So the bad guys can just pick a random IP address out of the air and put a keylogger on your computer? Again, why haven't they done this to 90% of the people on the web, they would be gazillionaires. Is there no chance that you used your handle in vent the same as your account name? Is there no chance that you downloaded a helpful program for vent or WoW to help with your guild?

Again, the questions. You said you caught a virus, but was your anti-virus running the in the background (continuously monitoring)? You have a port open in your firewall/router for webpages, vent, etc. and they used what port to get in on? I was under the understanding that firewalls kept people out except on specific ports. You work for security people and you use what for browsing web pages and what malware blocking do you use? I understood that techies like firefox or opera or something. And they seem to brag about adblockers and noscript and such. Any of that working for you or just use IE with javascript enabled?

I mean damn, again, if what you say is true, we are all screwed. Sure we get a authenticator to stop WOW theft, but nothing stops any other misuse of our computers. If people have used computers for 10+ years and had no problems, then there seems like there should be a misstep that someone made if something goes wrong. You getting ganked is bad, but that doesn't help much if we don't have any info on what we can do to protect ourselves.

I admit, I had my alts on follow and they have fallen to their deaths. I have seen that my CPU was warm and thought, it must just be the room temp that heats it up and fried a chip. Yeah, the cooler fan's bearing/sleeve was going out. I have went to a few bad webpages and gotten like 10, then 20, the 30 pop windows that I almost couldn't stop from opening. I got pop-blocking right after that. I have screwed up, but at least I knew what happened. How come everyone, almost everyone's story that gets their accounts ganked, never ever did anything wrong? Does that make sense?