The EQ people need to come up with their own virusblock for this sort of
thing.
I think a guildmate of mine had his account hacked. He logged in one day and
everything was missing off his character. Including everything in his bank.
It was really sad.
luv,
-Su
> Actually there are a couple of viruses that were made specifically for
EverQ
> uest, and they were quite successful.. If you know how much money some
peopl
> e have made on just ebaying legit loot then you can figure out how much
they
> can make from spreading a simple EQ virus to gain access to hundreds of
acco
> unts(I've had one guildmate this year that had a virus like that, she
ended
> up being banned).. They get your account info, ebay all tradable loot then
t
> hey sell the account itself.. Unfortunately the buyer is screwed since the
r
> eal owner will report the theft most likely.. But the virus programmer
still
> makes a bundle.. :(
>
> -----Ursprungligt meddelande-----
> Från: Lance Whitmore [mailto:vesuvus@...]
> Skickat: den 15 juni 2001 16:15
> Till: EverQuest@yahoogroups.com
> Ämne: Re: SV: SV: [EverQuest] Verant's new security policy..
>
>
> Ok I had never thought about getting my account "hacked" into. I would
ha
> ve
> thought that as long as I didn't give out my information that I would be
> safe.
>
> That's cause you are safe.. The odds of anyone hacking your system.. or
a
> nyone else's system just to get your everquest account is next to nothing.
> Sure it happens every now and then due to the lack of players realizing
thei
> r personal responsibility to protect themselves on the Internet. If your
ha
> nding your account information out to other players/not running uptodate
ant
> i-virus programs/personal firewalls/etc. then they have no one to blame
but
> themselves. There's certainly more personal information about them that
wou
> ld be more important to "hackers" other then your Everquest account.
Those
> protection programs are easy to install and maintain - most are automatic
wi
> th the least amount of input from the end-user. If someone is "sniffing"
th
> e packets from your computer, you've got a much larger problem then
worrying
> if they have compromised your EQ account.
>
> D.
>
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