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How To Avoid Hacks and Keyloggers Stealing Your Toons

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:02:06 +0200

"This is Part One of keeping your Online Gaming Accounts safe. This entry applies to everything online that requires a password to gain access - not just games. Email accounts, Online Gambling accounts, Online Banking accounts - anything you log into over the Internet can be subject to attack by hackers. The more you know about the scams in place, the safer you and your online accounts are. Spyware, Keylogging “trojan” programs on your computer and even your own wish to ‘fast track' your advancement are serious threats when it comes to the privacy of your personal information, and security of your online gaming characters. The three major ways you'll find your online accounts ‘hacked into' include: Visiting a ‘rogue' website that exploits flaws in Internet Explorer and plants a keylogger or password sniffer on your computer without your awareness (note, anyone who uses your computer could do this unknowingly). Having your trust abused by unscrupulous individuals who claim to work for the company providing the online service and then demand your username and password with a threat of banishment Purposely giving out your account information (username and password) with the hopes of being able to “hack” the system yourself, usually to gain virtual items, money or levels without following the “usual” route. Internet Explorer is the world's most popular browser for those who use Microsoft Windows as their operating system, specifically because Internet Explorer comes installed with Windows computers, and most users (especially novice ones) won't think to replace or even upgrade it. Unfortunately, because IE is so popular, and because so few users keep their software up-to-date, many hackers have focused their time developing programs and websites to exploit Internet Explorer's known flaws. There are a LOT of browser exploits out there. While all Windows users should visit WindowsUpdate.com once a month to catch up on Microsoft's various security updates for the entire Operating System, Internet Surfers who wish to protect their online information should strongly consider moving away from Internet Explorer. " "If you see items mentioned in chat in square brackets: WTS [Pants of Might] /w me you can click on the item name to see a description of it.

Normally it is for a level 63 and of no interest. A full translation of that message is ""I would like to sell my Pants of Might. If you happen to be interested, please use the chat facility to whisper me for more information"". If you are composing a message you can shift-click on an item to put a link to its description in your message. You have to remember to open your bags before you start typing as shift-B will just type a capital B. If someone talks in chat, you can click on their name and reply or ignore them (if they are advertising wowgold). wow gold If the wowgold whispers annoy you then, er, tough. You might try /dnd for ""do not disturb"" but this will hide all messages. You can ignore the wowgolder but within five minutes they will be back with a different character on a new account. wow gold Use: /1 to talk on the general channel and ask silly questions /2 to talk on the trade channel and advertise your wares /3 to tell everyone you've seen a horde and you think people might care WoW chat crib sheet: ty: thank you for that buff/helping kill that monster np: no problem yw: you're welcome lol: that was highly amusing mob: aka monster, enemy, baddie, creep, thing add: you are happily fighting a monster/enemy/baddie/creep/thing when an additional monster wants to join in. zomg pwned: Sir I bow down to your superior playing skills, even though I am only 12. WTB: Want to buy WTS: Want to sell WTF: not what you'd think noob: you've only been playing for three weeks, I've been playing for four. wow power leveling Gank: to kill a lower level player because you can it will spoil their day. teh: I'm a rebel and an anarchist and spelling words correctly just isn't for me nerf pallys: I cannot beat the average paladin player so I implore the games creators to handicap them in some highly frustrating way.

Do they really need weapons. mp3 players imba: class skills are imbalanced (sic) so nerf pallys. dude ur a noob: I am a moron and struggle to form sentences. Web Sites WoW Wiki A WoW encyclopedia ThottBot a database of all items in the game and comments about how people have pwned other people with them. wow gold lol. Paladin Guide a detailed analysis of Paladin Play. Interesting use of Judgement of Light and Judgement of Wisdom in a raid. wow gold Jame's Levelling Guide a cheatsheet/walkthrough to save you the trouble of finding your way around yourself: except it only starts at level 30.

Intro To Deathknell, Part 2: Warcraft Home of the Undead

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:59:47 +0200

"Heading Out To Quest As an Undead, you've already learned a lot about moving around and interacting with the game in a way that other races haven't had to do yet. If you got lost in the graveyard to the south of the town of Deathknell, or if you have already taken time to explore a little bit, you're way ahead of Orcs and Trolls who haven't had to worry about getting lost yet. From here on in, however, the playability-difficulty is about the same for all races. Shadow Priest Sarvis has given you a “starter quest” designed to get you to give you a bit of battle experience and get you to level 2, so let's get to it! Turn around and head back outside, then continue north along the town path, down past Deathguards Bartrand and Randolph and through the gate they guard. Always re-read your quest objectives before heading out to fight. As your Quest Log (the letter “L” on your keyboard to bring it up) fills up, reading quest objectives and planning your attack becomes more important. Depending on how many other brand new players are running around, finding Wretched and Mindless Zombies may be easy or difficult. You might want to take a look at the Zone Map before you run too far away from the Deathguards - by hitting ‘m' you can bring up a map that is much larger than the minimap. The You-Arrow appears on this map so you know where you are and what direction you're facing just like in the Minimap. The Deathknell area is rather small compared to the rest of the map, so take a bit of time to memorize where the town is, where you're standing right now, before you head out to take on the zombies. Being able to use the ‘m' map to find specific spots in a zone is crucial.

