sairane
Fri, 09-22-2006, 11:51 AM
Not sure this is the right section, but i know a few people on these boards play World of Warcraft so i thought i would put out the warning here.
ui.worldofwar.net has recently admitted that their servers have been hacked, resulting in a huge number of people being infected by keyloggers. Some of this comes from adds on thier site, others from mods. Most popular 3 being svch0st.exe , g0ld.exe and scvhost.exe
Even if you havnt been to the site, the 'hackers' have been using people's accounts to post on the main WoW boards giving links to random stuff.... eg.
Liek zomg i pwned this mage, check it out! then a random url like www.pwned.jpg.html (note. not a real link, just an example)
Which will then seem to be a broken link... or something random... and will attempt to install a trojan on your pc.
The sheer amount of people who have had thier accounts stolen is huge. Be vigalant people, run an uber spywear/virus scan and if you think you have been infected change your passwords for all sensitive stuff on a CLEAN machine, not the one that is infected!
As i said may be the wrong section, i know most people here dont play warcraft either so most wont care... so flame on.
If this prevents just one person from having their account stolen its worth it.
ui.worldofwar.net has recently admitted that their servers have been hacked, resulting in a huge number of people being infected by keyloggers. Some of this comes from adds on thier site, others from mods. Most popular 3 being svch0st.exe , g0ld.exe and scvhost.exe
Even if you havnt been to the site, the 'hackers' have been using people's accounts to post on the main WoW boards giving links to random stuff.... eg.
Liek zomg i pwned this mage, check it out! then a random url like www.pwned.jpg.html (note. not a real link, just an example)
Which will then seem to be a broken link... or something random... and will attempt to install a trojan on your pc.
The sheer amount of people who have had thier accounts stolen is huge. Be vigalant people, run an uber spywear/virus scan and if you think you have been infected change your passwords for all sensitive stuff on a CLEAN machine, not the one that is infected!
As i said may be the wrong section, i know most people here dont play warcraft either so most wont care... so flame on.
If this prevents just one person from having their account stolen its worth it.