Who here is in "No Authenticator Never been hacked club?"

[Deleted]

Never been hacked in 5 years and I dont have an authenticator or even basic virus protection (doing scans every week or so though). I just dont go to any wow related site other that this, worldofwarcraft.com or worldofraids.com and delete every email that has something to do with WoW without even reading it.

[Heris]

Started in 2004. Never bought any authentificator. Never got hacked. People getting hacked are usually gold & powerleveling buyers / porn watchers / ignorant web users.

[Qprah]

Started playing in Vanilla, Never been hacked. But I bought an Authenticator anyway.

2 of my closest friends got hacked, I've learned from their mistakes.


Better to be safe than sorry. It's $5 ffs, stop being dumb. (30 something for me because of shipping.)

[Cactrot]

a jeah and i think its just stupid that you have to pay for something, namely security, that should be baseline

Someone has to pay for it. Either you pay for it individually or part of our subscription fees go to it. Why should my money go towards keeping your account secure instead of development?
Also, why should an annoyance be baseline? I have 2 authenticators I got for free, as well as a phone I can get one for free on, but I have zero desire to actually use an authenticator. It's a pain. Don't act like just because you want to use the authenticator that everyone else should have to pay for it.

Started playing in Vanilla, Never been hacked. But I bought an Authenticator anyway.

2 of my closest friends got hacked, I've learned from their mistakes.


Better to be safe than sorry. It's $5 ffs, stop being dumb. (30 something for me because of shipping.)

It's not all about money you know. For some of us it's about the inconvenience of having it.

[Rageissues]

Thou shalt not click fake emails.
Thou shalt not visit suspicious websites.
Thou shalt not click ads/pop ups.
Thou shalt not blindly click links given by forum goers on mmo-champion.com
Thou shalt not download/torrent porn.

Follow these five commandments and you won't go to computer Hell. It's really that simple. No authenticator for me.

[Cactrot]

Thou shalt not click fake emails.
Thou shalt not visit suspicious websites.
Thou shalt not click ads/pop ups.
Thou shalt not blindly click links given by forum goers on mmo-champion.com
Thou shalt not download/torrent porn.

Follow these five commandments and you won't go to computer Hell. It's really that simple. No authenticator for me.

Myyyyyyyyyyyyyth. You can torrent all the porn you want. Porn isn't any more dangerous than any other mpeg or avi file. If you download "hot chixxx.exe" then yea, you might get hacked, but that's an IQ issue not a porn issue. Porn is not nearly as dangerous to your computer as most people think. I don't really have too much of an issue of thinking porns bad, but it makes people think "oh only porn sites are bad" and that just isn't the case. Porn sites are not much worse than any other type of site (and less likely to have a virus made for targetting your wow account than a wow related site)

[mittacc]

played since middle vanilla, no author, no hacks

[placeholdername]

I have no authenticator and have never been hacked.

Even still, I've been meaning to get one.

[Heris]

Thou shalt not click fake emails.
Thou shalt not visit suspicious websites.
Thou shalt not click ads/pop ups.
Thou shalt not blindly click links given by forum goers on mmo-champion.com
Thou shalt not download/torrent porn.

Follow these five commandments and you won't go to computer Hell. It's really that simple. No authenticator for me.

If you watch porn, at least watch it in streaming instead of downloading it. It's less risky.

[Cactrot]

If you watch porn, at least watch it in streaming instead of downloading it. It's less risky.

/facepalm.
No. Wrong. In every possible way. A streaming website is just as likely to have viruses as a torrent website. Probably a lot moreso. Torrenting an avi will not get you a virus. Period. Once again, if you're running hot_chixxx.rar.mpg.exe, then the issue is an IQ one not a porn one. Movie files are plenty safe, and there are plenty of sites that will let you torrent verified safe movies.

Friggin porn is the scapegoat of the internet.

[Direshadow]

To all those people who are accusing others of being retards for clicking on "strange links" you have no idea how account stealing works.

Not every evil link is along the lines of, "OMGHACKYOURACCOUNT.com" or "Thisisnotpornbutratheranhackingattemptlulz.com"

[Gkiller95]

Got hacked once no authenticator. I dont know if it was me to blame because it was from a addon at curse.com so bad luck i guess. Got a authenticator now and after every addon or update i make i scan my computer. Been hack free ever since. Though these fake emails r starting to make me mad.

