I've been hacked before a long time ago so i know it can be hard on you emotionally. Isn't this the 3rd guy in like 4 months that got hacked in our guild? The biggest threat are the phishing emails that come from the gold sellers that you bought your gold from. They say they are from blizzard but they aren't don't even be curious and peek. After i got hacked I got a one of those Authenticator cipher code things. But it was a friggin hassle logging in. So i ended up disabling it. I haven't been hacked since so I don't feel bad about doing so.
Additional Tips
1. Once you have been compromised do a fresh OS install
2. Try to keep only WoW on the box you game with. I'm not saying you have to. I don't. I just don't visit dangerous sites on my WoW box. In Afghanistan all workstations had 3 physically separate computers on 3 physically separate networks.
3. Use a gimp computer to do slim shady stuff.
4. Have multiple emails. One for work and clean business, one for friends and family, and one appeasing online registration needs. If "Blizzard" emails come in from your alternate email you can absolutely sure its not legit.
5. We can all type in our passwords without thinking. Type your password in a way that most key loggers don't track. I don't know how reliable this is but i was told that most key-loggers dont track the left and right keys. So as a solution consider typing ssword then use your left key to go back to the beginning and type Pa creating Password.
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