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Old 01/31/08, 7:51 AM   #69 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Shocktar View Post
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.
Shows how ineffective and overrated antivirus, constant password changing and firewalls are (I assume you had the last also). All it takes is running one insecure program for it all to fail, in this case UI Central's updater.
 
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