Quote Originally Posted by 'Eldi',index.php?page=Thread&postID=154128#post154 128
My acount got hacked once and i dont know how i dont go to website other that myspace google facebook thottbot and wowhead. i have a laptop for the unsafe ones. and i never give my info out but i got hacked 25k gold all epics and twinkgear everything gone. i guess i owned in pvp to much. :( but this authenticator sounds like a good idea now do i need one per acount? or one for all 10 accounts?
Both of those sites are a cesspool created for the procreation of idiocy and trojans. While face book is better, MySpace was VERY poorly coded when it comes to security in favor of ease of use for the users creating the site. This allows for anyone and everyone to drop what ever they want into embedded links and flash on the site.

Just because you know the name of a website, just because everyone knows the name of the website does not meaen the site is safe to go to without protection.

If you must browse on your gaming pc, take a few steps to help protect you.
1: Do not run Internet Explorer (I know lots of people will scream at this, but the simple fact is ActiveX is one of the worst implementations of client side scripting being used)
2: If you can, run firefox with a couple add-ons
a: Add-Block (a black list of known malware sites and banner sites, this keeps many embeded links from every being downloaded by your computer)
b: No-Script (a per site script whitelist. It blocks all scripts until you explicitly tell it to allow a site. This keeps embeded malware from installing on your system)
3: Run a blacklist software, I use Spyware blaster, it is free to use, very low cost for automatic updates
4: Run an active spy ware scanner (I use Ad-Aware, also free to use, cery low cost for automatic scanning)
5: Run a good virus scanner with up to date virus signature database (I use Avast! free for home users and very low resource usage)

And while no one ever listens to me when I say this... stay away from the social networking sites. At least ones that allow users to create their own content.