I opened my email to print off something I needed to fax in for school when I saw this email.
This is a notice that the email address on your World of Warcraft account Valrauko has been changed. If you did not request this change please fill out our Account Security/Compromise webform at http://us.blizzard.com/support/webform.xml.
If this change was intended please disregard this notice.
Thank you.
I was shocked as I hadn't changed my WoW account info. So I quickly filled out the form and changed my email password on my wife's lab top as I knew it was my desktop that was probably infected.
Well needless to say I now have to go fill out a giant forum and fax in a photo copy of my I.D. in order to try and retrieve my account. But I guess the one cool thing (if u call a game you have been playing for 2 years cool stolen) is that I found out that the estemated market vaule of my account is around $900.00!!!
Another interesting thing is I was surfing this morning and found this post on msn.com
Serious security flaw found in IE
A vulnerability has been discovered and the 27% of users of this site using Internet Explorer should probably install this hotfix as soon as possible.
From BBC.co.uk
The flaw in Microsoft's Internet Explorer could allow criminals to take control of people's computers and steal their passwords, internet experts say.
Microsoft urged people to be vigilant while it investigated and prepared an emergency patch to resolve it. Internet Explorer is used by the vast majority of the world's computer users.
"Microsoft is continuing its investigation of public reports of attacks against a new vulnerability in Internet Explorer," said the firm in a security advisory alert about the flaw.
Microsoft says it has detected attacks against IE 7.0 but said the "underlying vulnerability" was present in all versions of the browser. Other browsers, such as Firefox, Opera, Chrome, Safari, are not vulnerable to the flaw Microsoft has identified.
Browser bait
"In this case, hackers found the hole before Microsoft did," said Rick Ferguson, senior security advisor at Trend Micro. "This is never a good thing."
As many as 10,000 websites have been compromised since the vulnerability was discovered, he said.
"What we've seen from the exploit so far is it stealing game passwords, but it's inevitable that it will be adapted by criminals," he said. "It's just a question of modifying the payload the trojan installs."
"The message needs to get out that this malicious code can be planted on any web site, so simple careful browsing isn't enough."
Well needless to say I now have to go fill out a giant forum and fax in a photo copy of my I.D. in order to try and retrieve my account. But I guess the one cool thing (if u call a game you have been playing for 2 years cool stolen) is that I found out that the estemated market vaule of my account is around $900.00!!!
Another interesting thing is I was surfing this morning and found this post on msn.com
Serious security flaw found in IE
A vulnerability has been discovered and the 27% of users of this site using Internet Explorer should probably install this hotfix as soon as possible.
From BBC.co.uk
The flaw in Microsoft's Internet Explorer could allow criminals to take control of people's computers and steal their passwords, internet experts say.
Microsoft urged people to be vigilant while it investigated and prepared an emergency patch to resolve it. Internet Explorer is used by the vast majority of the world's computer users.
"Microsoft is continuing its investigation of public reports of attacks against a new vulnerability in Internet Explorer," said the firm in a security advisory alert about the flaw.
Microsoft says it has detected attacks against IE 7.0 but said the "underlying vulnerability" was present in all versions of the browser. Other browsers, such as Firefox, Opera, Chrome, Safari, are not vulnerable to the flaw Microsoft has identified.
Browser bait
"In this case, hackers found the hole before Microsoft did," said Rick Ferguson, senior security advisor at Trend Micro. "This is never a good thing."
As many as 10,000 websites have been compromised since the vulnerability was discovered, he said.
"What we've seen from the exploit so far is it stealing game passwords, but it's inevitable that it will be adapted by criminals," he said. "It's just a question of modifying the payload the trojan installs."
"The message needs to get out that this malicious code can be planted on any web site, so simple careful browsing isn't enough."
So even though I already use firefox I ran all of my more extreme software protection and sure enough I found 3 files of a trojan and one JHack on my computer. I was able to remove them but this time I went ahead and bought a device called a Blizzard Authenticator. It is a USB device that will use a random generated code each time I log in to act as a second password. It is the highest form of security that blizzard can offer an account. (And it was only 6.50 with shiping and handaling)
Basicaly this post is to warn that if you are using IE please get firefox!!!
Basicaly this post is to warn that if you are using IE please get firefox!!!
