Hacked and banned

[Naxxz]

how the hell do you guys keep getting hacked like every day? Stop clicking the wii sex toy links ffs.

Actually, better yet - stop signing up on peoples' forums/sites with your email and same password - oldest trick in the book.

I just have trouble believing, especially as a security analyst that works with this kind of stuff, that these keyloggers and malware are not easy to avoid. I don't even run anti-virus.

Two factor authentication is nice, but also not falling for malware scams that explicitly require you to take action (rather than just propagating themselves unbeknownst to you).

Also most modern anti-virus and anti-whatever never find a thing, even when you are compromised. Their blacklisting approach is flawed, and the heuristics are just fail. I ran every major anti-whatever for years and they never found a single piece of malware, not even once - and this is when I used to use file sharing programs which are littered with malware. You can even build a test box, put known malware on it and watch modern AV's fail to detect anything.

No offence mate but im not stupid, I dont do any of the things you mention above, i've never clicked on a scammers link, do not use torrents( i Know you didn't say this but I thought I should say it anyway) and I certainly dont sign up to websites with my wow email and password.
If Keyloggers where as easy to avoid as you say then I and many others would not be in this situation.

The only thing I do on this computer apart from wow is stream tv and read these forums...I also shop.

[Gadzooks]

No offence mate but im not stupid, I dont do any of the things you mention above, i've never clicked on a scammers link, do not use torrents( i Know you didn't say this but I thought I should say it anyway) and I certainly dont sign up to websites with my wow email and password.
If Keyloggers where as easy to avoid as you say then I and many others would not be in this situation.

The only thing I do on this computer apart from wow is stream tv and read these forums...I also shop.

Is your Flash installation up to date? They're also infecting banners, which get spread everywhere. They're even making legit looking banners from other companies, and paying to have them put into banner pools, and boom, people are infected.

Makes me glad I use a Mac...for now, I know they're gonna figure out how to hit us eventually.