Gamers Beware

Kildayen Sangre · Post by **Kildayen Sangre** » Tue Mar 25, 2008 3:52 am

Password Stealing News.

http://forums.station.sony.com/eq/posts ... _id=129719

http://www.abcnews.go.com/Technology/PC ... id=4441255

kalaniea · Post by **kalaniea** » Tue Mar 25, 2008 8:36 am

At least one of the in-game spam tells leads to a website infected with this activeX script. gm963.com. Just going to that website is dangerous if you do so with a computer running Windows.

If you just can't help but look, use a machine running OSX or Linux. Neither of these OSs run activeX,, so the code is ignored.

Ziffle · Post by **Ziffle** » Tue Mar 25, 2008 2:16 pm

Wouldnt suprise me if GM963 isnt the starting place of the hacks anyhow.

Hazinson · Post by **Hazinson** » Tue Mar 25, 2008 2:40 pm

Afriend was tellin me lastnight that over 500 players have been banned in the last 48 hours too, all using a cheat program or something. Anyone else hear this?

Takeed · Post by **Takeed** » Tue Mar 25, 2008 3:10 pm

They implemented some sort of new automatic detection for one of the bugs that allowed GK, and people are now getting banned for exploiting that bug. I hadn't seen any specific numbers, but I've heard that it's quite a few people who have gotten baned.

Post by **Chania** » Tue Mar 25, 2008 4:21 pm

Anyone we know? ~

Takeed · Post by **Takeed** » Tue Mar 25, 2008 5:27 pm

I don't think so. That was mostly from class boards / general EQ stuff. People posting stuff like "OMG 10 people in my guild posted that they were banned over the weekend" or other similar statements.

Kind of funny that they happened to do this most recent mass banning around the same time that a bunch of other people decided to quit due to the linking of spells that had been previously unlinked. I wonder how big of a subscriber hit EQ has taken in the last month or so.

Ziffle · Post by **Ziffle** » Tue Mar 25, 2008 6:06 pm

Wonder how big the hit has been due to them not doing anything about it... Much larger I assure you.

Takeed · Post by **Takeed** » Tue Mar 25, 2008 6:16 pm

I meant from the issue as a whole. Linking the spells in the first place, but like you said, also being basically unwilling to revert the changes (except for SK lifetaps, which I understand will be changed back sometime eventually, when they get around to it).

I really hate how the Devs spend their time "fixing" things that nobody considers broken, while ignoring bugs that the entire community acknowledges. I really don't blame anybody who canceled their accounts over the who fiasco.

Kildayen Sangre · Post by **Kildayen Sangre** » Tue Mar 25, 2008 6:39 pm

SoE isnt posting anthing. But the hit was big from what I have read and heard.

Ziffle · Post by **Ziffle** » Tue Mar 25, 2008 7:19 pm

I was referring to Sony never really doing anything to hackers. Not about gimp ass SK spells

kalaniea · Post by **kalaniea** » Tue Mar 25, 2008 8:28 pm

What is GK?

Post by **Dimleelit** » Wed Mar 26, 2008 12:17 am

kalaniea wrote:What is GK?

Ghost Killing.