Maxou
2008-03-27, 02:02
Dear all,
I am a MMORPG player, and 10 days ago, my account on a famous Multiplayer Game was stolen : I was at work and a friend of mine saw me connected in the game, back at home, I tried to connect, but my pass was invalid. I advised the company owner of the game and they closed temporarly my account. Now after 10 days of inquiry they sent me an e-mail with details of reasons why my account was stolen, and its specified "key logger". So they advised me to change all my passes of everything I have (mailbox pass, Internet provider pass etc), and make a scan of my PC with Spybot and few online scanner (like Avast or symantec or kapersky).
In fact the next day my account was stolen, I did a full scan with Spybot, a scan with my avast anti-virus, and a scan with symantec online scan, and nothing was detected... After that, I re-formated the HD of my pc, but before that, I made a back up of the folder where the game was installed (I mean all patches necessary to make the game work, if you don't back up that, there's 8 hours of download after a fresh install of the game), and I re-installed win XP etc... As I am paranoiac now, I re-scanned this folder where the game was with Avast/spybot/etc and no problem.
Now my question is : is it possible that this keyloger virus/spyware persist, and if yes, how to detect it ? I am doing almost every day a spybot scan.
Also, as my account pass was changed by the thieves, is that mean that they have also my internet provider mail box pass ? As to change the pass, it is necessary to tape the answer to a secret question (then they send the new pass on my mailbox...), I am a bit scarred infact maybe they have all my passes and login of everything I own ...
If anyone have any comments or advide about that, many thanks in advance, it will be very helpful.
I am a MMORPG player, and 10 days ago, my account on a famous Multiplayer Game was stolen : I was at work and a friend of mine saw me connected in the game, back at home, I tried to connect, but my pass was invalid. I advised the company owner of the game and they closed temporarly my account. Now after 10 days of inquiry they sent me an e-mail with details of reasons why my account was stolen, and its specified "key logger". So they advised me to change all my passes of everything I have (mailbox pass, Internet provider pass etc), and make a scan of my PC with Spybot and few online scanner (like Avast or symantec or kapersky).
In fact the next day my account was stolen, I did a full scan with Spybot, a scan with my avast anti-virus, and a scan with symantec online scan, and nothing was detected... After that, I re-formated the HD of my pc, but before that, I made a back up of the folder where the game was installed (I mean all patches necessary to make the game work, if you don't back up that, there's 8 hours of download after a fresh install of the game), and I re-installed win XP etc... As I am paranoiac now, I re-scanned this folder where the game was with Avast/spybot/etc and no problem.
Now my question is : is it possible that this keyloger virus/spyware persist, and if yes, how to detect it ? I am doing almost every day a spybot scan.
Also, as my account pass was changed by the thieves, is that mean that they have also my internet provider mail box pass ? As to change the pass, it is necessary to tape the answer to a secret question (then they send the new pass on my mailbox...), I am a bit scarred infact maybe they have all my passes and login of everything I own ...
If anyone have any comments or advide about that, many thanks in advance, it will be very helpful.