Keyloggers and trojans

I have noticed a rising number of "addons" which is in fact executable files, often doing things which is possible to do IN GAME, i.e. telling how long you have played (ingame commend /played does this too), and changing realms for you (nice for those who are too lazy to log out the character, select Change Realm on the character selection list, and click the appropriate realm and character). MAYBE these programs works as promised, and is free of keyloggers and other nasties, but I do not trust any such programs, and IF I choose to download an executable related to WoW, I never run them same time, AND check all files for viruses, even if it is only a REAL addon. A tip for those of you who are afraid of keyloggers though, if you are the only one playing on your computer, let WoW remember your username, this way you only have to enter password each time you log in, and any keyloggers only get a useless password, no username to go with it... Final word of advice; Be careful with executables, you MAY loose your account!

Btw, I report ANY suspicious "addon" for the moderators to investigate for possible keylogger/virus/trojan, and would like everyone to do the same, thus making the addon community a safer place. I would hate it if Curse lost all its trust of the gamers...

Sincerely,
Arlyn Dath'anar, BE Hunter lvl 70, The Sha'tar (eu). For the Horde!

Just to further this note, i also want to make it clear for the non pc (internoob's) savi people that they should not click links on websites or in emails if they dont know what they are sending them too (its not always what the link says) and be very careful if you are playing wow at a internet cafe place. i note these as a friend had his account hacked and all items sold off and Gold taken

Make sure you have an antivirus with up-to date definitions to detect the latest viruses.

Currently I've found a good one to be Avast Home Edition. Its free for one thing and you'll be able to find it at http://avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html. Make sure you read all the information on that page as it includes information on how to obtain your free 1 year serial key (free to re-register after the year is up). Avast has a built in script blocker which if you are on a site which is using potentially dangerous scripts it will alert you and give you the option to block a connection to the requested page.

Personaly i'd recommend Avast . I use it aswell and have been spared of harm aswell. Also if you use firefox you could look in to NoScript , which prevents the execution of scripts aswell (avast might have this too but i'm not sure it is as effective)