Re: How Does One Get Hacked?
- From: Urbin <urbin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 25 Jan 2010 15:07:12 GMT
On Mon, 25 Jan 2010 06:41:43 -0800 (PST), neithskye wrote:
On Jan 22, 2:48=A0pm, neithskye
<jill_bookerGREENEGGSANDS...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I thank everyone for their replies. A lot went over my technologically-
challenged head, but I got the basic gist. These guildies and friends
of mine, I can't believe every single one of them would be so foolish
as to fall for a phishing scam; on the other hand, last night I was
shocked when someone I'd known for a while said something along the
lines of, he was running out of gold, time to buy some more.
Ouch. Time to have a stern word with them or even kick them from the guild
maybe.
I don't have Firefox; I'll look into that. Since I am computer
illiterate, I tend not to "mess around" with settings and such for
fear of "breaking" something - hope installing a different browser is
a simple process.
It's pretty easy:
- go to www.mozilla.com
- you should get a suggestion which browser to download (typically your
operating system and language/country are detected correctly)
- download "Firefox Setup x.x.exe" where x.x is the version, I think the
most recent one is 3.6
- when that is done, start the setup program
- as part of installation, it will ask you if it should copy across your
favorites (Firefox stores them in a different place than IE), say yes
- as part of installation (or on first start?) it will ask if it should
be made "default browser" and if it should keep checking that it is,
say yes to both
That's it. Whenever you now click on a link, Firefox should be started up
instead of IE.
You shouldn't have any problem viewing almost every website out there,
except for those that rely on some windows-active-objects that make
IE so unsafe. The only one that comes to mind is the microsoft windows
update site, but I haven't manually installed windows updates in years (all
done automagically), so that isn't really an issue.
If you want to make browsing with Firefox even more secure I can recommend
the "noscript" plugin, though configuring that is a little tricky at times,
and as you say that you are "computer illiterate" that may be a bit tricky
:) I still haven't figured out how to set it up so the official Blizzard
pages work without using the "temporarily disable all restrictions" feature
of it (@PV, I know you're NoScript savy, so if you know a trick, I'll gladly
listen :)
On the other hand, if you are competent enough to understand a complex game
like WoW, I don't see how you wouldn't be able to figure out how to install
and use NoScript!
I do have one thing going for me: my WoW password is unique (don't use
it for anything else), and has so many characters (uppercase,
lowercase and numbers), with my keyboard being old, the lettering has
rubbed off on some keys, and it often takes me several tries to type
in my own password. :P
That's a good start. Try to also use an e-mail address that you use for
nothing else, so you know that all mail to that address is from Blizzard and
that any mail not to that address is *not* from Blizzard, that should make
it pretty hard to fall for even the most refined phishing attempt.
Cheers
Urbin
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