. The usual routine striping the characters and running them to a major city from what i can see. In the end 3 level 1 characters was made and i can only guess what they were used for  . Im guessing they somehow hijacked my browser(since i dont really clear the sandbox that often) when i visisted wow site i probably got redirected to their crap. If i were "them" id make sure that all the "evidence" got removed after a successful login/password retrieval. So it would be close to impossible to even find out how they did it.
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