There is likely a keylogger on my computer.

Pip Boy · 12-09-2010, 09:56 PM

Posting this while I wait on hold with the phone people at Blizzard because my account has been hacked not once, but twice in a row, and I believe that I may have a keystroke logger on my computer. I've already uninstalled WoW and run two different anti-virus scanners, and neither showed anything helpful. Does anyone know anything about these little bastards and how to remove them?

Doc ock rokc · 12-09-2010, 10:31 PM

scan with this and call me in the morning
(Keyloggers and other such things are usually MALWARE or Spyware rather then viruses. Taking them out with a spyware remover or a malware remover is the best bet. I would also run CCCleaner on your registry to remove such shit)

also Contact blizzard. they have a way of tracking much likevalve does with steam to ensure no hacking bullshit.

Eltargrim · 12-09-2010, 10:32 PM

Short answer: reformat. That'll do it.

Long answer: try reading this article.

Never personally run into one, but they're tricky little bastards.

As an aside, do you go on any WoW forums using the same e-mail as you do for WoW? Do you use the same password?

PS: Personally my favourite anti-malware is Spybot: Search and Destroy.

Pip Boy · 12-10-2010, 12:53 AM

I don't use the same password for anything else. I actually generate my password for any forum or service using a formula based on what that is and some other things, but unless someone were to know a great deal about my personal life and every other password I'd ever used, they'd never know enough to get it. Only 2 players ever knew my information, but I trust them both, and I changed the information before I was hacked the second time, so they're in the clear.

WoW seems to be the only thing thats been affected, although I've changed all my other passwords to be on the safe side. This makes me think that the keylog was probably made specifically to go in WoW, and reinstalling it (to a non-standard directory, just to be sure) hopefully fixed it.

Doc ock rokc · 12-10-2010, 01:10 AM

it could just be that someone just hacked your wow account. It's not hard to do if you know how and even then its not hard to just drive down the street with a laptop on auto logon and steamrolling with a cracker ether.

Professor Smarmiarty · 12-10-2010, 03:30 AM

Just write lots of swearwords and hope your hacker has the sensibilities of an 18th century woman.

12-09-2010, 09:56 PM	#1
Pip Boy Sent to the cornfield Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: A right and proper Nerd Cave Posts: 2,460	There is likely a keylogger on my computer. Posting this while I wait on hold with the phone people at Blizzard because my account has been hacked not once, but twice in a row, and I believe that I may have a keystroke logger on my computer. I've already uninstalled WoW and run two different anti-virus scanners, and neither showed anything helpful. Does anyone know anything about these little bastards and how to remove them?

12-09-2010, 10:31 PM	#2
Doc ock rokc ...Really? Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: in Theory. Everything works here Posts: 3,961	scan with this and call me in the morning (Keyloggers and other such things are usually MALWARE or Spyware rather then viruses. Taking them out with a spyware remover or a malware remover is the best bet. I would also run CCCleaner on your registry to remove such shit) also Contact blizzard. they have a way of tracking much likevalve does with steam to ensure no hacking bullshit. __________________ I have a Pesterchum its DangerousDoc I am ether fading out of Time, Space, or Reality...Or Simply my Typewriter is running out of ink Last edited by Doc ock rokc; 12-09-2010 at 10:33 PM.

12-09-2010, 10:32 PM	#3
Eltargrim Fifty-Talents Haversham Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: FABULOUS Posts: 1,904	Short answer: reformat. That'll do it. Long answer: try reading this article. Never personally run into one, but they're tricky little bastards. As an aside, do you go on any WoW forums using the same e-mail as you do for WoW? Do you use the same password? PS: Personally my favourite anti-malware is Spybot: Search and Destroy. __________________ <Insert witticism here; get credit; ???; profit!>

12-10-2010, 01:10 AM	#5
Doc ock rokc ...Really? Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: in Theory. Everything works here Posts: 3,961	it could just be that someone just hacked your wow account. It's not hard to do if you know how and even then its not hard to just drive down the street with a laptop on auto logon and steamrolling with a cracker ether. __________________ I have a Pesterchum its DangerousDoc I am ether fading out of Time, Space, or Reality...Or Simply my Typewriter is running out of ink

12-10-2010, 12:53 AM	#4
Pip Boy Sent to the cornfield Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: A right and proper Nerd Cave Posts: 2,460	I don't use the same password for anything else. I actually generate my password for any forum or service using a formula based on what that is and some other things, but unless someone were to know a great deal about my personal life and every other password I'd ever used, they'd never know enough to get it. Only 2 players ever knew my information, but I trust them both, and I changed the information before I was hacked the second time, so they're in the clear. WoW seems to be the only thing thats been affected, although I've changed all my other passwords to be on the safe side. This makes me think that the keylog was probably made specifically to go in WoW, and reinstalling it (to a non-standard directory, just to be sure) hopefully fixed it.

12-10-2010, 03:30 AM	#6
Professor Smarmiarty Sent to the cornfield Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: K-space Posts: 9,758	Just write lots of swearwords and hope your hacker has the sensibilities of an 18th century woman.