QUOTE(lilzany @ Mar 10 2007, 01:01 PM)
Well, if they suspect you of buying gold even when you farmed it yourself, you will still get suspended. My account was hacked and deleted the other time and when I asked for a character restore, they see the gold I have and immediately put a hold on it. I can't prove myself (and I have already quit for about 8 months. I told them my intention was to farm so I can buy the epic flying mount asap after TBC. But you know what, its just damn great that something I worked so hard disappeared just like that. They would reinstate my account immediately only if I agreed to a gold deduction sum. They are definitely testing the limits of my patience right now!
make a big fuss about it then. but you'll need to sound convincing. no swearing or cursing but logical. I had a friend who got into the same situation and he had to literally throw a fit to get it back. I read the last email that reinstated his account. It was from the supervisor so somehow he managed to convince them to reinstate his account.
As for getting account hacked into, there's not much Blizz can do and a lot of times, unfortunately, they would depend on the player to take the necessary precautions to do so. As a player, we can't do much either.
I'm trying to dig up a posting from a guildie on protecting oneself. Doesn't work if you're playing in a CC though.
QUOTE(joblessnoob @ Mar 10 2007, 07:44 PM)
how much gold do yo have that blizard considered it as a lot?
Less than 100 gold seems to be safe. that's the smallest amount that i've sent with no problems. Haven't said that, I've had friends who received warnings when they transfer money between bank alts and I've never had any problems so far.
Added on March 10, 2007, 8:20 pmLooking back at how it all went, his email to them was "I did nothing wrong and that Blizz has not provided evidence that I have done anything wrong".
The strange bit was that he was hack on a MAC and not a PC. In the end, he reformatted everything and I think has since banned his sister from using that computer. Something like that I think.
Here's some tips from another guildie. :
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If your computer is connected via a DSL card/DSL modem with no firewall/nating. Buy yourself a DSL router, with firewall, enable the firewall and block all incoming connections. If you can't afford/find a DSL router with a firewall, get one with natting rules, and dissable all incoming NAT translations (The poor mans firewall).
Make sure you've got firewall software on your PC, then even if there is a open connection through your firewall router, the PC firewall should restrict the applications these IP Ports are allowed to use.
Current and updated anit virus and anti-spyware softare.
Make sure you OS, has the latest software updates and patchs.
NEVER play WoW at an Internet cafe.
NEVER lets others use your account, espiecally from other computers.
Chose a cyrptic password, and change it often. Sometimes it's just a brute force attack that gets you. e.g St4g%mOn75rS
Don't use WoW gold or leveling services - a lot of these a just outright scammers.
Don't click on links in WoW related forums, unless your very sure it's safe. Some forums have exellent moderation, and squash scams fast. Others are there just to scam you. Infact be carefull of all the sites on the internet you visit. Porn sites are infamous for install trojans, and spy-ware.
Don't use file sharing services such as Kazaa, thats just asking for trouble, espiecally if your downloading warez.
Be very carefull of the WoW mods you install, many of these now contain trojan key loggers.
There are very few actual skilled Hackers, the vast majority of people who do this stuff rely on toolkits developed by skilled hackers (Script kiddies). So the will always go after the weekest targets. Even a moderatly secure network, and some caution online will provide ample protection against 99.9% of the threats.
And make sure you backup you data.
Do some reading online on how to protect yourself, and keep up to date with the latest threats and scams.
After 10 years online, I've never been virused, trojaned or scammed. I may be paranoid, but a least I'm safe.
Think there's also a well-written posting somewhere in the LYN WoW forums about security as well. Can't remember where the posting was but there was a useful link to a KeyLogger Detection Program. That program took a fair chunk of memory though so if u're running a lot of addons already and limited RAM available, then you might rethink using it all the time.
This post has been edited by myremi: Mar 10 2007, 08:20 PM 
Mar 9 2007, 07:13 AM
he's now going to monitored more closely if he were to get another account.
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