so my account got hacked

changed my pass, vendered my gear, took my gold.

blizzard recommended i delete all "3rd party addons" for fear of trojans, is there any validity to this?

any experience with how long restores take?

changed my pass, vendered my gear, took my gold.

blizzard recommended i delete all "3rd party addons" for fear of trojans, is there any validity to this?

any experience with how long restores take?

Anything is possible.

Can't blizz trace the account the gold was mailed to?

Anything is possible.

Can't blizz trace the account the gold was mailed to?

probably. the GM sent it to their "account investigation specialists" (that's what the email said). so i'm guessing since it's a weekend, it's gonna be awhile.

i don't care about the gold so much, just want my armor back.

I've always heard they're very prompt.

http://www.tribalwar.com/forums/showthread.php?t=498576

edit: whoops 2x post

http://www.tribalwar.com/forums/showthread.php?t=498576

ah, gotcha.

i run adware/virus scans weekly, really confused how my info was stolen.

lol

keylogger most likely

probably from a UI or addon u may've downloaded

restores can take up to a week

When you find out who it is you should totaly wisper him and call him a twat.

OMG, Reggs do you play wow?

Off an on

I've never been a very serious player.

they restored it today, they're fast.

I had this happen to me.

You probably have a keylogger. I got mine through a rogue banner ad on curse gaming. It's possible it's an addon, but unless you have some crazy sketchy addons, it's probably not the problem.

One thing you should do that's a big life saver: Check 'Remember my account name' ... when the keylogger steals your password ... if your account name is already typed in .. it can't log that. So there's no use having a password without an account name.

Restore took a few days for me, but it didn't fucking matter. They only restored my main, all my alts were still fucked, even the lowbies stripped down to nude. Everything was still fucked. Hard to reassemble all your gear and shit, but better than losing everything.

I had this happen to me.

You probably have a keylogger. I got mine through a rogue banner ad on curse gaming. It's possible it's an addon, but unless you have some crazy sketchy addons, it's probably not the problem.

One thing you should do that's a big life saver: Check 'Remember my account name' ... when the keylogger steals your password ... if your account name is already typed in .. it can't log that. So there's no use having a password without an account name.

Restore took a few days for me, but it didn't fucking matter. They only restored my main, all my alts were still fucked, even the lowbies stripped down to nude. Everything was still fucked. Hard to reassemble all your gear and shit, but better than losing everything.

as a precaution i deleted all my addons after i changed my pass, and rebuilt a new UI from scratch using just wowace stuff.

yeah, my first main (still at 60) on a different server got stripped and they didn't restore him =/ not that i play him, but still blows. all my alts are fucked as well. i was lucky though, the GM restored every last thing on my main, so i guess it could have been a lot worse.

how would a banner add launch a keylogger? i'm sure crazier things have happened, but i guess i'll stay away from curse-gaming now.

If you haven't updated windows (for various reasons) since around January, you're open to keylogging through banner ads.

If you haven't updated windows (for various reasons) since around January, you're open to keylogging through banner ads.

na, mine is up to date, and i use firefox, which i'm assuming in this case is more secure than ie