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Togath
2012-02-27, 09:06 PM
I tried to go to the WoW main site a few minutes ago and was greeted by a virus, has the link just gotten corrupted?, Or has something like what happened to EQ2 a while back happened?
edit; well, less of a virus, more of a scam, but still it looks like the WoW site has been hacked, and once I did an emergancy shutdown of my computer and restarted it I found myself logged out of my forum acount[this forum], which made me fear that there may have been a virus as well as a scam site redirecting people from the main WoW site

LansXero
2012-02-27, 09:58 PM
Must be on your end, because I can get to both www.worldofwarcraft.com and us.battle.net fine. Or maybe its just my cache'd version of them? :S

Weezer
2012-02-27, 10:06 PM
If no one else is having this trouble it could be on your end, you may be being redirected to a fake/scam WoW site by a virus of some type

nihil8r
2012-02-28, 01:16 AM
If no one else is having this trouble it could be on your end, you may be being redirected to a fake/scam WoW site by a virus of some type

you're definitely being redirected by scammers

Togath
2012-02-28, 12:37 PM
Ty for the help with figuring this out, it's good to know it's just at my end, I've removed the link in my favorites menu I used to use to get there and replaced it with a new link after I went there from google, and it seems to work fine now(I also can't find anything that has been changed on my computer, so perhaps the link just got messed up somehow, it's rather odd really, as everything works fine now that I'm using a new link).

LansXero
2012-02-28, 12:51 PM
Still, you should really run an scan of your PC for malware, perhaps that is just a symptom of a nastier program running in there. May not even be after your WoW info but your credit card data from when you subscribe.

Togath
2012-02-28, 07:49 PM
After it happened again(different website, though I didn't get logged out of anything this time, I think the forced logout was just a fluke) I searched a bit and was able to pinpoint and remove the virus.(luckily it wasn't one that hacked any information, but one that tried to scam you, though it wouldn't have found much information on the computer I use for gaming anyway, as I only use it for gaming and writing down homebrewed dnd stats in word documents, and I store most of my important information in my head or on paper or on an email acount that I never log onto on this computer, which possesses a different password, different usename and is registered under a different irl name[my full name instead of my nickname])

Ashtar
2012-02-28, 07:52 PM
Remember to change your passwords to you usual online accounts, games included. To avoid the usual, "Hey dude, where's my gear?" question.

Togath
2012-02-28, 08:05 PM
Just now noticed your post, I had the 503 error when trying to edit the one I made above, so it took me a couple minutes to get the edit to post right, and aye, I've already changed my passwords, and part of the reason I put so much effort into making sure that this computer has the minimum information on it is due to once having been hacked.(I look back on that one incident with a bit of a laugh, due to the fact that the hacker missed the actually valuable items[it was a few days after cata released and I had a few stacks of cata crafting materials, however they only went for the older items, as it seems they hadn't updated their information at the time, they also oddly went for one of my low level characters, and sold the items in his inventory, which were all greys with almost no value, it was sort of funny when those got restored along with the items I had lost which actually had value])