SonicWALL announces that their tech protects against WoW keyloggers

Posted Apr 13, 2007 at 1:29PM EST by QJ Staff

Listed in: Titles, Off Topic Tags: Blizzard, malware

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SonicWALL, a provider of various online security tools and backup and recovery solutions, have announced that users of their Unified Threat Management technology are protected against malware targeted towards players of Blizzard's dominant MMORPG World of Warcraft. SonicWALL notes that users of their dynamic threat prevention services are protected by the signatures:

• WOW.PU (Trojan) 4/4/2007 9:25:06 PM
• WOW.JE (Trojan) 4/4/2007 9:25:05 PM
• WOW.QG (Trojan) 4/4/2007 9:25:04 PM
• WOW.ET (Trojan) 3/29/2007 10:49:55 PM
• WOW.dldr.1 (Trojan) 3/23/2007 9:07:04 PM
• WOW.ET (Trojan) 3/23/2007 9:07:04 PM
• WOW.ES (Trojan) 3/23/2007 9:07:03 PM
• WOW.dldr.2 (Trojan) 3/23/2007 9:07:03 PM
• WOW.PU (Trojan) 3/12/2007 10:04:28 PM
• Wow (Trojan) 12/21/2006 3:52:15 AM
• Spy.WOW-53 (Trojan) 12/15/2006 1:58:21 AM
• Spy.WOW-39 (Trojan) 10/27/2006 1:47:06 AM
• Spy.WOW-38 (Trojan) 10/18/2006 1:19:40 AM

Alex Dubrovsky of SonicWALL's Security Centre says: "Although the malware currently only targets game players, itÂ’s important to protect against it in the workplace since keystroke loggers bring risks into a business network."

Ironically though, unless you farm for a living, WoW itself seems more of a risk to "a business network" than the keyloggers that follow. Just total all the hours that could be eaten by a 40-man-raid?

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