General Discussion

Yeah..I was brushing my teeth and my brother shouts to me "Why the hell did you make this random level one named Warriorhema guild leader?" So I go in his room looked at the log and it said I invited this guy and made him leader less then an hour ago..when I was out taking my dog for a walk.

So I kinda freaked out and got on WoW, to make sure I actually COULD and I kept getting disconnected..so I knew me and some other guy were trying to get control of my character. I then continued to freak out and went into a made dash to change my account info..but alas. It was too late. He changed the password. My email confirmed it. And my "secret question" was probably 5 years old so I totally forgot it.

"Warriorhema" then decided to disband my guild, delete all my gear, on literally all my toons. Even alts.  (I was checking armory as this happened).

I FEEL VIOLATED! Hahaha, I've played WoW for a long time..and I just figured that only the people who bought gold and powerlevelled got hacked. After googling and shit I finally drew a conclusion. I had a keylogger.

Had or has? I honestly have no idea.. and if I still have it I want to get rid of it!

How do I get rid of a keylogged?! Thanks.

I'd say just do a full system scan with whatever anti-vrius software you have and then email the WoW support team and tell them what happened. Im sure theyll get your account back within a few days.

this is why i dont use 3rd party Programs or UI Mods.

Let us know how it all comes out. Could help some of us aviod haveing the same thing happen. Hackers are bottom of the barrel scum.

His no drop gear might be gone for good.   I feel for ya Nierro.  It hasn't happened to me yet (knock on wood). I hope you can get things sorted to your liking.

Maybe a suggestion or maybe not. I will toss it out none the less.  I use alot of different free programs to help watch prevent this type of thing.   The best free and user friendly software by far has to be comodo firewall and its defense+.  It watches your processes and connections and always asks whenever something happens with either.  It asks whether to allow or not and I never tick the always allow box.  

If you don't have a half decent virus scanner NOD 32 has a free online scanner www.eset.com/onlinescan/ (you need to use internet explorer for scanning purposes) .

I would also run SuperAntiSpyware  www.download.com/SUPERAntiSpyware-Free-Edition/3000-8022_4-10523889.html , it is a very good free on demand scanner.

Once the scanning is complete you should change your password,

Best of Luck !

Hello Nierro,

Your best bet is first to do a full system scan, if you don't have any software for this i must insist that you buy one such as Norton. Also, open a GM ticket and if you can tell them around the time this incident happened, they should be able to track your character changes and restore them with their gear.

Just incase you have, don't ever give out your account details!

Hope this helps, Jessixa

oops.

snicker, i really dont feel too bad if wow is the only damage done.

do you pay your bills online?

you best check your other shit, if keylogger is the culprit.

if wow is the only damage done, it must be that cheat you downloaded.

cheater. hacker yourself.

karma.

good luck.

I'm sorry to tell you this, but about 99% (pulled that out of my ass, but it's a qualified guess) of all keyloggers is discovered by a proper updated anti virus software, not to mention that, unless it's binded into another program, it also need access through your firewall unless it also works as a trojan. Sucks to have hours and hours of work destroyed by something which could have been prevented in 5-10 minutes.

If you don't have firewall/AV software, I can recommand Avast and PC Tools Firewall. Both are free. If you don't have very specific demands towards your software, there is absolutely no need to not use the free ones. Their detection rate is as good if not better on most areas compared to the most popular commercial ones. (Talking about compared AVG and Avast to Mcaffe, Norton and so on)

Another thing I can definately recommend to avoid shit like this in the future : Always know what processes are running and which should be running - Will give often give away spyware, trojans, keyloggers, som viruses, and other malware. I usually keep process explorer open for the resource statistics, but it will also reveal to me if anything that shouldn't be running is running. So make sure you know what each running process is. If you see something you haven't seen before, it might be a good idea to google it.