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EVE Online trojan warning

by James Egan Sep 27th 2008 at 10:00AM

Filed under: Sci-fi, EVE Online, Exploits, Game mechanics, News items

CCP Games issued a warning today, regarding a trojan found in a macro for EVE Online. CCP Wrangler said that the macro is being offered by 'Gold Harvest Macro Solutions' and ostensibly allows a player to automate their skill-training with a queue, eliminating the need to periodically log in and change skills. CCP became aware of it and put it through testing; here's a shocker -- the shady software contains a trojan. Please contain your surprise.

CCP Wrangler's full announcement (login required): "A number of players have recently received an advertisement for a skill training macro, this macro is sent by Gold Harvest Macro Solutions who claims that the macro will let you create a skill training plan and have your character automatically train your skills. This macro has been tested and it contains a Trojan, so make sure you do not download any software from these people. If you downloaded the program, make sure that you run a complete scan of your system and then change all of your passwords!"

Not that anyone who uses programs like this doesn't really understand they're breaking the accepted rules of the game, but pretty much using any 3rd-party automation with the EVE client is a bad move.

Tags: ccp, ccp-games, ccp-wrangler, end-user-license-agreement, eula, eve, eve-online, exploits, macro, skill-queue, skill-training, skills, terms-of-service, tos, trojan

Did you give the gift of a hacked account this Christmas?

by Tateru Nino Feb 17th 2008 at 12:30AM

Filed under: Bugs, Exploits, News items

Do you even know? Many digital photo frames sold at Best Buy, Target, Costco and Sam's Club have a particularly insidious trojan embedded in them - one designed to thieve your account information for a variety of online games.

One of the primo geek gifts of 2007, variations of these devices were bundled with darn near everything gadgety during the holidays. Some percentage of these contain a professionally written and very stealthy little gremlin that Computer Associates has dubbed Mocmex that is apparently capable of robustly concealing itself from many detection engines. This isn't an amateur-night special, by all reports. This is professional nastiness, with multiple variants.

Tags: best-buy, breaking, computer-associates, costco, insignia, maxtor, mocmex, sams-club, sans, seagate, target, trojan, uniek, virus

Virus warning, HiPiHi may contain trojan [UPDATED]

by Tateru Nino Dec 19th 2007 at 1:30AM

Filed under: Exploits, New titles, News items, HiPiHi

Users of the HiPiHi virtual world are reporting that the application uninstaller for the virtual world client may be infected with a malicious trojan, identified as BackDoor.Bifrose.YM aka BDS/Bifrose.Gen.

It is not presently confirmed as to whether this is a genuine threat or a false-positive, but you need to be cautious. Not all virus scanners are reporting this - which says little about whether the threat is genuine or not.

Update: Wikipedia suggests that there is usually a trojan embedded in the uninstaller.

[Thanks to Massively reader ZATZAi for the heads-up, and the image]

Tags: breaking, hipihi, trojan, virus, zatzai