2 million NCSoft accounts stolen
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Originally Posted by Rikimaru
Norton is the worst piece of trash excuse for antivirus software I've ever encountered. That crap itself might be worse malware than half the stuff it's supposed to block. It's a miracle it has any level of popularity.
I don't know about other people, but it was actually set up in such a way that I'm incapable of removing it from my computer. |
It is sooooo stupid but this will allow you to get it off computers in the future if you stumble upon them.
BTW NORTON SUXS
avg and ad-aware are by far better and there are even better versions of those. The key selling point on them...They are ALL free.
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Originally Posted by Eragon Zarroc
still doesn't change the fact that changing ur password everynow and then is a good idea. what better time than a supposed discovery of 2million accounts having there info stolen?
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If anything, setting up a new password just ups your chances of it being noticed in any keyloggers that are hiding on one's system.
The accounts in the server are probably comprised of the outdated, already hacked ones from the hacking orgy that happened close to a year ago.
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Originally Posted by akio pwns
well, i havent had an attack on my computer other than stupid low level tracking cookies, and ill thank norton.
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Originally Posted by Rikimaru
Norton is the worst piece of trash excuse for antivirus software I've ever encountered. That crap itself might be worse malware than half the stuff it's supposed to block. It's a miracle it has any level of popularity.
I don't know about other people, but it was actually set up in such a way that I'm incapable of removing it from my computer. I was forced to sabotage the program by deleting core files so it simply could not run itself properly anymore (which was not easy to do, since you cannot delete files in use and the thing also runs itself automatically and doesn't like you forcing it to shut down). And this is from a version of it that was provided for free on a disc with my new motherboard  |
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Originally Posted by Feathermoore Rep
It ran nicely and quietly in the background and caught anything that spybot resident didnt for well over 3 years.
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but yeah as others have said... it's not who found it (even though they just got lucky) it's what was found...
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Originally Posted by shoyon456
Am I the only one happy with Norton?
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Norton is pretty terrible as an antivirus, but there's no way that they would make up something like this.
Now, the question I would like an answer to is this: Why, when WoW is more popular than NCSoft's games put together, were the thieves able to steal 10x as many NCMA credentials as WoW credentials? Oh wait, don't tell me, a fansite breach...
Now, the question I would like an answer to is this: Why, when WoW is more popular than NCSoft's games put together, were the thieves able to steal 10x as many NCMA credentials as WoW credentials? Oh wait, don't tell me, a fansite breach...
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Originally Posted by Gennadios
If anything, setting up a new password just ups your chances of it being noticed in any keyloggers that are hiding on one's system.
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Could always use something like Charmap to enter passwords with the mouse if you worry about keyloggers.
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Originally Posted by End
People seem to be under this odd ass impression that they will magically know they have a virus if their av program dosent catch it...
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Most anti-virus seem to be including more and more resident (active change monitor), so even trying to piggyback files tends to get noticed. And the number one source of keyloggers is third-party software.
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I read the article again and just realize that these "accounts" aren't actually stolen yet, but they will be soon when they know what to do with 44 million stolen account database, since no one know how best to handle 44 millions stolen information. I think this need to be made clear, it was stolen account informations and if the owner of the server containing the 44 millions account informations starts to use the database that they collected then there would be a huge upset.
I think it is wise to change our password on a regular basis.
I think it is wise to change our password on a regular basis.
I'm not sure if this is relevant to the thread, and I certainly don't want to join the Norton bashing (despite it being a bloated shitty product), but I recently noticed something in Guild Wars that seems Norton related whilst looking at some screen shots of Dhuum.
Screen shot linked... my apologies for my poor attempt at enlarging the interesting portion of the screen shot, my Photoshop skills are lacking
http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/649/dhuum01.jpg
Screen shot linked... my apologies for my poor attempt at enlarging the interesting portion of the screen shot, my Photoshop skills are lacking
http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/649/dhuum01.jpg