Hacked and banned

[yaki]

Not sure why anyone would choose to not have an authenticator.

I did until Blizzard stole mine.

[Ualaa]

Call billing.
See if they'll move four of your accounts to different B.Net accounts that are also yours.

One account per battlenet, is the way to go if you want to log into the game fast.
Or all your accounts on a single battlenet, if you want the integrated features.

Either way, you'll want the authenticator..

[yaki]

Good idea. I'll try that sometime when I have three hours to wait on hold, after setting up some Gmail accounts to register them on.

I haven't chucked the fob in the bin or anything...I'd really prefer to use it.

And what integrated features? Vaporware so far, as far as I know.

[zanthor]

To all of you goign on about multiple battle net accounts you have to keep in mind that the original intent of Bind to Account gear was to let it be bind to battle.net accounts... If they turn that on, you'll be hating having them spread out.

[Overpowerdin]

I am in IT so I deal with malware and crap all the time. I have seen users get stuff from the ads on google searches. Problem is the guys making this crap make more than the IT guys fighting it, so we can never seem to win. Malwarbytes is a good app, the purchased version blocks bad IPs like a spam filter when you are browsing so it helps if you ever decide to buy it. Its pretty cheap in my opinion. Microsoft has a new tool called Microsoft Essentials that is free if you have a legit copy of windows and works great. I hate to say I like a MS product, but it has almost no footprint and it works great.

I had been wondering about how the authenticators work with dual boxing, so thanks for the input on that.

[Oswyn]

Must do, it's the only way they work now.

A few minutes to log in all five accounts is nothing to have peace of mind with your accounts. As others mentioned before, you can do other things within the 30 seconds between entering in authenticators. Check mail with your main, check the forums, etc. Heck there's been many times where I totally forgot to finish logging my guys in because I'm busy with something else.

[Clone]

To all of you goign on about multiple battle net accounts you have to keep in mind that the original intent of Bind to Account gear was to let it be bind to battle.net accounts... If they turn that on, you'll be hating having them spread out.

Ill cross that bridge when I come to it, there is no bind on account items Id actually want to swap between chars at the mo. According to Blizz the leveling heirlooms wont work from 80-85 anyway. I wont be leveling any new teams anytime soon either and even if I do I have enough wintergrasp marks to buy about 5 sets of heirloom items per account.

It would take a lot for me to switch to a single battlenet account wasting all that time logging in. If you log in 6 times a week thats half hour of your life down the pan while you wait to log in.

30 mins per week = 26 hours per year, over 1 whole day of playtime!!

Enjoy ur 364 day year :P

[mikekim]

Ill cross that bridge when I come to it, there is no bind on account items Id actually want to swap between chars at the mo. According to Blizz the leveling heirlooms wont work from 80-85 anyway. I wont be leveling any new teams anytime soon either and even if I do I have enough wintergrasp marks to buy about 5 sets of heirloom items per account.

It would take a lot for me to switch to a single battlenet account wasting all that time logging in. If you log in 6 times a week thats half hour of your life down the pan while you wait to log in.

30 mins per week = 26 hours per year, over 1 whole day of playtime!!

Enjoy ur 364 day year :P

look at it from another perspective... How much time do you waste, in missed gametime and on the phone to blizzard, when you get hacked, and all your toons and gear get sold or deleted.

[Crel]

I feel for ya, but heyaz is right . I don't even have any anti-virus/detecting crap on my computer. Its true that its all over the place, but only if YOUR all over the place. Ive never had a virus or been hacked, play safe using common sense is all heyaz was getting at.
ALSO(knocks on wood)

[Starbuck_Jones]

Account security is fairly basic. First, change your Bnet logon email to something you use for only that. Grab a free gmail account or whatever, but dont use that account for anything. Make it as secure as you can with letters and numbers. Dont use the same email acc/pw that you use elsewhere on the tubes like facebook, or logons to you're favorite wow website.

Account Password should be MS Complex compatible at a minimum. Use upper and lower case letters, a number and a special character and at least 8 characters long.

Use a dedicated box to browse the web. Dont have one? then create a virtual machine and do your web browsing in there. Yea its extreme, but you gave your account information to the hacker either directly by signing up with the same info or downloading/clicking something that did.