I'm creating this thread because my wow account was hacked yesterday. I'm not wanting to complain or talk about getting my stuff back. What I do want to talk about is how they got my info.
I'm pritty good with computers and I have antivirus/mailware apps running and scaning on a weekly basis. I have a hardware Nat firewall and a software firewall running (windows firewall AND norton) I don't have any third party apps running such as bots or thottbot. I don't share my account with anyone other then my daughter and she doesn't get online unless I am there watching her (she is 11). I don't buy gold or anything like that so I can't figure out what happend.
Yesterday after I found out my account was hacked I did a FULL system scan for any viruses or spyware and all my scans came up clean. At this point I installed other spyware apps and avast to try and scan my system again. Nothing was found (I keep a pritty clean system because I run my apps every friday night). Today I'm going to buy a new hard drive AND windows 7 because I don't know what happend.
What I would like from you guys is an intelegent conversation about how this could have happend and how it can be prevented. I think its because of battlenet thats my opinion. The only reasion I think its battlenet is because of all the people getting there accounts hacked (just read the wow forums).
So again I don't want this thread to turn into a "don't buy gold" "don't use bots" "its a keyloger" (If its a keyloger I have no idea how to find it/remove it) thread I want to talk about how someone does this AND how we can protect ourselves from it happing in the first place. I have purchased an authinticator from Blizz and its on its way and I would recomend anyone that play's wow to get one (best 7 bucks you will ever spend).
I'm not going to format my old hard drive yet because I want to find the cause of this (in case it IS a virus or keyloger) so if you have suggestions on apps/programs that can find the infected files please post links to the site the program is found.
Thanks everyone!!!!
I'm pritty good with computers and I have antivirus/mailware apps running and scaning on a weekly basis. I have a hardware Nat firewall and a software firewall running (windows firewall AND norton) I don't have any third party apps running such as bots or thottbot. I don't share my account with anyone other then my daughter and she doesn't get online unless I am there watching her (she is 11). I don't buy gold or anything like that so I can't figure out what happend.
Yesterday after I found out my account was hacked I did a FULL system scan for any viruses or spyware and all my scans came up clean. At this point I installed other spyware apps and avast to try and scan my system again. Nothing was found (I keep a pritty clean system because I run my apps every friday night). Today I'm going to buy a new hard drive AND windows 7 because I don't know what happend.
What I would like from you guys is an intelegent conversation about how this could have happend and how it can be prevented. I think its because of battlenet thats my opinion. The only reasion I think its battlenet is because of all the people getting there accounts hacked (just read the wow forums).
So again I don't want this thread to turn into a "don't buy gold" "don't use bots" "its a keyloger" (If its a keyloger I have no idea how to find it/remove it) thread I want to talk about how someone does this AND how we can protect ourselves from it happing in the first place. I have purchased an authinticator from Blizz and its on its way and I would recomend anyone that play's wow to get one (best 7 bucks you will ever spend).
I'm not going to format my old hard drive yet because I want to find the cause of this (in case it IS a virus or keyloger) so if you have suggestions on apps/programs that can find the infected files please post links to the site the program is found.
Thanks everyone!!!!