Re: Keylogger warning


"Mickey" <mickeyb@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Aug 24, 4:15 pm, C J Campbell
<christophercampbellremovet...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 2009-08-24 09:45:04 -0700, DarkRose <swa...@xxxxxxxxxx> said:





Let this be a lesson to all:
About 2 months ago our GuildMaster got keylogged and lost control of
his account, his toons and out Guild Bank all got cleaned out. After
it was all straightened out by Blizzard, we (the guild) all
recommended he do a full format of his HDD and re-install everything.
He did not. He said his virus scanner caught and removed the
keylogger.
Saturday morning (Aug. 22) at 10:20 am EST, he lost his account
again... He and his g/f are on vacation atm, and are attempting to do
what they can via phone with no computer access (not sure where they
are vacationing).
Let the lesson be learned... After being hacked/keylogged, ALWAYS
reformat and start from scratch, it's the only way...
As an aside, he's been logged in for 3 days solid now, in Storm Peaks;
no one can locate his toon, even using Carbonite to attempt to track
him (I guess it can do that?) With him not being booted, that means
some activity must be taking place, what the hell is his toon doing?
Mining bot???

How do you know that it was a keylogger? Which keylogger was it? How
did it get there? If you don't know that, then you don't know that it
was a keylogger. You are just guessing.

More likely the account was phished or somebody hacked his email
account or someone managed to persuade a customer service rep at
Blizzard to let them have access to his account. In that event,
reformatting the hard drive would be useless.

Also, reformatting the hard drive is not always possible. Many
computers ship without disks these days, making restoration of the OS
impossible.

Anyone who buys a PC without an OS install disk gets what they
deserve... just my opinion, YMMV.

Mickey


Hey Mickey *wave*

What is this "buy" an OS you speak of? I haven't paid for one since dos
3.something. Microsloth may get me with windows 7 but nothing up till now
has been worth paying for

Gumby619


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