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Addons... Didnt OP say something about that too. Oh boy.
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Free bump, keep this warning alive tough, i got the same message about C++ visual repair thingy etc when i installed it.
Not WoW addons, although that's possible too I suppose. Addons for other games could be as much of a culprit.
Free bump!
Too much freaking net-porn, taken advices by trolls, addons and such. Somehow I also sense some wow-addiction... Strange mix.
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I also had that same repair the Microsoft Visual C++ pop up in WoT Download and also out of the blue I get a security warning from Blizzard with a verification link to be clicked or if it wasnt from me go to support email.I havnt played my warcraft account since a couple of months after wrotlk expac. so yea seems kind of fishy.
I play several f2p games never had any problems, this is the only one with that repair Microsoft Visual C++ thing though.
Well obviously they spent a year or more developing this game, getting funding an loans, pulling a team together, finding a publisher, and putting this game out for the sole purpose of stealing your WoW account.
BTW the mind control drugs are in the tap water.
it would help if you would bother to read all te posts before posting.
This just makes u look somewhat stupid.
Isn't it weird so many ppl after that message have a e-mail from blizz that there acc is back on or banned etc..
Maybe it wasen't intended but these are facts.
Thank god there still is authenticator tough!
I dont even know what Visual C++ and these guys seems to know it better. Some people are just stupid. One thing what really blows me away people come to internet on public forum and ask if they SHOULD go to doctor for example. "Hey, I got this high fever, should I go to doctor?" Troll says "Nah its ok man"
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after i installed martial online and launched it my warhammer online account was hacked havin its passwords etc all information changed :P the hell with free to play
I heard the op say that he wasnt sure it was just fishy and i agree it is fishy i had the same repair Microsoft Visuals C++ from the wot downloader and all of a sudden i start getting security warning emails with a click this for verification on my wow account also which like the op said could be and probably coincidence.
On another note I just redownloaded Age of Conan for the welcome back try RotGS for 10 days offer and no where during the install did I have a seperate pop up requiring me to "repair" anything on my pc and AoC is a graphics monster so yes it is kind of fishy to me.
On another note I just redownloaded Age of Conan for the welcome back try RotGS for 10 days offer and no where during the install did I have a seperate pop up requiring me to "repair" anything on my pc and AoC is a graphics monster so yes it is kind of fishy to me.
Exactly. I'm not pointing fingers at a specific game per se, just trying to make everyone aware of my actions in the last few months, most of them pertaining to trying out FTPs and the possible correlation between the 2.
Two unrelated events. Cataclysm is ramping up so the gold sellers have increased their efforts to steal accounts. Hundreds of thousands of people are getting several 'Cataclysm Beta Invitation' and 'Account Verification' emails the past few weeks.
Also, if he supposedly wasn't sure then he probably shouldn't have titled the post
Be wary of a WoW phisher in World of Tanks Beta download...
There isn't a "right" or "wrong" way to play, if you want to use a screwdriver to put nails into wood, have at it, simply don't complain when the guy next to you with the hammer is doing it much better and easier. - Allein
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OK...there are a few things to address in this thread. First, SnarlingWolf was saying that if you were not subbed to WoW and the first time you used your login information was when you found out that it was subbed already, there is no way they could have gotten your information because you never used it between the time you installed the game and when you logged into Battle.net. Unless of course you used the same information for both games.
Phishing is typically done via e-mail or messages, and usually involves the user volunteering his or her information to a fake employee or entering it on a dummy site. I believe what you are referring to regarding malware is a keylogger.
WoW mods are coded in Lua. They cannot contain viruses or keyloggers unless they come with some sort of executable that you or the mod runs. If you install the mods by hand, you should know what is in the file and will be safe. There are instances of mod updaters such as the Curse client possibly being infected, particularly if you do not download it from a reliable source.
It's a Visual C++ redistributable package.
For example, http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=9b2da534-3e03-4391-8a4d-074b9f2bc1bf&displaylang=en
Brief Description
The Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable Package (x86) installs runtime components of Visual C++ Libraries required to run applications developed with Visual C++ on a computer that does not have Visual C++ 2008 installed.
Come on, don't be such a noobs! It's not a rocket science. It's like you're leaving in a dark ages when peasants said: "oh, it's a lightning! It must be a God's wraith!"
I don't care. When something bad happens, I'm going to warn others whether I understand what the "cause" is or not. I just know what the effect is and that I wouldn't want that for anyone.
Im with you, dude.
Speaking of warnings, REMEMBER TO USE CONDOM!
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I yhope you changed all the info / pass etc... except the credit card info..
Let them pay for your sub lol, untill they get their card closed.
I changed everything, but Blizzard themselves canceled the credit card and I think they forward that info to their legal department. Hopefully. I was hoping to make the culprit pay for awhile, lol, but probably safer this way.
thank u guys alot, i confirm this,i adore world of tanks but i just found trojan downloader in my pc when scaning with malwarebytes anti malware in c doc and sett applicaton datamicrosofta1.7z is his name i hope this helps anyone,thanks again for security warning...
well thats odd.. since my download didnt have any trojans.. downloaded mine from official site so.. nor did it install any c++ stuff during install or after it
Whenever an installer of Microsoft Visual C++ is run on a machine that has it already installed it basically runs the uninstaller with the repair/remove function. There is nothing wrong with that, as it is intented.
I get WoW Account compromised mails all the day, they are just spam, fishing mails that try to get your real account info. Don't ever click on them...
There is nothing wrong or malicious with the WoT installer or the game itself.
Because it would indeed be so damn hard for a third party to alter the installer!!!
"Originally posted by ThorHal Whenever an installer of Microsoft Visual C++ is run on a machine that has it already installed it basically runs the uninstaller with the repair/remove function. There is nothing wrong with that, as it is intented. I get WoW Account compromised mails all the day, they are just spam, fishing mails that try to get your real account info. Don't ever click on them... There is nothing wrong or malicious with the WoT installer or the game itself. "
Actually if you download it from the main website the changes are slim(There website might have been hacked or something), but downloading from a third party increases the risk especially from an not trusted P2P source.
Well I hope that's not the site you went to. If it is, that would be your problem. You just handed your login info to the wrong site, and if that's the case then you did it to yourself and it wasn't anything you installed. The actual Blizzard site is just "battle.net".
You know how many scam emails i get a day it must be hundreds claing to be from blizzard, and here you go logging into a wrong website. jesus This is how you get ur account compromised and nothing else. No wounder the noobs ehre kepe complainign about accoutn compromises. Clicking on next level sites. Some of these actual scam emails are very very very clever, but if you have even 1 ounce of common sense or a brain you would know what is real and what is fake.
It could OP too. Like they're clever. IMPORTANT I dont say OP is the mother fucker moron here but its POSSIBLE. like he said himself. He just know too much to do something stupid as this. Hes spotlight poster, so probably some respected guy around here. Man, I probably get banned. But these fucking guys do it. They are just like OP.
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