Blizzard detected a virus, de-activated all my accounts.. how?

[Sam DeathWalker]

I don't run Norton

I don't have an auth.

I dont use firewalls. (without norton or a firewall running I get a lot more speed from my computer)

I have never had any problems. Even with win2000 and win7 which I run exclusivly now is even hard to crack if you keep it updated.

Shut off all remote services. Why they are on by default I have no idea. It is far from trivial to compromise a computer with all remote services turned off, espically a Win7 system.

If the hacker can get around this he not interested in yur lousy 1K gold lol ....

Never open email attachments, ever for any reason no matter who it is from.

Make sure links in emails go to where they say they do.

When you see "Do you trust content from so and so" and so and so you never heard of. Shut the power to your computer immdeatly. Do not close normally shut the power switch.

Back up your whole hard disk with a clone program every week or so.


You can see if your machine is compromised by looking at the auto start registry enteries, there is a microsoft tool that does it easy for you also. Or just get task manager open and check what processes are running.




I know everyone going to start talking about root kits and all that. Look if the hacker is all that competent he is attacking bank accounts or corperate or government systems not your piddly wow account.