Hacked and banned

[Gadzooks]

No offence mate but im not stupid, I dont do any of the things you mention above, i've never clicked on a scammers link, do not use torrents( i Know you didn't say this but I thought I should say it anyway) and I certainly dont sign up to websites with my wow email and password.
If Keyloggers where as easy to avoid as you say then I and many others would not be in this situation.

The only thing I do on this computer apart from wow is stream tv and read these forums...I also shop.

Is your Flash installation up to date? They're also infecting banners, which get spread everywhere. They're even making legit looking banners from other companies, and paying to have them put into banner pools, and boom, people are infected.

Makes me glad I use a Mac...for now, I know they're gonna figure out how to hit us eventually.

[Multibocks]

you guys are making me worried. I've never had a virus, but that isnt slowing down the paranoia!

[zenga]

Not wanting to start a flame war or so, and no offence, but I really cant understand why people still stick to windows when i read stuff like this. There is an alternative, that is free, easy to use/setup, looks fancy (in case you should care), performs better and has no security problems at all ...guess which one

[Seldum]

If everyone used linux, linux users would have the same problem - if not even worse (yes, I have no evidence to back up that statement).

Anyways, sorry to hear you got hacked

Me happy I got the authenticator even though loggin in is a bit of a pain now.

Hope you'll get everything fixed.

Makes me wonder if I should get an authenticator to my webbank.

[yaki]

Not wanting to start a flame war or so, and no offence, but I really cant understand why people still stick to windows when i read stuff like this. There is an alternative, that is free, easy to use/setup, looks fancy (in case you should care), performs better and has no security problems at all ...guess which one

Secure as a box of bricks, and runs my software just as well as a...box of bricks.

[Overpowerdin]

Not wanting to start a flame war or so, and no offence, but I really cant understand why people still stick to windows when i read stuff like this. There is an alternative, that is free, easy to use/setup, looks fancy (in case you should care), performs better and has no security problems at all ...guess which one

As much as I dont like MS, it will be the majority because that is what most companies have to deal with to get custom software, bussiness apps and such. And the fact that most of the COs that own these companies are old timers with stock in MS, well it doesnt help. And a majority of the PC owners today have to work on windows they dont want to go home to something else that have to "learn"

[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.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Okay, see, the problem with what you're saying is that you never mention the step where you put in the authenticator code. No authenticator? Works fine. Authenticator? Fails on all but one account (presumably the first to say hi to the auth server).

See edit. Yes, I use an authenticator. Yes, mine are all on the same b.net account. And yes, the last time I logged into all 5, they logged in all 5 at once, including the auth phase. Of course, that's been about 2 months ago. But unless something has changed in the last two months, this still works. You just have to hit enter on all 5 at once. /shrug

I'd go login to verify but my multibox PCs are still up in Dallas.

[Drommon]

Secure as a box of bricks, and runs my software just as well as a...box of bricks.

lol to true!

[BobGnarly]

then create a virtual machine and do your web browsing in there.

Wanted to second this - this is what I do. I have a VM that is nothing but a browse box. Anything that isn't something I care about (like paying bills, accessing financial information, etc), goes in that VM. The great thing about it is, when I'm done with it I just reset the VM, and everything that happened in that session is lost. Meaning, if I did pick up a trojan it would be a) contained to the VM, and b) deleted when I destroy the VM without saving.

This does mean I have to relog to known sites (no cookies), but I find that a fair price to pay for knowing that there is no way my sensitive information is being logged. Plus, it's much less fuss than having to go to another computer every time you want to browse porn^H^H^H^Hyoutube.