Microsoft warns users of worm that targets MMO players
by Seraphina Brennan 
Nov 4th 2009 at 12:30PM
Filed under: World of Warcraft, Fantasy, Culture, News items
Remember how we always tell you to remain vigilant against malicious programs that can compromise your MMO account's security? Well, it seems we now have more reason to remain vigilant.Microsoft's latest security intelligence report covers the resurgence of worm type viruses and specifically mentions one that targets MMO players -- Taterf. As a worm, Taterf attempts to divine the user's account name and password through keystroke logging, reading the active memory, and even injecting itself into the game client. Either way, by the end of it, you end up naked and goldless. Hrm, we wonder if Taterf has been masquerading itself as our last girlfriend.
Taterf mostly enjoys the Asian games, like ZT Online, Lineage, and the Legend of Mir, but don't think you're out of the clear. World of Warcraft and Steam also rank high on Taterf's target list.
Taterf spreads through removable media connections, such as USB drives. The virus copies itself to the drive once the drive is connected to an infected computer, and it then creates an autorun.inf file that executes the virus the second another computer even looks at the drive's directory. So, if you want to protect yourself against Taterf, watch those removable connections.... if you know what we're saying.
[Via The MMO Gamer]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Archipelagos said on 1:06PM 11-04-2009
The innuendo in this article made me laugh. Thanks for the smile.
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DuceWild said on 1:49PM 11-04-2009
Yes....I know what you are saying.
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Dude said on 2:17PM 11-04-2009
Always use protection.
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Jay said on 5:00PM 11-04-2009
Any relation to Tateru?
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Graill said on 5:01PM 11-04-2009
"Our last girlfriend"?.............paging Dr. Freud.......paging Dr. Frued.......oops, pagng Mr. Seinfeld......
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Bedeh said on 3:38PM 12-04-2009
this could be what got me last week, got that veterans 7 day free thing and on the 3rd day something put an authenicator on my account, got it off but then had an hourly battle for my password. Decided it wasnt worth it and canceled the 7day pass
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