Re: What is Blizzard doing in my Addon Directory??

Sprite wrote:
> "Thomas J. Boschloo" <nospam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:4381b965$0$11068$e4fe514c@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>>David Carson wrote:
>>
>>>Thomas J. Boschloo wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Hmm: 1.8.0:
>>>>User Interface
>>>>
>>>>- To speed up game loading and reduce memory usage, several portions of
>>>> the UI have been converted to add-ons. These are completely
>>>> transparent to the player, but custom add-ons may need to be updated.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Didn't see a way to turn them off. Will WoW still work if you clear out
>>>>the AddOns directory? I had better not try..
>>>
>>>
>
>>I just don't like to detect changes to my system that I cannot explain.
>
>
> You can explain it, though, it's the patch, and it was in the patch notes.

The '.pub' files don't exactly resemble your average addon. And I
expected I could turn things off in the game (like the range of your
spells being indicated by a color). And I expected to be able to edit
the game addons myself if I wanted too.

I am not sure what 'completely transparent' means. Sounds like something
I learned in Software Engineering (opague). To me it means that the
addon would look like a normal addon and not like a small file.

[snip]

> repairs and it's the muppets who don't know a thing/don't do a thing that
> are the problem, not those that do actually bother to maintain their
> protection. In addition, chances are if someone is actually using Norton
> then they are using Norton Personal Firewall too, rather than ZoneAlarm. Or
> perhaps both, which means two firewalls.

I usually advice them to use ZoneAlarm and Avast or AVG (which is harder
to use). Yet they frequently fail to update their
virusdefinitions/engine or patch their system, even though Windows XP
SP2 complains about it with their red shield in the taskbar (which I see
when I visit them)

Funniest thing is when my sister called about a computer problem and I
tried to talk her through the kerio firewall I installed, which her
boyfriend turned out to have turned off because it kept having popups
when he used bittorrent <grin>

I use Kerio and no realtime scanning myself most of the time (I now have
Avast installed because the .pub files freaked me out)

> But please note the use of my word, "maintain". Those that have ZoneAlarm
> or somesuch just simply installed (probably by a friend of a friend who
> 'knows' about computers) are rarely ever taught to use it, or instructed
> that they must learn to do so. Most people on usenet I find are remarkably
> more well-clued up than the average computer user and as such are far more
> aware of the problems of viruses and spyware.

<quote> The question is not if you are paranoid, but if you are paranoid
enough </quote> ;-)

>>So why should you secure your computer properly. Well, BECAUSE YOUR
>>LEVEL 60 TOON IS WORTH BIG MONEY (sorry for shouting but it is
>>appropriate here). I don't have to tell most posters in this group that
>>it is worth hundereds of euros/dollars. To me my character is worth even
>>more!
>
>
> When did they say they weren't securing it properly, exactly?

Just a gut feeling (which I still have). And I am helping them solve it
in this thread, ain't I?

>>That you don't have any alarm bells ringing when you see a lot of
>>non-LUA addons when checking for new versions of addons you _do_ use
>>just means you are simple put: STUPID.
>
>
> OR.. they read the patch notes and knew what was coming. You didn't. End
> of.

I remembered it when I read Rexxx' post. It is just (much) different
than I expected it to me. I would have liked to be able to turn off
parts of the blizzard UI, just to see what it does.

I don't really understand why they did it in the first place. Maybe
patch 1.9 will clear things up for me.

hi,
Thomas
--
Gothika: "How can you trust someone who thinks you are crazy"
.

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