Posted May 01, 2008 at 01:19AM by David T.
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Microsoft,
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Yup, World of Warcraft account theft is still alive and well these days. The latest modus operandi apparently involves the use of virus-infected FRAPS to steal player's account information in Blizzard's MMORPG. WoW Insider reportedly traced the Trojan to Trojan.Crypt.FKM.Gen. It was originally believed that FRAPS had a modified version of SpyLocked in it, which then installed the said Trojan into Microsoft Net Meeting. This supposedly started silently upon rebooting WIndows, whereupon it key logged passwords when players tried to log into the game. The WoW Insider virus scan readout shows this: C:Frapsfraps.exe [DETECTION] Contains detection pattern of the Phish-File/Email PHISH/FraudTool.SpyLocked.J C:Program FilesNetMeetingmstinit.exe Where [DETECTION] Is the Trojan horse TR/Crypt.FKM.Gen WoW Insider also believed that the problematic FRAPS was downloaded from the official site. Beepa, maker of FRAPS, has assured users that the downloads on fraps.com are fine. Still, WoW insider recommends that Blizzard's customers deal with this in two ways:
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[Via WoW Insider]
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