WoW gamers struck by password-stealing trojan

[Bio-Hazard]

World of Warcraft (http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/) gamers are seeing a rise in the plague of online scammers, with a recently released trojan (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/29/warcraft_trojan_attack/) wreaking havoc on many. Certain websites have been seeded to exploit a vulnerability in Windows and Internet Explorer that loads a trojan onto the system (http://www.techspot.com/news/23058-WoW-gamers-struck-by-passwordstealing-trojan.html#) for the sole purpose of stealing account names and passwords from WoW players:


http://www.techspot.com/news/23058-WoW-gamers-struck-by-passwordstealing-trojan.html

[tomato]

Wooo... gonna be some mad WoW players out there... they need their fix! :?

[DragonMaster]

It might help them getting out of their addiction for a while...

[=CDU=Above]

Sounds like the drug dealers...er...ehem..I mean, game developers might be trying to get the players detached from the nipple. WoW2 should be rolling off the line here pretty soon.
http://www.gamespot.com/pc/rpg/worldofwarcraftexp1/index.html

It's like asking a heron addict to try a new couph syrup.

[Llanerion]

The Burning Crusade is an expansion pack to WoW, not a sequal, so players need never leave their characters behind =p That said they're changing the game a fair bit, near-halving raid sizes etc.