Hacked and banned

[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.

[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.

[Ualaa]

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.

I doubt I'll waste any time, on the phone from being hacked.

I have five accounts, on five battlenet emails.
After my authenticator code is used, it is invalid.

Because I have five B.Net's, I can use the same code simultaneously on the five accounts.
Because I log all five on at the same time, the code is invalid for any account after its used.
I suppose, if I were hacked/keylogged, and only logged in one or three accounts - there would be a 30 second or less window of opportunity to be hacked, on the remaining accounts.

I have the same security with my authenticator, as any one else has with theirs.

I suppose, purely guessing with a million to one odds, anyone with an authenticator could be hacked.
But then, every account on the same B.Net or across five B.Net accounts, has this same level of security.