[Merlocker]

Never been hacked played since vanilla got an authenticator a few months ago. I figure it can't hurt to be safe and it was only a few bucks no big deal honestly.

[Cactrot]

Actually, sir, you are wrong. It IS possible for files to contain scripts that open websites. I've seen this done before, albeit a while ago. It's quite possible this was to do with the default settings that WMP shipped with in XP (again, this was quite some time ago). I do agree people blame "everything" on porn, but you really shouldn't say "No! It's not possible for them to contain code or scripts!". Things aren't always what they seem. Torrenting a file itself, no, that won't get you infected. Viewing a movie with a script in it, yes, there's a possibility.

People said hacking into authenticator protected accounts was impossible. Yet, here we were just months ago, where a rogue DLL managed to transfer details in realtime by simply hooking into the WoW exe.



If only it WAS that simple. Ugh, the net is filled with nasties, some that are inherently unavoidable (e.g. You've got to navigate through websites to get noscript, etc). Adverts have potential to contain something unscrupulous (regardless of how you look at it, it still IS possible to do this, moreso with older browsers).

OT: I'm in the no-hacked club. Had an authenticator for ages, but only because i've no reason not to.

Yes, there were a lot of issues with media players back in the day. Pretty much all of them have been handled. Viruses gotten via browsers are far far more common, and a much bigger issue. The only way you're getting a virus from a movie file these days is if you're still running an unpatched windows XP or before install, and happen to come across a movie file that had a virus put on it from that era. The chances of that are damn near nil.

Streaming websites are far less likely to be safe than downloading from, say, a trusted seed on pirate bay (where also the comments tend to say if it sets off virus scanners) or a few websites that are specifically dedicated to porn. New exploits for movie files may be found, though it's been a long time since that was the case, but exploits for flash and javascript are a hell of a lot more common, bringing me back to my original point that streaming sites are most definitely not safer than downloaded mpgs.

[chrion]

Ive never been hacked and I have no authenticator, although 3 of my family members and atleast 10 friends from my server have been. Blizzard should REALLY, let everyone playing the game know to get an ad-on to there firefox called "script blocker". It literally should be spammed to every player when they log into the game to go get it NAO! Being on the internet without it is like pounding out a dirty hooker without a condom.

[Mijen]

Perhaps you should change the title to "No Authenticator and not been hacked yet"?

My favourite quote about this from these forums went along the lines of:

"Hey, guys, guess what? I'm immune to bullets! I have gone 20 years without being shot in the face, that means I am too smart to be hit by bullets! Right!?"

This is actually really similar to the topic at hand.

Not going to shady sites greatly reduces your chances of getting hacked.

Not wearing a rolex while going to pick up back alley hos greatly reduces your chances of being shot in the face.

So I dub your favorite quote... Fail.

[cannibalghoul]

Perhaps you should change the title to "No Authenticator and not been hacked yet"?

My favourite quote about this from these forums went along the lines of:

"Hey, guys, guess what? I'm immune to bullets! I have gone 20 years without being shot in the face, that means I am too smart to be hit by bullets! Right!?"

moar liek: "hey guys, guess what? i'm smart enough to avoid situations where i'll most likely get shot! i've gone 20 years without pissing off random thugs and gangsters, wandering through war torn areas, attacking cops, stealing chickens from rednecks, dressing as a bear in the middle of hunting season, going hunting with dick cheney, or shooting myself in the head! that means unless i get super unlucky and get stuck in a bank robbery or mall shooting, i probably won't get shot in the future!"

[laughtrey]

I was never hacked before having the authenticator, and I got it because there's really no reason to take any chances.

---------- Post added 2010-08-13 at 11:04 PM ----------

This is actually really similar to the topic at hand.

Not going to shady sites greatly reduces your chances of getting hacked.

Not wearing a rolex while going to pick up back alley hos greatly reduces your chances of being shot in the face.

So I dub your favorite quote... Fail.

Yeah except MMO-Champ itself has been compromised and the site or the ads have installed malicious software on peoples computers, it was so bad that the words "mmo-champion" was banned in WoW for a time.

Derp derp herp.

[Splenda]

I've ever been hacked, got an authenticator anyways for the pet. Plus the added security good too.

[Seregon]

A few weeks ago a friend of mine was bragging how he had never had an authenticator and never gotten hacked. The following Saturday, he got hacked. Best jinx ever! Personally I've never been hacked, but I've had an authenticator since they came out.