Hax!

If you read Big Red Kitty's blog, you'll know that his guild bank was recently cleared out by someone who managed to hack one of the guild officer's account. It seemed to have been done using a keylogging program to get his password as the hacker managed to get his password twice!

That really brought home the message that as much as we think everything is fine and dandy and safe out there, there really are a lot of dodgy people doing dodgy stuff. Frankly, losing virtual lootz is small peanuts, even if it was the hard work of a large group of people over a period of time, but if I was that officer, I'll be much more worried about what other passwords the keylogger has access to, things that really matter in the 'RL', like bank account login, etc.

So, how to make sure the following doesn't happen to you? Go buy a proper 'Internet Security' suite, which should ideally include an Anti-virus, Malware scanner and especially a Firewall. Read the damn manual and learn to configure said Anti-virus, Firewall, and Malware scanner. If you can pour through the mumbo-jumbo about which shot-rotation is best for a 41/20 hunter, this shouldn't be too tough to understand. It's not rocket science.

End of the day, it doesn't matter if you are the most leet raider/PvPer anything if a hacker gets your password, empties your account out and delete your characters.