![]() Yep that’s one plus, that’s the main delivery system for this proposed ‘ Security feature ‘, keeping people in the mindset that they are alot safer now this little gadget is around, which is for a fair part true. In fact if you have an iPhone or iPod Touch you can download it free of charge. #1 The Authenticator is really quite cheap. Blizzard are not being honest and this authenticator thing – is simply another scam made to make you spend more money. Personally – it is time to quit Warcraft. What is that? Especially when most of us know how to use antivirus programs. It is big buisiness and probably the reason Game Masters could be selling peoples accounts without their knowledge.Īgain – a belief but I know heaps of people now (not a few) who are getting hacked and Blizzard claiming middle man attacks. Unfortunately Wow is no longer a safe game to play – and if you use Battlenet there is a risk you could give your bank details to hackers. During the hack Blizzard closed his account for gold selling. A friend of mine recently got hacked and he had an authenticator on his account and didnt even use his computer 3 months. It is the sheer number of people being hacked that is the problem. Blizzard (probably for legal reasons) are denying everything but we now believe almost for certain that inside trading is going on inside Blizzard selling accounts and gold and what have you without anyone’s knowledge. Unfortunately a lot of people are now complaining about these Authenticators. ![]() Safe browsing habits, a good anti-virus, common sense (against phishers) and things like an Authenticator can make your account virtually hack proof. It is really unfortunate that people are getting hacked even with this security measure but it all comes down to the user. Tools like the Authenticator can only do so much. If you have it then your account most likely has already been hacked. If you want to check to see if you have the virus just search for the file “emcor.dll” on your computer. So the Authenticator is not a fail safe way to keep accounts safe but it is still a very good investment. A Blizzard employee said this about the recently hacked WoW accounts that used Authenticators. The virus intercepts the Authenticator code when you log into WoW and sends Blizzard a wrong one (which is why you can’t log in since you will get a “Wrong info” error) and then the people behind the virus have a few minutes to log into your account with the real Authenticator code. There is a virus going around that can hack the World of Warfcraft Authenticator. So every time you log in to your WoW account you get an extra random password that only the owner of the Authenticator can know.įrom what I know there hasn’t been a case of an account that used an Authenticator getting hacked but that changed today. Basically what it does is it gives you a set of random digits that you put in with your original password. The Authenticator for WoW has a reputation for being hack proof and because of that a lot of people own one. Companies of course take steps to protect customers like Blizzard’s Authenticator for World of Warcraft but recent events show that even these aren’t fool proof. All the work that you put in to your account can be gone and the process of getting your character and items back is a painful and long process. The worst possible thing to happen to a MMO player is getting their account hacked.
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