So I'm convinced Blizzard has security issues

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Turned off my 3rd party firewall and on I went to play.

Turned off the firewall (same product on both) and off it went.

So until things are fixed I play WoW with no firewall.

I followed their directions for opening the ports on the firewall.

One of these is not like the others.

[Dooz]

One of these is not like the others.

"One of these is just not the same."

I had a Capt. Kangaroo flash back.... made me lol.

[alcattle]

I followed their directions for opening the ports on the firewall.

One of these is not like the others.

Taken out of context, I meant that I tried their fix for my firewall blocking WoW access. That fix did not allow me to connect.

Edit: Might be best if I just shut up and go to the corner for a time out.

[Sbrowne55]

I had all 10 of my accounts hacked, It was a trojan keylogger. Which I'm certain was from visiting websites for my rogue and researching info about dps etc in IE.

I got keylogged after reopening 5 of my accounts through account mgmt. 2 hours later the hacks started, and I woke up the next day cleaned out. Now, I have read that some of you had your CC info hacked, and they actually used it. What exactly did they use your CC on?

I'm quite sure they probably got my CC too since I entered it 5 times. They were in my facebook, from a location in Poland... Which could have been spoofed. But my CC it hasn't been touched in a month. I figured these hackers would stear from using that sort of crime, as its punishable in other countries, unlike hacking wow accounts.

Let me know, I may go ahead and say there stolen to get new ones.

[alcattle]

Sorry to hear your loss, I would get the CC on alert at least and changed if it doesn't include other problems like automactic bill pay.
IE is your first mistake, a hack waiting to happen. Using one computer is always a problem, but you can prevent some things like keyloggers if you out smart them. Try a virtual machine and do not use that for WOW. Try linux. A live CD will stop some of the baddies. Get a netbook and use that for all but WOW.

[Tonuss]

I'm quite sure they probably got my CC too since I entered it 5 times.

I would strongly suggest that you report it and have a new number issued. It's not a major hassle to have your CC info stolen these days (assuming you have a card with a reasonable liability limit and good monitoring) but I don't think it's ever good to have that info sitting out there in someone else's hands. At the least, you can limit the damage that the CC company/bank is liable for, because over the long haul that increases costs for everyone.

[Malgor]

Now, I have read that some of you had your CC info hacked, and they actually used it. What exactly did they use your CC on?

They didn't use my credit card for a few months. Then suddenly it was being used for purchases around the $50 dollar range... daily for about a week before I noticed it.

Called my bank got it closed that day and got the forms and was reimbursed all that I lost which was about $250 total. Took some time though before I got the money back.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Taken out of context, I meant that I tried their fix for my firewall blocking WoW access. That fix did not allow me to connect.

Edit: Might be best if I just shut up and go to the corner for a time out.

Heh, BAD KITTY! NO COOKIE FOR JOO!

On a more serious note, if you tried opening the ports Blizzard specified and it did not fix your problems connecting, you either A) did something wrong, B) have something else interfering like a hardware firewall, or C) are using a really, really shitty software firewall like Norton's Internet Security, which has like 15 different "smart firewall" parts that sometimes tie together in strange ways causing things like RDP or file sharing to stop working when the parts that say RDP or file sharing are set correctly.

Norton.... /wrists /shotgun /C4enema

[alcattle]

Heh, BAD KITTY! NO COOKIE FOR JOO!

On a more serious note, if you tried opening the ports Blizzard specified and it did not fix your problems connecting, you either A) did something wrong, B) have something else interfering like a hardware firewall, or C) are using a really, really shitty software firewall like Norton's Internet Security, which has like 15 different "smart firewall" parts that sometimes tie together in strange ways causing things like RDP or file sharing to stop working when the parts that say RDP or file sharing are set correctly.

Norton.... /wrists /shotgun /C4enema

you tried opening the ports Blizzard specified and it did not fix your problems connecting. This is true
a) can't be positive I did that right
b) why did it only happen after the patch?
c) I use Panda software suite, was very highly rated.

d) same result on both computers- one I played with the port settings; other I did nothing. Turning off Panda firewall worked on both computers

HOWZ ME GIT COOKEY?