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Phishing attempt using wowhead e-mail addresses
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NeoBlackheart
umm if you have something on your computer then I don't know why the hackers just don't hack World of Warcraft.
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Quesac
I think some of the advertising that Wowhead uses might be the culprit. On several occasions, AVG has shut down Wowhead saying it posed a threat. Now with Wowhead itself, I doubt they have anything in their website coding that would be a threat, however, the people who create the popup advertising, I'm not so sure of.
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NeoBlackheart
umm if you have something on your computer then I don't know why the hackers just don't hack World of Warcraft.
Successfully compromising WoW lets you log in to WoW as your victim as many times as she enters a new authenticator code without realizing something is wrong.
Successfully compromising a browser, on the other hand, is worlds easier to do in the first place and gets you wow account information, bank account information, paypal account, ebay account, logins for any online stores she happen to use (many of which save credit card information)... Basically you can utterly ruin someone's life if you're just patient enough to wait while she logs into things. If the victim uses a password-saving tool, you don't even need to wait!
Why would I settle for stripping your characters and selling all your WoW gold when I could also take out huge cash advances on all your credit cards, drain your savings, and sign you up for home equity loans in countries you've never visited?
I was talking about with all the security messures he has on his PC not in general I understand them doing it. Just not that I think its possible with everything he has setup.
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