lot of good advice here, here's 2c, take it how ever you want
Pretty much any pc or tablet or laptop you have used your password on is now suspect and should be wiped. Say you have a laptop that you just do forum stuff on, that's suspect too. You can mess around with antivirus fixes all you want, and hey, it might work. If it does, awesome, more power to you. But the only sure way to do it is to wipe everything.
I specifically keep 2 hard drives for this. One has the OS and the other has data. So I can mess with the OS drive at will. Mind you, you have to retrieve your documents and settings first and other stuff that might be on your desktop or in your account file tree. It takes some thought.
Another level of protection is to maintain separate OS partitions for different browsing behaviors. That's pretty labor intensive. Though, when I played ********, I did setup a separate OS partition just for WC. I also have a separate PC I use for banking.
But browsing behavior and where you go on the web is a big thing. TRIBBLE sites can be a big problem. Believe it or not, there was a malware study done on TRIBBLE sites, only the most popular best maintained sites got decent ratings. And, oddly enough, webcomics are constantly getting TRIBBLE and malware put on them. The point is, something you did, somewhere you went, made you vulnerable. Thinking about it a little bit can help narrow down your risk. You really have to be careful and keep things updated as best you can.
And of course, back-end hacks are always a possiblity, where the game company is TRIBBLE. We can't do anything about that, just protect ourselves as best we can.
Good luck man
I would hope they could track these things as well, but if ******** can't do it with all their cash, duno. It would be nice if they could though.
Quite frankly, the best protection we can have for this game is that it's not a AAA title popularity wise. It's not profitable to hack this game. And the fact that EC has limited value here helps.
Just look at how elder scrolls got assaulted by criminals when it opened up. The criminals had automated everything, they had a way to generate fake (but working) account keys nonstop. They were teleporting and flying around the map. When people got good at reporting bots (robot accounts) they switched it up and had the bots move _underground_. They had the game completely TRIBBLE inside and out, from the websites to the client to the server, and everything inbetween.
lot of good advice here, here's 2c, take it how ever you want
Pretty much any pc or tablet or laptop you have used your password on is now suspect and should be wiped. Say you have a laptop that you just do forum stuff on, that's suspect too. You can mess around with antivirus fixes all you want, and hey, it might work. If it does, awesome, more power to you. But the only sure way to do it is to wipe everything.
I specifically keep 2 hard drives for this. One has the OS and the other has data. So I can mess with the OS drive at will. Mind you, you have to retrieve your documents and settings first and other stuff that might be on your desktop or in your account file tree. It takes some thought.
Another level of protection is to maintain separate OS partitions for different browsing behaviors. That's pretty labor intensive. Though, when I played ********, I did setup a separate OS partition just for WC. I also have a separate PC I use for banking.
But browsing behavior and where you go on the web is a big thing. TRIBBLE sites can be a big problem. Believe it or not, there was a malware study done on TRIBBLE sites, only the most popular best maintained sites got decent ratings. And, oddly enough, webcomics are constantly getting TRIBBLE and malware put on them. The point is, something you did, somewhere you went, made you vulnerable. Thinking about it a little bit can help narrow down your risk. You really have to be careful and keep things updated as best you can.
And of course, back-end hacks are always a possiblity, where the game company is TRIBBLE. We can't do anything about that, just protect ourselves as best we can.
Good luck man
I would hope they could track these things as well, but if ******** can't do it with all their cash, duno. It would be nice if they could though.
Quite frankly, the best protection we can have for this game is that it's not a AAA title popularity wise. It's not profitable to hack this game. And the fact that EC has limited value here helps.
Just look at how elder scrolls got assaulted by criminals when it opened up. The criminals had automated everything, they had a way to generate fake (but working) account keys nonstop. They were teleporting and flying around the map. When people got good at reporting bots (robot accounts) they switched it up and had the bots move _underground_. They had the game completely TRIBBLE inside and out, from the websites to the client to the server, and everything inbetween.
Good post.
I have 2 pc's one is usually a backup incase the one I'm currently suffers something huge. So I'm prob going to switch back to that one, its all clean, have everything I have on this one for security and it should allow me to clean the current one. Might even do a few upgrades since its been a bit of time since I've done so. Not that its too far out of current tech.
Ive cut down hugely on some of the sites I use to go.. I'm a guy.. ill leave that there for interpretation lol. My ideal situation would be to have a few comps on the go, one strickly for STO, the other for browsing and the other for my graphic art stuff. As I do dable in that.
But your feedback is great, and ill prob follow some of the suggestions you have mentioned.
So very much appreciated for the good lengthy post.
I have 2 pc's one is usually a backup incase the one I'm currently suffers something huge. So I'm prob going to switch back to that one, its all clean, have everything I have on this one for security and it should allow me to clean the current one. Might even do a few upgrades since its been a bit of time since I've done so. Not that its too far out of current tech.
Ive cut down hugely on some of the sites I use to go.. I'm a guy.. ill leave that there for interpretation lol. My ideal situation would be to have a few comps on the go, one strickly for STO, the other for browsing and the other for my graphic art stuff. As I do dable in that.
But your feedback is great, and ill prob follow some of the suggestions you have mentioned.
So very much appreciated for the good lengthy post.
