Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Dowding on October 01, 2007, 11:07:43 AM
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I received a dodgy looking email today rom "vivogame", a company that allows you to purchase in-game currency for MMORPGs from what I can make out. Basically they were asking me to confirm a purchase made through my paypal account. Coming from a gmail account I dismissed it as spam, but checked my paypal account anyway. Unfortunately this showed two transactions with this company for £110! I've had these disputed with paypal, and they are now refunded, but I'm baffled as to where they got my details from - particularly the password. It means either my machine is infected with a key press trojan (I use a hardware firewall and up to date anti-virus software) or they have access to a 3rd party database somewhere.
I've had to change passwords for everything from amazon accounts to internet banking and am considering wiping my machine and starting again.
How embarrassing - ripped off by an Eve Online nerd! :confused:
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Use SwagVault for all your isk needs.
I <3 chinese farmers.
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Better get to the bottom of the problem... if you have a keylogger.. changing passwords is useless till you have rid the trojan.
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You'd have to be a huge nerd to spend 110 pounds on in-game mmorpg currency. A gargantuan nerd in fact.
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Originally posted by AquaShrimp
You'd have to be a huge nerd to spend 110 pounds on in-game mmorpg currency. A gargantuan nerd in fact.
Depends on your perspective. 110 pounds comes out to something like 5 billion in game currency. That a good 6 months to a years work, many hours a night, every night...
or you click a button, swipe a credit card, get your game monies, and go play.
my time is worth way more than sitting around farming, but I still want the good toys in the game.
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This is another reason why Aces High is the best cheap entertainment out there...:aok
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Originally posted by 1K3
This is another reason why Aces High is the best cheap entertainment out there...:aok
Yeah pretty much, but it's air quake. Longest term investment is a 262, which are disposable once you get good at high ENY fighters. If you grab 3 or 4 fields... doesn't matter, game will reset eventually.
Eve has some really cool stuff that a lot of other games can't match.
If I need some instant gratification, Aces High it is.
If I want something long-term, skill trees, massive fleet battles, then it's Eve.
Can't really compare them because it's 2 entirely different skill sets. AH2 is all hands on, tangible skill. Eve is tons of planning with a few minutes of fury.
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A scan for spyware using my anti-virus found nothing. But then it wouldn't if it missed it coming onto my system I guess. I'll download another.
if you have a keylogger.. changing passwords is useless till you have rid the trojan.
I only use this machine and my work desktop (and that is behind a big corporate firewall etc). I'm starting to think a 3rd party has had a breach.
You'd have to be a huge nerd to spend 110 pounds on in-game mmorpg currency. A gargantuan nerd in fact.
Not if it was someone else's hard-earned. :D
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That'll teach you for being gay.