User Interface & Addons

Re: Stolen gold

rowaasr13 — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 20:45:24 GMT

Excuse me for rude honesty, but all your "addons stole my gold and botched quest" sounds from developer's standpoint like utter Tauren crap. There's just one way in API to get you rid of gold through addon - that's mentioned above automated mail. As you can guess, there's no way it will work overnight when you're away from WoW. And exactly ZERO ways to make quest items disappear without retracting completed status for quest itself. Either provide more correct and informative fact or go troll somewhere else. If you're absolutely sure that things were going exactly the way you've said and this suggestion manages to persuade you that it got nothing to do with addons, I highly recommend you to contact Blizzard again and tell them to proceed, so they can track it to problem with either server, your account, or your account's security in case somebody is really figured out your password.

Re: Stolen gold

omgffsLOL — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 11:19:57 GMT

Avoid small unknown addons unless you want to live risky.

Re: Stolen gold

blondfire — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 10:30:31 GMT

I am not sure about the OP but my account was just hacked the same day that the curse program updated two addons. I really wish I had looked closely which had "new versions" but I trusted Curse. Obviously I was wrong because the timing was pretty obvious.

Re: Stolen gold

mrgibby33 — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 07:17:10 GMT

i do notice that as soon as an admin posted up. i dont see any further post from the accuser.

Re: Stolen gold

Tarz — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 23:05:47 GMT

A rogue addon wouldn't come up on a virus scanner, and given that he saw gold vanish while he was logged in that kinda rules out someone having his password. Although it's always worth checking I don't think a keylogger is the culprit this time.

Re: Stolen gold

SnakersZenith — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 16:41:17 GMT

The WoW Launcher has an inbuilt scanner to make sure malicious activities don't happen.

You may have a keylogger or other virus on your computer. Scan, delete then change your password.

Re: Stolen gold

Vampyrate — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 23:03:00 GMT

What were you doing at the time the gold disappeared? Were you in a party? Were you at a vendor or AH? Were you at a mailbox or in a trade with another char?

Re: Stolen gold

Tarz — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 05:46:03 GMT

Kody wasn't asking if you accidentally mailed gold someplace - he was asking if you were near a mailbox. Addons *can* send mail on your behalf, so if you had some dubious addon then it's perfectly possible that it can transfer gold to a predetermined account by using the mail system.

That's also easily trackable by Blizzard though, so I'm sure if that's the case an investigation on their side would close the receiving accounts (thus cutting off the beasts head).

Re: Stolen gold

Joeman75 — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 18:47:27 GMT

There are some viruses which infect some online games like WOW in order to log you password.
One of them was even installed on a new harddrive:
http://www.pcwelt.de/index.cfm?pid=844&pk=99788

I suggest that you change your password and make a complete virus scan with the newest virus definition file.

Re: Stolen gold

Aeohan — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 14:49:31 GMT

Well my guess is something internal on the server, since if the gold dissapears infront of you while playing since usually you get booted if another person logs on your account.

And keyloggers etc. well take AVG Free, and scan your computer, i had a keylogger once, but my internet was so unstable so i got it removed in time... luckily. And no issues with my wow so far.

Hope you get it solved mate, since it sounds annoying.

Re: Stolen gold

Kody — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 10:24:50 GMT

Download software? I assume you mean our client. If so then of course, it's developed in our office in San Francisco.

And yes, we scan all AddOns that contain files which may contain a virus or keylogger. Do you still have the AddOns that you deleted on hand? I'd like a copy if you could email them to community@curse.com.

Re: Stolen gold

Bigernie — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 09:46:35 GMT

....and does CURSE check its own download software?

Re: Stolen gold

Bigernie — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 09:45:08 GMT

I've now removed cMinimapCoordinates.....and I'll see whether anything else happens. Does CURSE check all the addons for viruses?

Re: Stolen gold

Bigernie — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 09:40:50 GMT

No I didn't accidentally send it somewhere via a mailbox..:)

No its an addon virus mate. I have also lost quest items...like skullsplitter tusks ...I collected 18/18 went to hand in with 'Quest completed 18/18' showing...tried to hand the 18 in and there was only 13 in my pack....and no I didn't go anywhere near a bank...:) .....Then of course I couldn't collect any more tusks...because the q was 'completed'!....had to abandon it

Same with 'snuff' collected like 12/20...then found I had only 5/20.....its a little virus joke obviously. I dont know which is worst losing the gold or the quest items...:(

Re: Stolen gold

Kody — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 08:51:15 GMT

Hrm, I've never heard of that happening before -- I didn't even realize that was something possible to do with AddOns. Were you near a mailbox at the time of this happening?