[Phanex]

Well there is a bit of difference between the players who used a 3rd party tool vs. someone who just went to a common website and DL the virus/worm/w/ever to their pc.

We all know that somepage was one of the few websites believed to be behind some of the earlier attacks, and we all know, if I remember correctly, that Somepage was hacked, and SE got in touch with them telling them what happened. I read all this on here, and I’m too busy to go back and look it all up.

So blaming the players cause they went to somepage, like they always did, is kinda foolish. If it were something an anti-spy/virus program could detect, then it wouldn’t have gone on as long as it did. In fact, SE customer service simply says there is NO way to remove/detect it as of yet, short of formatting your hard drive. And since it is a keylogger, and since not everyone can format their pc’s due to lack of cd’s or w/ever the case may be, this new security measure will help those folks out.

And didn’t the Flash player also have a security risk that SE told ppl to go update it as soon as possible? The hackers are using all the weakness of the Window’s system and other programs it uses to gain access to the player’s information. At least from what I can gather.

Will this solve future problems, I don’t know, but it might. I find it sad that some people go around saying, it’s the user’s fault cause they didn’t do this, the user should do that, yet them same people wont’ tell anyone where to go, what to do, which page to view, etc. Be part of the solution, not part of the problem.

And I don’t see McAfee or Windows spending their research money trying to solve this little keylogger program, at least until whoever made it starts using it to steal credit card info or making a bigger presence outside of the FFXI community.

And yes, there are the few ppl out there do “leave their car unlocked”, but don’t criticizes everyone else that’s in the same boat as they are.