So I'm convinced Blizzard has security issues

[razor]

I had this happen as well. They illigally used a credit card to reopen my accounts, and got one of them banned. Make sure you get blizzard to cancel the Credit Card otherwise they may but a negitive balance on your account.

I also had not touched the account for months. I believe my account details had been sitting in cyberspace for close to one year before being activated.

Best thing to do when putting wow on hold. Get into a secure environment, ie Work PC's etc, and Change your password.

[Malgor]

Two years ago this happened to me.

I know how it happened, I opened an email that was not from blizzard and they put a trojan on my computer. I had to wipe it completely to get rid of the virus. It was a key logger trojan that not only took my wow information, but all my banking information too, which they waited on for about three months then started going to town on that. It was quite a mess for awhile.

They hacked my four wow accounts, took all the gold off of 28 toons, sold all their gear and left them all naked. I was at least thankful they didn't delete any of the characters.

Blizzard was amazing, but slow. They were very helpful and sympathetic and their research took about one month of total time, but I got ALL my gear back and ALL the gold I had at the time, which wasn't much. It was helpful that I knew the exact hour the hackers struck, because I logged off. Tried to log in an hour later and all my passwords had been changed.

Since then I have an authenticator and only access WoW on my playing computer. I changed all my wow accounts over to a wow-only email account (and b-net).

I didn't want to lose my orignal email account because I've had it for over 20 years, so since the time of the hack, I get tells every day to my main toons from chinese farmers trying to sell gold and at least 15-20 emails a day from "blizzard". I just report them all as spam and never open them.

One thing Blizzard needs to do is what EQ2 has done. Allow you to turn off tells/whispers and all chat from anyone of certain level groups. In EQ2 I turned off everyone under level 20, so that I never got the spam in cities from gold sellers and the numerous level 1 toons they made over and over couldn't /whisper me any of their spam either.

[Souca]

Since this last patch I've been having crashes randomly with a DEP message. Data Execution Prevention... I've scanned and there's no virus or malware so I've been at a loss. Only thing new since this started was the patch and updating some addons off Curse. Never use their client- always manually install.

This is caused by a bug in the patch. Not to say you shouldn't be vigilante about virii, but in this case it is a memory leak that is overwriting some code and causing a jump to memory that is not supposed to be executed. There are about 3-4 major bugs in the latest patch, and this is just one of them.

- Souca -

[alcattle]

Blizzard =/= Security I could not log on after last patch, tried all the "fixes" posted here and on Blue posts. Finally read someone saying it was their firewall software. Turned off my 3rd party firewall and on I went to play. I also have WoW loaded on a laptop. Can't play on it as the GPU sux but it will log on. Started Wow ON that, after the patch got the same cannot connect message. Turned off the firewall (same product on both) and off it went. On the Main system I did try to open the "Blizzard" ports with no luck. So until things are fixed I play WoW with no firewall. Blizzard =/= Security

[kate]

Blizzard =/= Security I could not log on after last patch, tried all the "fixes" posted here and on Blue posts. Finally read someone saying it was their firewall software. Turned off my 3rd party firewall and on I went to play. I also have WoW loaded on a laptop. Can't play on it as the GPU sux but it will log on. Started Wow ON that, after the patch got the same cannot connect message. Turned off the firewall (same product on both) and off it went. On the Main system I did try to open the "Blizzard" ports with no luck. So until things are fixed I play WoW with no firewall. Blizzard =/= Security

Totally - Blizzard is 100% responsible for teaching you how to properly configure your firewall, thus they've got no security because you decided to turn it off completely in order to play games rather than take it as an opportunity to learn how to use your software properly. Players are _never_ responsible for the security of their systems. After all, the name of their company *is* "Blizzard Entertainment and Security Services of North America, Inc."

[Maxion]

totally - blizzard is 100% responsible for teaching you how to properly configure your firewall, thus they've got no security because you decided to turn it off completely in order to play games rather than take it as an opportunity to learn how to use your software properly. Players are _never_ responsible for the security of their systems. After all, the name of their company *is* "blizzard entertainment and security services of north america, inc."

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[alcattle]

Totally - Blizzard is 100% responsible for teaching you how to properly configure your firewall, thus they've got no security because you decided to turn it off completely in order to play games rather than take it as an opportunity to learn how to use your software properly. Players are _never_ responsible for the security of their systems. After all, the name of their company *is* "Blizzard Entertainment and Security Services of North America, Inc."

I followed their directions for opening the ports on the firewall. I saw that there was an issue and tried that "fix". It solved the problem, so did I do it wrong? Maybe, but others have the same problem? I never had to play with the firewall before this last patch. So I guess that would be my fault. Give me a fucking break

edit: After reading my post without that red rage in my eyes, I can see how people got confused, hell it doesn't even make sense to me. I meant every fix Blizzard posted was tried and failed.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Turned off my 3rd party firewall and on I went to play.

Turned off the firewall (same product on both) and off it went.

So until things are fixed I play WoW with no firewall.

I followed their directions for opening the ports on the firewall.

One of these is not like the others.

[Dooz]

One of these is not like the others.

"One of these is just not the same."

I had a Capt. Kangaroo flash back.... made me lol.

[alcattle]

I followed their directions for opening the ports on the firewall.

One of these is not like the others.

Taken out of context, I meant that I tried their fix for my firewall blocking WoW access. That fix did not allow me to connect.

Edit: Might be best if I just shut up and go to the corner for a time out.