Cheers mate,
Loc
thanks, yeah, it's a problem facing us all, not just gamers
I forgot to mention the obvious too. people sharing pcs and passwords, also roommates, but I figured you had that covered
I use different browsers for different things too, I am fond of firefox with a few addons, noscript and the anti-ad stuff, you can also set it to void cookies and history on exit. people have a lot of opinions on browsers, they get like people used to about OSs, kind of religious. I don't know if that's the best thing, seems good. you have to get used to individually enabling scripts per page though, as needed.
I should also mention flash. on the little laptop I do banking with I dont' even have flash or acrobat installed. from time to time, adobe products are a gigantic security hole. I do my best to keep that stuff updated. AND, there's flash-cookies now. It pays to delete those from time to time as well.
phishing emails, trojens, the list goes on and on. too much to write about. one thing is worth mentioning though. many browsers have a dedicated spot where they put downloaded items. it's important to delete things from there all the time. right after you use them. malware/hackware will replace executables in that location with bugged stuff.
just have to do your best, read up on stuff, figure out what you want to tackle. unfortunately nothing is 100% here.
I know from banking experience the best approach is a "offensive-style-defense" or the "broken-window theory". Basically that means you have to keep eyes on your stuff and when something is out of line (no matter how small) you call and email people and find out about it right away.
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lot of good advice here, here's 2c, take it how ever you want
Pretty much any pc or tablet or laptop you have used your password on is now suspect and should be wiped. Say you have a laptop that you just do forum stuff on, that's suspect too. You can mess around with antivirus fixes all you want, and hey, it might work. If it does, awesome, more power to you. But the only sure way to do it is to wipe everything.
I specifically keep 2 hard drives for this. One has the OS and the other has data. So I can mess with the OS drive at will. Mind you, you have to retrieve your documents and settings first and other stuff that might be on your desktop or in your account file tree. It takes some thought.
Another level of protection is to maintain separate OS partitions for different browsing behaviors. That's pretty labor intensive. Though, when I played ********, I did setup a separate OS partition just for WC. I also have a separate PC I use for banking.
But browsing behavior and where you go on the web is a big thing. TRIBBLE sites can be a big problem. Believe it or not, there was a malware study done on TRIBBLE sites, only the most popular best maintained sites got decent ratings. And, oddly enough, webcomics are constantly getting TRIBBLE and malware put on them. The point is, something you did, somewhere you went, made you vulnerable. Thinking about it a little bit can help narrow down your risk. You really have to be careful and keep things updated as best you can.
And of course, back-end hacks are always a possiblity, where the game company is TRIBBLE. We can't do anything about that, just protect ourselves as best we can.
Good luck man
I would hope they could track these things as well, but if ******** can't do it with all their cash, duno. It would be nice if they could though.
Quite frankly, the best protection we can have for this game is that it's not a AAA title popularity wise. It's not profitable to hack this game. And the fact that EC has limited value here helps.
Just look at how elder scrolls got assaulted by criminals when it opened up. The criminals had automated everything, they had a way to generate fake (but working) account keys nonstop. They were teleporting and flying around the map. When people got good at reporting bots (robot accounts) they switched it up and had the bots move _underground_. They had the game completely TRIBBLE inside and out, from the websites to the client to the server, and everything inbetween.
Good post.
I have 2 pc's one is usually a backup incase the one I'm currently suffers something huge. So I'm prob going to switch back to that one, its all clean, have everything I have on this one for security and it should allow me to clean the current one. Might even do a few upgrades since its been a bit of time since I've done so. Not that its too far out of current tech.
Ive cut down hugely on some of the sites I use to go.. I'm a guy.. ill leave that there for interpretation lol. My ideal situation would be to have a few comps on the go, one strickly for STO, the other for browsing and the other for my graphic art stuff. As I do dable in that.
But your feedback is great, and ill prob follow some of the suggestions you have mentioned.
So very much appreciated for the good lengthy post.
Cheers mate,
Loc
thanks, yeah, it's a problem facing us all, not just gamers
I forgot to mention the obvious too. people sharing pcs and passwords, also roommates, but I figured you had that covered
I use different browsers for different things too, I am fond of firefox with a few addons, noscript and the anti-ad stuff, you can also set it to void cookies and history on exit. people have a lot of opinions on browsers, they get like people used to about OSs, kind of religious. I don't know if that's the best thing, seems good. you have to get used to individually enabling scripts per page though, as needed.
I should also mention flash. on the little laptop I do banking with I dont' even have flash or acrobat installed. from time to time, adobe products are a gigantic security hole. I do my best to keep that stuff updated. AND, there's flash-cookies now. It pays to delete those from time to time as well.
phishing emails, trojens, the list goes on and on. too much to write about. one thing is worth mentioning though. many browsers have a dedicated spot where they put downloaded items. it's important to delete things from there all the time. right after you use them. malware/hackware will replace executables in that location with bugged stuff.
just have to do your best, read up on stuff, figure out what you want to tackle. unfortunately nothing is 100% here.
I know from banking experience the best approach is a "offensive-style-defense" or the "broken-window theory". Basically that means you have to keep eyes on your stuff and when something is out of line (no matter how small) you call and email people and find out about it right away.