Keylogger problem.

sanon · 03-02-2008, 03:29 PM

I was dumb enough to fall for a keylogger recently. I was on the World of Warcraft forums, and someone posted a link, I followed it and thought it was a signup for the upcoming expansions beta. It was a key logger. I gave it my account name and password, as well as cd-key, adress, and answer to secret password recovery question. I was freaked out when I heard what it was and fragmented my computer (which I needed to do anyway due to some problems I couldn't find a fix for, which are now fixed).

Only problem is, I'm afraid to login to my account, thinking that they can get me again. What do I do?

**koala** · 03-02-2008, 05:16 PM

If you mean 'formatted' instead of 'fragmented' then the keylogger will be gone.

You will need to contact the WoW support team as soon as possible to tell them what has happened so they can cancel your hijacked account and set you up with a new one.

Scan all downloaded files before running.

sanon · 03-02-2008, 08:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by koala

If you mean 'formatted' instead of 'fragmented' then the keylogger will be gone.

You will need to contact the WoW support team as soon as possible to tell them what has happened so they can cancel your hijacked account and set you up with a new one.

Scan all downloaded files before running.

Yea, Formatted, I'll be sure to call them up tommarow, wouldn't want my account canceled, been playing since beta and have both the col' ed's.

I was going to just scan my filed instead of formating, but the before mentioned problem that I had that formatting fixed, was that my computer couldn't stay idle for more than 20 min, and it takes a few hours to scan everything on my computer.

Not anymore.

Thanks for the reply.

sanon · 03-02-2008, 08:18 PM

EDIT
Whoops, double post.

03-02-2008, 03:29 PM	#1 (permalink)
sanon Registered User Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 81 OS: XP	Keylogger problem. I was dumb enough to fall for a keylogger recently. I was on the World of Warcraft forums, and someone posted a link, I followed it and thought it was a signup for the upcoming expansions beta. It was a key logger. I gave it my account name and password, as well as cd-key, adress, and answer to secret password recovery question. I was freaked out when I heard what it was and fragmented my computer (which I needed to do anyway due to some problems I couldn't find a fix for, which are now fixed). Only problem is, I'm afraid to login to my account, thinking that they can get me again. What do I do?

03-02-2008, 05:16 PM	#2 (permalink)
koala Moderator Hardware Team Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: UK Posts: 12,394 OS: XP/7/Ubuntu My System	Re: Keylogger problem. If you mean 'formatted' instead of 'fragmented' then the keylogger will be gone. You will need to contact the WoW support team as soon as possible to tell them what has happened so they can cancel your hijacked account and set you up with a new one. Scan all downloaded files before running. __________________ New members: Subscribe to your thread (Thread Tools) to receive an instant email notification when you get a reply. TSF Folding@Home Team 85015 - details here

03-02-2008, 08:18 PM	#4 (permalink)
sanon Registered User Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 81 OS: XP	Re: Keylogger problem. EDIT Whoops, double post. Last edited by sanon; 03-02-2008 at 08:21 PM.