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A Public Service Announcement
by Bluenoser and TarBomb
There are tons of people getting hacked lately. There are few ways this can happen.
A Public Service Announcement
by Bluenoser and TarBomb
There are tons of people getting hacked lately. There are few ways this can happen.
- Going to website and downloading a program that may contain a stealth key logger and some method to send the contents of the key logger to the hacker. If you think you have a key logger program active in your computer you need to try to identify it and remove it. See point 4 below.
- If you give your RotMG game email out to someone or if you are logging into a website using your RotMG game email address that is some how related to the RotMG game, then you are opening yourself up to hackers.
- Never ever and I mean NEVER give your RotMG game email address to anybody in this game. If you do, you can be hacked and loose everything! The only time the game developers need your game email address is when you create a Tech Support Ticket. Nobody else needs your game email address ever, if some one says they need your game email they are lying. If someone in game says that they are a developer or and Admin and they need your email, then they are lying.
- If you have already been hacked the first thing you need to do is check for key loggers. A good Antivirus or Firewall software should help but you can also do a Google search on "how to check for keyloggers" to show you some free tools. Once you have verified that you have removed any key logger or that you probably don't have a key logger installed you have to change the password of your RotMG gamer login.
- To change your password, first login to the game normally, then at the bottom of the login screen, use the Account tab which has a hyperlink on changing your password.
- While a password made of a mixture of numbers and symbols is moderately secure, it's also hard to remember and not as good as a pass phrase. You need both security and memorability, choose a pass phrase: a short sentence, or better yet a few unrelated words with spaces in them. (RotMG allows pass phrases). Please, Please, Please make your password a fairly long pass phrase. The longer it is the harder it will be to defeat. Make sure that you write your pass phrase down some place safe so you don't forget it. You can test the security of your pass phrase here.
- If you need or want to give someone an email address please create a fresh one that has no relationship to the RotMG game.
- You need an up to date Antivirus program at the very least. You should also be running an up to date Firewall program. There are several free ones that are very good. Your computer is not protected if either of these programs are out of date. There are many people and websites that prey on gamers that are not running these programs. Protect yourself.
Hacks and Cheating
When you sign up for the RotMG game there is a Terms of Use contract that you must agree to. Whether you read it or not you are still bound by it. Somewhere it says no bots, mods, cheat or hacks allowed, its easy to do a text search on that document.
- I ask you not to buy anything from a RWT but if you do, never ever and I mean NEVER re-use the mule they use to transport your purchases to you as one of your own mules. They have the password and the email address to that mule and they can change it anytime to re-use that mule. Its the easiest form of hacking.