Hacked, ,anyone else lately

[Mhurron]

Re: Hacked, ,anyone else lately

I wouldn't want to recover from having my sad and sorry gear and items being lost, much less what Sevv has. Geez.

Ya, I don't have much at all and I would quit instead of trying to recover.

[Tsrwedge]

Re: Hacked, ,anyone else lately

A good way to start your security in a meaningful way is to use a Real Operating System when you aren't playing the game.

[Shadowneko]

Re: Hacked, ,anyone else lately

I just play on consoles, never give out my FFXI password and never set any web passwords or windows passwords the same as my FFXI password.

Keyloggers aside if you want a more secure password...well use a mix of letters and numbers...in the past hackers got in to systems by using dictornary programs and it's one way to prevent this...

[Balfree]

Re: Hacked, ,anyone else lately

wouldnt it be neat if SE had an option for us to backup our stuff?

like you could backup your character and all its missions and items and exp and everything else for a small fee whenever you wanted, that'd be neat

sorry for your loss sev

[Nataka]

Re: Hacked, ,anyone else lately

wouldnt it be neat if SE had an option for us to backup our stuff?

like you could backup your character and all its missions and items and exp and everything else for a small fee whenever you wanted, that'd be neat

sorry for your loss sev

TBH I'm surprised this hasnt been implemented in MMOs in general. The only problem is if you back up your character, sell some items, and then restore it...But I suppose you could create a system to prevent this such as preventing you from selling items that you opt to keep "backed up" along with you not being able to do it often and/or requiring a good deal of procedure from GMs.

[Mhurron]

Re: Hacked, ,anyone else lately

TBH I'm surprised this hasnt been implemented in MMOs in general

Doesn't happen for the same reason they store information on the servers and not locally in the first place, you can't trust the end user.

[Sevv]

Re: Hacked, ,anyone else lately

It doesn't happen with S-E because they do not use logic ever.

[little ninja]

Re: Hacked, ,anyone else lately

To be honest if my char got hacked and abused like some have. There is no point to me coming back. I just can't see myself doing everything all over again.

As for password I use a mix of upper case and lower case letters with a number thrown into the mix.

[DakAttack]

Re: Hacked, ,anyone else lately

I use the same password I use for everything, and I've even shared my account with a friend. I'm a shining example of either really good luck or, for lack of a better phrase, a guy who's got his shit together.

Obligatory sorry Sevv!

[little ninja]

Re: Hacked, ,anyone else lately

I use the same password I use for everything, and I've even shared my account with a friend. I'm a shining example of either really good luck or, for lack of a better phrase, a guy who's got his shit together.

Obligatory sorry Sevv!

"Even a blind squirrel finds a nut" By the way hope you knocked on wood and did all those things now to unjinx yourself.

[Ziero]

Re: Hacked, ,anyone else lately

But the thing is, they use viruses to get your PW. So no matter how strong or weak the actual PW is, as long as you type it once they can get it. The only way to be 'safe' is to keep your spyware and virus detectors up to date and run them regularly.

And they can't allow users to back up their characters because it would be too easy to abuse. What they need to do is make it so that you need your Reg codes to change any of your information, whether it be just your PW or your Billing Info or whatever. Then add a system...which they seem to have done...that allows for complete character recovery.

[Mhurron]

Re: Hacked, ,anyone else lately

I like the pass code to drop things idea.

[Nataka]

Re: Hacked, ,anyone else lately

I like the pass code to drop things idea.

Problem is that you would also need to implement that passcode for mailing, trading, and bazaaring items. These three things are common enough that the keylogger would just pick up on those too.

[tebian]

Re: Hacked, ,anyone else lately

I am really sorry to hear about more hacks. I am not sure what I would do after 4 years of collecting things. In my experiencing running the web radio station broadcast with people making actual request to the server here at the house I have thank god never had any attacks. That is stopped with just good router settings but cant fix key logger kinda things like the hacks there using.

I play the game on all three platforms and refuse to use Explorer as my first line of defense on the PC for these websites we use. I think most people will agree that the hacks are written for that browsers weakness and you are better off with anything else. I use Firefox but there are others just as good. Its really sad to think that SE cant do something also, with all their updates to Ls Community that makes it almost impossible to use now and there 32 bit encryption that obviously does not work. Maybe POL should start a validation system for the sites the we all use so we can be secure who we are dealing with ?

[Zoltar]

Re: Hacked, ,anyone else lately

random question while we're on the subject...any PC users ever experience random times where you're not doing anything and your game goes through the menus and does stuff at will? like kick off macros, go in inventory, etc...