The World of Warcraft is HUUUUUGE. Start your good habits early. Zombie-killing Tips Since you're in a newbie zone, most of the quest targets are named in yellow, meaning they are ‘neutral' in status towards you, and you can walk by them without any fear of them lashing out and drawing you into battle. Each newbie zone DOES have a small selection of ‘aggro' mobs/enemies, however, so be aware! Once your targets get to level 4 or so, they're likely to also be named in red, meaning they'll attack if you get too close. Wretched and Mindless Zombies are level 1 and 2 creatures, however, so they won't attack you first and won't try to defend their fellow zombies who are being killed beside them. This first quest is designed to be an easy fight for a new player who isn't interested in experiencing game death quite yet. You should be able to go into this with confidence, just looking to have fun and explore, and you'll do fine. Choosing Between Quest Rewards Once you've toasted 8 Mindless Zombies and 8 Wretched Zombies and picked up all of the loot from their corpses (keep everything!), head back to the town of Deathknell so you can turn in your quest to Shadow Priest Sorvis. I'll bet you're level 2 by this time - congratulations! When you turn in the quest, you'll be presented with a choice of equipment reward before receiving your cash and equipment reward for the successful completion. wow gold If you forget what equipment you're already using, you can type ‘c' while the quest-solve window is open. As a brand new player with barely any equipment, you're best to choose the equipment that is NOT colored entirely red (meaning you cannot equip it as the class you are playing) but DOES have the highest AC (armor class) rating. " "While replacing a highly-targetted-for-hacking browser with one less focused on is an important first step, it's also important to acknowledge that hackers are constantly releasing new software and websites and trying new tricks to steal your online accounts from you.

For this reason, you should be scanning your computer on a regular basis (at least once a month) to detect and remove spyware, data harvesters and keyloggers from your Windows PC. Download Lavasoft's Ad Aware SE (for your home computer, there's a free version). wow gold Then, make sure all aspects of it are updated (when you first download it, there may still be updates you need to download immediately after installation) and then let it scan your drives. This may take a while if you, like me, have large drives. It's worth the wait but you might want to let it scan overnight if you've never scanned before. wow Remove *ALL* of the things that Ad Aware SE finds. You may have to right-click the list and choose “select all” before proceeding if you have a long list. I had a friend with over 700 items in this list the first time we cleaned his computer up, and once they were all removed, his browsing sped up tremendously again. Download Spyware Search & Destroy (these can both be found in Tucows directory) and do the same things as were done for Ad Aware in the previous paragraph. wow gold I find that these two programs work nicely together to keep my drive clean, with my doing weekly scans. Never PURPOSELY Share Your Account Information Or Password Any web link you get from an email that brings you to a page where you're supposed to enter sensitive information like your credit card, bank info or passwords, don't do it!

Alliance leveling Guide - Chapter I (30-40)

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:58:09 +0200

"This is v2.0 of the guide. It has been revamped as mentioned in this news post to adapt to patch v2.3 changes. You can still find the old version of the guide here. At the same time, many other improvements have been made: Introduction/Addons section has been updated Kill everything on your way rule has been lifted unless you lack experience compared to the progress described in the guide ALL big grinding sessions have been removed and replaced by quest circuits Quests that aren't elite anymore have been integrated New patch 2.3 content has been integrated Maps have been remade and a lot of errors have been corrected Detailed map for Shimmering Flats circuit has been added Dustwallow Marsh circuits have been added Overall grinding has been decreased and leveling should be possible at a faster pace than before Introduction This guide starts at level 30, if you need guides for any other level range (from 1-30 for example) please take a look at this page. This guide is not a follow up of any guide, however it will be to your advantage if you did Boston's Leveling Guide, because a lot of flight path gathering is done there: Boston's Alliance Leveling Guide. This guide is optimized for FAST leveling with a minimum of grinding sessions. Quests are important, they give rewards and faction and are less boring than pure grinding. Some people say that grinding is always faster than questing, this is true in theory when you don't know which quests to takeand which to avoid, and what is the best order to do them in. With this guide, questing will be very efficient and much better than pure grinding. Follow each instruction carefully and you will see for yourself. The quest choices and order to do them in are optimized so that you run as little as possible while doing the most possible and then turning several quests in at the same time.

