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Talgog · 01/26/08, 10:52 AM

A good place to start is to educate your members - all of them - on how not to do stupid things on the Internet. WoW-specific BadStuff(TM) is of course going to be mostly found on WoW and gaming related sites, but there are also broader keylog and hacker attempts aimed at information that's usually far more valuable than someone's WoW account or even their guild bank.

Run heavy security programs including a restrictive firewall and don't click on garbage. When your browser or your security system throws up a block, at least think about why it is doing that, and if what you want to see/download is remotely worth the potential loss of thousands of dollars, credit history damage, etc.

There's also the moron password problem - it wasn't necessary to hack your account because someone who knew something about you could guess it fairly easily. Let alone "I gave it out to my buddy and I didn't know that he posted it on a Post-It note near the entrance of his dorm room so that he didn't forget it."

WoW "hacks" that aren't related to downloading shit onto your computer are going to be either a stupidly easy name/password combo or bad log-in info security. Truly "random" WoW account hacks without malicious software on your own computer are damn near impossible because of how WoW account access works. Anyone with the horsepower to even attempt that has much better things to steal. Odds are that anyone who says that this has happened to them either doesn't realize that they compromised their own security or is lying through their teeth.

Your username shouldn't be the same as any of your characters, and your password should be at least 10 digits long, use no dictonary words and as complex as a given site will let you make it.

There is no truism that "everyone is going to be hacked someday" anymore than "Everyone will be in a car accident someday" or "Everyone gets STD's". All are overwhelmingly related to moron behavior.

01/26/08, 10:52 AM	#14 (permalink)
Talgog Piston Honda Talgog Night Elf Warrior <Berserk> Archimonde	A good place to start is to educate your members - all of them - on how not to do stupid things on the Internet. WoW-specific BadStuff(TM) is of course going to be mostly found on WoW and gaming related sites, but there are also broader keylog and hacker attempts aimed at information that's usually far more valuable than someone's WoW account or even their guild bank. Run heavy security programs including a restrictive firewall and don't click on garbage. When your browser or your security system throws up a block, at least think about why it is doing that, and if what you want to see/download is remotely worth the potential loss of thousands of dollars, credit history damage, etc. There's also the moron password problem - it wasn't necessary to hack your account because someone who knew something about you could guess it fairly easily. Let alone "I gave it out to my buddy and I didn't know that he posted it on a Post-It note near the entrance of his dorm room so that he didn't forget it." WoW "hacks" that aren't related to downloading shit onto your computer are going to be either a stupidly easy name/password combo or bad log-in info security. Truly "random" WoW account hacks without malicious software on your own computer are damn near impossible because of how WoW account access works. Anyone with the horsepower to even attempt that has much better things to steal. Odds are that anyone who says that this has happened to them either doesn't realize that they compromised their own security or is lying through their teeth. Your username shouldn't be the same as any of your characters, and your password should be at least 10 digits long, use no dictonary words and as complex as a given site will let you make it. There is no truism that "everyone is going to be hacked someday" anymore than "Everyone will be in a car accident someday" or "Everyone gets STD's". All are overwhelmingly related to moron behavior.