Wintress 0 Report post Posted December 20, 2008 So, being the sleepy net surfer that i am i think i may have opened one of those dreaded keylogger links on the WoW forums... I had a few questions for the more technical guys that could maybe help me out... 1) I'm on a mac laptop, will the keylogging programs they use affect me or am i safe because they are designed for PC's? 2) If i'm not safe, anyone know of a good way to get rid of it? I won't be logging on until i get a few solid responses from so tech people just to be safe so please hurry cuz i would really like to LvL Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erlin 0 Report post Posted December 20, 2008 noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Feanore 0 Report post Posted December 20, 2008 (edited) Preamble: I've never had a keylogger, so take the following statement with a grain of salt... From what I understand, keyloggers take advantage of the browswer, so OS isn't really an insulator. If think there's the remotest chance you got hit by one, the very 1st thing you wanna do is clear your browser cache, reboot (just to be safe?), and if you have access to a different machine, use that to go to www.worldofwarcraft.com > Account Settings > Change Password. Change that thing ASAP. From what I've read, most keyloggers work through your web browser, so if you open/login to WoW before you open your browser, you should be good to go, but honestly?...I'm not sure about that one. TLDR version from the WoW forums: http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.h...opicId=18001914 Best of luck, Fifi EDIT: Looks like I was wrong, it does actually install something, so if it happened, your boned... Also, if you use firefox look for the addon called 'Noscript'; Blocks javascript on all pages unless you explicitly allow them from a specific site. Edited December 20, 2008 by Feanore Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wintress 0 Report post Posted December 20, 2008 It does actually have to install something, but i read from someone on the mac forums that for that to actually happen it will ask me for my username and password before it installs anything onto a mac and it didn't ask so they said i'm safe. Don't worry benny your fine Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erlin 0 Report post Posted December 20, 2008 imagine the user access controls on vista x10, thats how macs are. in order for it to install anything macs will ask you first if you want to install it. at least i think Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wintress 0 Report post Posted December 21, 2008 Yup exactly, and all this link did was send me to some dumb page about the T7 set bonuses... Erlin is safe! GO MACS!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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