The big news this week is apparently account security. Several sites have been going off the hinges lately about account security and it seems that the gold sellers are getting desperate. Keyloggers, phishing emails, scams, mystery hacks, etc. are in full force around the Internet. Queues for character restoration have reached the “weeks&rdquo,cheap ugg boots; point. WoW.com reports that it has “inside sources” that say Blizzard may soon require authenticators!
I’m fired up this week and my soul is burning with excitement because there is finally something to talk about. The account security issues are apparently SO BAD that people are given the option of forgoing their restoration for a care packagenike shoes with 2,500 gold, 10 Emblems of Frost, and 10 Emblems of Triumph for each day they’ve waited. Woah! Wait a second, that’s kind of lame eh? I’d need over 200 Emblems of Triumph to fix my character’s gear to where it’s at now and almost 100 Emblems of Frost! I have over 30,000 gold too. I better not get hacked any time soon huh?
Well, knock on wood, I won’t. Because I’m web savvy enough to know basic Internet protocols. Let’s review them real quick dear readers of The Fabulous Overpull of Awesomesauce.
Antivirus software is a must, no matter if it ruins your FPS, uses popups or even schedules downloads for itself. You need some kind of security software running. You can pick these up at your local mega-mart or electronics store. There are free versions out there such as AVG, but you sometimes get what you pay for. Make sure it’s scheduled to scan often and that it can cover spyware too.
Windows Update is a good thing, so turn it on and make sure it’s updating. Information on this is in Windows’ help files OR in the Mac help files (and the options are in both of their control panels).
Never give your password to anyone, use a good strong password, and use different passwords for each and every website. Adding a “1” or “a” or anything to the end on a new site isn’t good enough, the bad people know those tricks.
Do not share accounts.
Do not use any third party services.
There are more, but really be smart and you’ll be fine. I’ve yet to know a single person who was smart about ‘net security that haswedding dresses ever been hacked. Some people have made arguments that it “happened out of nowhere”, but I imagine that fat stack of gold they mysteriously had “happened out of nowhere” too.
Lastly I want all of my readers to know something. This isn’t new. The care bags are, the rumors of people exploiting Blizzard customer service are kinda new, and the paranoia launched by a bunch of sites is new but this problem isn’t. Don’t fall into some kind of mass paranoia and buy into a ton of extra security software and pay certain electronic stores to “secure” your computer for several hundred bucks. Just be smart about it.
During the First War, like we spoke about before, the High Elves helped Queen Azshara summon The Burning Legion to Azeroth. They were then cast into the sea with her and became the Naga. Another group followed Xavius and became Satyrs. Then there were the main group of the survivors who were exiled from the Night Elven society and followed Dath’Remar Sunstrider across the sea to become the High Elves.
The remaining few were left as the true heirs of the name “Highborne”. There are many scattered about Azeroth, but there is one large group of them known as the Shen’dralar in Dire Maul. They contain a large library ofcheap wow gold long forgotten knowledge and are extremely powerful immortal beings. Of course immortality always comes at a price. The price they accept is the reason that Night Elf Mages are a bad idea.
Magic is naturally addictive. World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade was a lesson in that. All of the Blood Elves were pretty much magic addicts gone mad. The Highborne in Dire Maul lusted for power and found it within the demon known as Immo’thar. Of course, the power didn’t stay strong forever, so their leader Prince Tortheldrin begins killing other Highborne to sap their powers for his own.
