WoW, this sucks

[dragosteel]

So, in the early afternoon yesterday, I go to log onto WoW.  I get a password error.... oh crap.  Fearing the worse I hop onto the WoW website to change my password, try it again and get a message that my account is suspended.... aww crap.  I check my email and apparently I was banned because some douchebag hacked into my account, wiped all the gear from 3 of my toons clean out all the worthwhile items from the guild bank and its gold, then had the audacity to advertise with my character(s), which was the reason for the ban.  I got an email today with the ban lifted, because they know it wasn't me. So, after work tonight I get to go home open a gm ticket and wait to get all my stuff back. What a pain in the ass!

01/28/09 Update.
Got most of my stuff back yesterday, they need to further investigate some stuff before the rest of the items and my gold are returned.  Would have gotten it sooner, but somehow my escalated gm ticket got wiped out. Oh, and a big thanks to dragonoflife  for the recommendation of lavasoft adware, that program found an alarming ammount of stuff, macafee sucks.

Comments

[dragonoflife.livejournal.com]

Did you clean your system thoroughly?

[dragosteel.livejournal.com]

with a wire bristle brush and ajax

[dragonoflife.livejournal.com]

Well, that may not help...

Bad news is, restoration queues are about two weeks long right now.

[dragosteel.livejournal.com]

When you were over last night you mentioned a program to help wipe out the key logger if it was still there, what was the name of the program again?

[dragonoflife.livejournal.com]

Lavasoft AdAware.

[tigerphoenix.livejournal.com]

Aw man dude, I'm sorry.

I guess I will have to nag Dragon to get me that authenticator I want even more now. :/ That's the second or third person I know who's been hacked in a year now. :/

[dragosteel.livejournal.com]

yeah, I purchased an authenticator today, $6.50 free shipping.