Account security is very important to us. As we have recently seen a rise in the number of compromised World of Warcraft accounts, we recommend you to take a few moments to read these tips to help protect your privacy and ensure your security.

Verify that your email address in Account Management (http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/account) is current. You can see your address on the right side of the Account Management page and change it with the “Change Contact Info” button.

Make sure your operating system, web browser, and other software is up-to-date with the latest patches and security updates.

Scan your computer for viruses, Trojans, and key loggers.

After doing this, we highly recommend changing the password on the account to a brand-new, unique one, and making sure to keep this password private.

These simple steps can go a long way in maintaining account security. If you are seeking an additional layer of security, consider purchasing the optional Blizzard Authenticator, available at the online Blizzard Store (http://www.blizzard.com/store/details.xml?id=1100000182). For more security tips, please visit our World of Warcraft Account Security page (http://us.blizzard.com/support/article.xml?articleId=20572&rhtml=true?rhtml=y).

Funny how you guys/gals post this the smae day you put Adds on the forums..

Are you trying to tell us something?

Are we one day going to see a "Gold sellers" add here and need to worrie about our keys being taken? o and First!!

Make a new version of the authentication device with some kind of back light and i will be all over that, but being that i usually play in the dark.. having no back light just makes it too much of an inconvience

You wonder why? It probably has something to do with the high level of the number of dumbasses who actually copy and paste any random link they see in a thread. No, we don't need a "night time moderator." We need people to stop being stupid. And we all know that'll happen overnight...
IE7 is not the cause of the recent rise in the account security issue, i toyed around a little bit after i lost my account to try to figure out where it came from. I don't use IE at all, so rule that out. I just started playing again, and i decided to get my addons back on and what have you. so i only downloaded the curse client and the addons i would immediately use, questhelper, gatherer, and atlas. i go to open WoW, error. so i delete the addons, STILL error. so i'm like wtf? THEN i remove the curse client, go to open WoW and BAM, Trojan-GameThief.Win32.WOW.dch is on my computer. no less than 30 seconds later my info is changed. so i call out the curse client as being the culprit. the trojan dislodges when you uninstall and your virus protection isnt flagged, so its sits there. 

I had the exact same problem with Trojan-GameThief.Win32.WOW.dch a few months back. I don't really know how I got it, I don't use the Curse client, and I only had QuestHelper and AtlasLoot. It was scary as %#%# when I got an email from Blizzard stating that I had broke the ToA or EULA(can't remember, and I'm too damn lazy to open up that email),and that I was suspended for 72 hours pending account deletion.

I wrote back, got things straighened up(Thanks again Blizz :D), logged on, and saw a gold spamming character on 50 servers(account cap), and all my characters deleted save for my main, mysteriously. I got some GM help to get my characters and items back, and for safety, I bought an Authenticator. Haven't used addons since, either. Still, I never figured out where the trojan came from, and NO, there was no sex leg or gold buying involved, just to get that out of the way.

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