20% of all known Trojans aimed at WoW

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Tinie

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Yesterday, Kapersky Labs published a report that online games are increasingly becoming the primary target of fraudsters and criminals lured by the promise of "easy money" and an eager customer base for items on the black market.

According to the report, 40 per cent of all trojans are aimed at Lineage 2 with Blizzard's World of Warcraft being the second most popular target with 20 per cent of all known trojans aimed at extracting information from its players.

Source

http://www.worldofraids.com/#7244
 
I don't know about WoW, but, I cannot imagine it being worse than some of those free MMORPGS. Gold sellers in every town, bots in every field and no one does anything to enforce the rules. Given that bot clients come with a free key logger that's probably where the gold sellers get their money. Nice racket, you provide a bot to players, steal their gold when they get enough, and then sell it back to them. On one MMORPG they updated the client to rid it of the bots only to have them back within the week. On another I was actually online when the server got hacked, unless the GM felt like posting "ku ku <(^.^)> Kirby Power" (not exact wording but close) and immediately turning the server off...

I would have thought WoW would have been number one given it's larger player base. Lineage 2 must be easier to hack or something.
 
Lineage 2 is the Largest MMO in the world just an FYI!!

Wow is what 8.5 Mill? Lineage 2 is at 14 Million....

Why I knew this I don't know lol
 
cause ur a nerd Dredd :p
i wonder what GW is at. Maybe GW is safe! YAY GW!
 
Wow (pun intended) I just assumed because I barely knew Lineage 2 existed while I hear WoW mentioned everywhere. Thanks for the info.

...not trying to correct you, but, I got curious and googled it...

http://www.blizzard.com/press/070724.shtml 9 million as of July 24 2007 (that's worldwide and active)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_MMORPGs The wiki on Lineage 2 reports 1.3 million, but, I don't trust wiki's completely (What is up with Maplestory having 50 million players o_O ???). However NCsoft says Over "14 Million subscribers have played Lineage® II" http://www.plaync.com/us/games/l2/buy.html. I stumbled across this guy's site too. Look at the market share by MMORPG of WoW on it, Yeesh http://www.mmogchart.com/ . I think the numbers are different because one is current active subscribers and the other is total.
 
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Heh. Lineage. We bought it. Installed it. Patched it. Waited 4 days on the servers to come back up from maintenance. Canceled the account.
 
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