keylogger
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New World of Warcraft Trojan
A new trojan is out in the wild looking to steal your Warcraft login information. Once infected, this virus will attempt to log all keystrokes sent between your computer and the login servers (us.logon.worldofwarcraft.com or eu.logon.worldofwarcraft.com). Any data it collects - which would include your username and password - will then be sent off to a remote attacker. Symantec is currently reporting that the virus hasn't spread far yet, but it's time-consuming and difficult to recover a lost account, whereas it's fairly quick and painless to make sure your anti-virus definitions are up to date.
For those of you worried about security...
There is a little application I mentioned way back in September 2005: MacScan. Does it work? Well I have no idea, because I don't use it, and I've never heard of any particular spyware for the Mac. Yet somehow a new version is out which protects against "all the latest threats." Like that Dvorak virus? Anyway, MacScan is now a Univeral Binary, so you Intel Maccers can finally rest assured knowing your box is safe. At least, while it's booted into the Mac OS. Aw dang, I just couldn't get through one post without a reference to, uh, what was that thing again? The one that lets you boot into Windows?