This guide will be very useful for both veteran and novice players. I try to keep the amount of information as short as possible. So even the guide itself is optimized for the minimum reading possible, to save time! Let's get started immediately then! Everything described in this guide can be done solo (besides when I say otherwise). wow gold However you can follow this guide while duoing, grouping, it's not a problem, it works too. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Basic rules As soon as you see that you start to lack experience compared to the progress described in the guide start to kill everything that is on your way while traveling and that gives experience (Yellow mobs preferably, but greens are ok if they are just 3-4 levels below you, not more). Spend your talent points so you do the most damage possible. (e.g: Priest should specialize in Shadow Talents, Warriors in Arms/Fury, Rogues Combat/Assassination, etc). Don't waste your time trying to find groups for questing, you can solo everything that is described in this guide. Only group with someone when it's not gonna be a waste of time (e.g: meeting the person at the other end of the zone to show him the way to where your quest is - that is a waste of time) Try to always log out in an inn or in one of the major cities when you take a break. If I don't mention a quest, it means I consider it a waste of time, so don't take it thinking I forgot a quest here and there, I didn't. wow gold Also don't abandon a quest unless I say you should. Sometimes I will be making lists of quest you should have before starting with an area, that doesn't mean I will list the whole quest log, JUST the quests that interest us for the moment. When I say you should bind (make an inn your home location) somewhere, it's for a good reason, and it will save you much time.

Don't change your home location until I say so. " "With the passing of my previous guild into the world of the casual, I felt it was in my best interest to continue my addiction to end game raiding on another server. cheap wow gold Plenty of people enjoy end game raiding and progression, and I get as much enjoyment out of it as anyone else. However, playing with people that share that same passion for the game as I do, is of the utmost importance to me, and something I believe I found with the current guild I am trialing with, Premonition of the Alleria. I poured a good 2-3 hours into my application, something I believe the leadership in Premonition recognized, as they extended me a trial. The one caveat to all of this is I would have to raid as Feral, yes, Feral, you know, Mangle, Shred, Lacerate, Growl. wow gold Without hesitation I accepted there offer and after two weeks of raiding I have gone from Lifebloom extraordinaire to a Illidan Phase 2 tanking, Al'ar platform jumping, Vashj smashing bundle of furry tanking love. I love being Feral, and pride myself on the knowledge I have of my class, but still have quite a bit to learn to be on par with my tanking peers in Premonition. It's the little things that matter as a Feral. mp3 players Farie Fire up at all times, watching CC when swiping, and reapplying OoC are a few of the things I have to burn into my brain if I am going to succeed. With 2.4 out today my skills will be put to the test. I love this game, and I love playing my Druid, be it Resto or Feral. wow gold Oh, and check out this nifty Feral Druid Crit Immune Calculator for those new feral druids out there. sodaltech are the pioneers in paper cone machine, paper cone machines,

wow update

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:55:46 +0200

"Thanks to everyone for their wow leveling guide support! This site is taking off. I've received a number of emails requesting that I write another Gold Making Guide. Some people have also requested that I write a detailed wow leveling guide. (its in the works) I've been chatting with some wow friends inside my guild and 5 of them will each be writing their own guide on how to make gold in World Of Warcraft. It's going to be very awesome, let me tell you a little about one them.. Xuion is a guild mate and he has already made over 40,000 gold using his self taught system. The interesting thing about it is...he's only been playing for 4 short months! So 40,000 gold in 4 months. Thats INSANE. He's going to reveal all of his secrets and its going to be completely FREE. The only place you can find it will be on this website. (He's also going to make a guide for horde) I have 4 more friends that offered to write different gold making guides. Each one of these people currently carry at LEAST 30,000 gold on them. Thats not the total gold made...thats just how much they have. I'm sure they have made a LOT more than that. The guides should be up within the next 1 to 3 weeks. So make sure you check back. I'll be posting them one by one as I receive them. Were also talking about making a detailed wow leveling guide, better than Jame's, Brians, and Joana's...and its going to be completely FREE (if we decide to do this). As a site note, our guide. wont be available for the next few months. However if you are looking for a world of warcraft leveling guide the best ones on the market right now Are Team IDemise 1-70 (Alliance) and Joana's Guide (Horde).

