It's Ragnaros, the last boss in the vanilla WoW 40 man raid dungeon Molten Core, and yes that ultimate ban hammer is available to players.Charcharo said:
Symantec Uncovers 44 Million Stolen Game Accounts
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I don't know of any browser that can block 100% of pop-ups, but I've never used Opera. Maybe it's just freaking brilliant and I had no idea.Belladonnah said:This or use opera/firefox. No popups, ever. Fixed.danpascooch said:
But this is an epic find by Symantec. I'm still not clear on exactly how they stumbled upon this from code someone else submitted, but, props to them.
Is it one of those things where, when you see it up close ('it' being the one you can use) the first thing that springs to mind is "It's only a model"?KeyMaster45 said:
Wow. Now thats a virus. Did it ever say how symantec came across this database and how they managed to figure out what was in it? That would be quite interesting. Those figures ae quite impressive as well. Though I do not understand the drastic figure differences between different MMOs perhaps different areas have a preference to different games.
There's a great deal of money to made selling virtual currency, people view gold sellers and farmers as poor suckers slaving away in a sweat shop in some Asian country which I'm sure happens, but stealing is a lot less time consuming with a higher profit margin, and a lot of these groups have ties with various criminal organisations.Tharticus said:
The days of hackers being geeks in the basement doing it just to see if they can are long gone for the most part, now it's about cold hard (virtual) cash.
Linky about the guy itself: http://www.wowwiki.com/RagnarosLord_Panzer said:
Linky about the hammer: http://www.wowwiki.com/Sulfuras,_Hand_of_Ragnaros
Raggy, as he's generally known to wow players is the final boss of the first 40 man raid(co op) dungeon. Lorewise he's an Elemental Lieutenant, leader of all fire elementals and a servant of the Old Gods. By today's standards, his 1000k hp and 500 or so dps are pathetically low(about 1% of the power of the current top dog) but he's scheduled for making a repeat appearance in the new expansion...
And yes, he looks badass. Meeting him for the first time in the game without having seen him before is one of the coolest moments in gaming.
Opera blocks 100% of them. Firefox doesn't by default, but with 2 addons it does.Brainst0rm said:I don't know of any browser that can block 100% of pop-ups, but I've never used Opera. Maybe it's just freaking brilliant and I had no idea.Belladonnah said:This or use opera/firefox. No popups, ever. Fixed.danpascooch said:
But this is an epic find by Symantec. I'm still not clear on exactly how they stumbled upon this from code someone else submitted, but, props to them.
Now that is a lot of people hard earn time and effort gettin hacked there! See this is why I copy and paste my password so that there is no way it can be read, the only thing they will get out of me is 'Ctrl V' Mwahaha!
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That's sort of scary.
Just as well my WoW account's been inactive for a long time. But could these have some connection to the mysterious emails from people pretending to be Blizzard (that Chrome rather handily told me about them being phishers)?
Just as well my WoW account's been inactive for a long time. But could these have some connection to the mysterious emails from people pretending to be Blizzard (that Chrome rather handily told me about them being phishers)?
This server can only be destroyed by the mythical (ban) hammer of Thor himself! Or you know, deleting the information and destroying the program.
It's cool that they shut this down but its weird that these apparently professional hackers got caught by the Norton guys.
It's cool that they shut this down but its weird that these apparently professional hackers got caught by the Norton guys.
ABP (AdBlock Plus) and Ad Blocker take care of every popup and allow you to block ads or specific frames (in cases of websites which have a side frame with different publicity every time, you can block the frame all together)FBPH said:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865/
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6826/
(Ad Blocker also blocks publicity in youtube videos)
Its also recommended to have Noscript, it blocks all scripting on every site, and you can just add sites to the white list with a click, but is more bothersome because every time you open a site for the first time you need to add it partially/totally to the while list to see flash/javascript/forms.
Except for worms and such that read your clipboard. Copy/pasting passwords is an extra, worthwhile step but it isn't a complete win over anybody peeking in your system.midnightalone said:
Dude just a heads up you might want to get rid of this post. The mod do not like it when people try and block the adds on this site because it means that they don't get any money. They have been know to ban people who tell others how to do so.Belladonnah said:
You got it! They aren't hacking anything, they are just fact checking (although I'm sure they were hacked at some point, so it's still bad and illegal)piscian said:
It's not really about server resources though, it's about not hitting that "too many failed logins from this IP, wait a while and try again" message that would make doing it all from one server take an eternity.
