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Article #340999Re: Possible solution to losing items to account hackers
From: John Gordon
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 21:30
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 21:30
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In <ULrkp.47$vT3.8@newsfe06.iad> Polarhound <polar...@comcast.net> writes:
> If they can get software onto your system to steal your Rift account,
> adding an email skimmer/logger is no large feat.
I disagree. All Rift clients are the same, so you only need one piece
of malware to skim any Rift password. But there are hundreds of email
clients -- it would be difficult to have malware which recognizes all
of them.
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