I've tried a ton and those are the only ones I've used with success. I've leveling so many characters that I really don't need a guide anymore. I'll also note that one of my guild members has the SECOND fastest time to level (1-70) in the world. He beat Joana too! So you're going to get a really awesome wow leveling guide written by some of the best players in the world, and it is going to be completely free. " "We just know you will be able to find everything you are looking for. Please look to your right for all of the free world of warcraft guides we have available. If you cannot find what you need than feel free to contact us with a recommendation. Our goal is to collect and write wow guides from all over the place. wow gold World of Warcraft is our favorite game and we are seriously addicted to it. Don't play too much or the addiction will rub off on you (if it hasn't already). lol. We were working on our very own world of warcraft leveling guide but unfortunately it has been delayed for now. wow gold We thank everyone for their patience and understanding. It should be out by the time the 3rd expansion hits. Our goal is to include detailed instructions for the new expansion, so hopefully we can get into beta. world of warcraft gold We have not been playing as much the past few months - although that will soon change. We still love the game, although we think Blizzard could be doing a better job than they are. I know there are a lot of hunters reading this - but they seriously baby you guys. I have a level 70 hunter myself - so I can say that.

wow gold It's the most popular class in the game and they keeping giving them more power. My poor druid keeps getting nerfed. lol. mp3 player I'm not complaining, just ranting for now. Hunters are still a great class. I would have to say, as much as I have hated my druid (due to constant nerfs), they are still my favorite class in the game. I recently sold the account my druid was on and I miss it. wow gold Blizzard seems to always pick on druids. If you hit up the druid forums you'll see what I mean. I have to admit that for awhile feral druids were over-powered but Blizzard quickly fixed this.

World of Warcraft Guides Review

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:53:10 +0200

"One of the major questions I continously get asked is which WoW guides do I recommend that are ACTUALLY useful and worth the cost. I have went through all of the ones that I have ever heard of and tried. Yes, I have what seems to wasted a lot of money on a bunch of crap guides before finding the few gems that are truly out there. This page is the results that I have discovered during ""my journey"". I will list all the guides that I use pretty much on a regular basis, rated, and would recommend to my mother (if she played WoW), so you will not have to go through the trouble (and cost) of buying a bunch of guides that simply do not work. So I guess this really is what I would consider a guide of the World of Warcraft guides. Derek has really done it again and this guide has really surpassed my expectations. He has really taken this to the next level with his TOTALLY IN-GAME WoW speed leveling guide. Many of you probably remember Derek from Derek's Gold Mastery Guide (that's why the name sounds famaliar). Not only is this guide completely in-game (no more alt+tab), but it is extremely easy to use and takes up hardly any space on your user interface in the game. You can also mark steps complete, hide steps you don't want to do, and also save your progress. That comes in extremely handy especially when leveling up more than 1 character at a time. His team of programmers are also going to continue to update the guide for you and make it better and better. Derek has really raised the bar with this one. If you haven't checked it out yet I highly recommend that you do! This is what I consider to be one of the best Horde & Alliance 1-70 WoW Guide on the market today.

No, it isn't Brian Kopp's guide...it is iDemise 1-70 Horde & Alliance Powerleveling Guide. Don't get me wrong Brian Kopp has a great resource but iDemise has delivered more than I have ever thought possible. This guide has really got it together and even includes a great addon (MapMod) that will help guide you where you need to go to help so you won't be Alt-Tabbing back and forth as much as you do in Brian Kopp's guide. This guide also is a lot faster and requires less grinding (which is never fun for a long period of time). That, along with the fact that this guide was created by a professional gamer (and you can really tell) is why iDemise is #2 in my book. " "Want to find the quickest way to move up the levels in World of Warcraft (WOW). wow gold The good news is, there are plenty of free tips out there as well as many affordable well written guides. The not so good news is, it can be tough to decide which powerleveling guide to choose from. On one side, you may have a popular guide that's been purchased and used by many people, while on the other side, you have another a newer Warcraft leveling guide that makes more and better claims of success. So which one should you choose. wow gold A good leveling guide will give you specific details about the items you need to collect, their purpose, how to use them correctly, what items to sell and which ones to sell, the important quests to take, and so on. By using a good power leveling guide, you should be able to progress pretty quickly and smoothly as promised. On the hand, a poorly written guide tends to give brief information about each level, too general about what to do and how to follow, often leaving you wondering what to do next.

It may also omit important items you need to collect and significant events to follow. buy wow gold It can be very frustrating at times when you might be better off figuring out all these stuffs yourself! At the end of the day, you want to find a good guide that will help achieve your goals quickly. If you follow the instructions closely, you should attain the results as promised by these guides. Just do remember that most of them were written for specific races and classes. wow gold You need to adjust the steps and strategy according to the race and class that you are playing. Using a good leveling guide will really help to reduce your learning curve and make the game more fun and enjoyable. It helps to solve the major confusions you encounter along the way, so that you have more time playing the game rather than searching for answers and clues all the time. Following are 3 of the top World of Warcraft power leveling guides we have come across: This useful guide shows you how to move from Level 1 to 70 in no time at all. mp3 players It is very well laid out and easy to follow. There are also links to other related sources. In includes numbered maps for each section which are easy to follow. wow gold You will learn exactly what to wear, what to do, what to buy, every step of the way. This is probably THE most popular guide over all the others. You can really learn the quickest way to get to level 70 with this power leveling guide. " .