Originally Posted by Shalas
Smart, computer-savvy people are not in serious danger of getting keylogged. There's a very wide range between that and complete idiots, though. Officers are generally chosen based on things like leadership capability, not IT knowledge.
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I disagree. I'm an IT professional (and GM), and it happened to me. I had the full on AVG antivirus, a computer that I play on that I *never* surf the web on, password changes every month, and I still got keylogged. As it turns out, it was from UI Central, an updater that I'd been using for a year with no issues whatsoever, when all of a sudden one of the ads had an embedded worm.
Fortunately, I found it after a night's worth of Google, but it's still very very possible. It went right through all my security measures instantly, despite the fact that I never do ANYTHING on that machine but play wow and 2142, and I still use tons of protection. The way I see it, people are going to have their accounts compromised, regardless of what you do to assume they're smart and savy. The best way is to plan for the worst, if that means an extra five minutes of work to get something for a non-officer, so be it.
In COH, I'm the only one with unlimited access. Everyone else is limited to 100g/day (officers only), and 3 stacks of removal, period. I cannot fathom something beyond a massive crafting binge that would require more than 3 stacks of anything that another person couldn't help out on, and whenever I get a request like that, I'm always suspicious.