Para got hacked

I was joking calm down.

the one thing that confuses me is that i thought you had to comfirm an email change from the original email.

if this is so why didnt he refuse the email change and keep his account?

cus this 'hacker' had acces to his email, therefore confirming it himself

I did that with Sygate and it was 100% stealthed with a couple of tweaks.

That seems like your best bet. And then just follow all the tips in this thread like don't DL programs that seem suspicious, keep a secure password etc to keep it from happening again.

Well if worst comes to the worst and you can't get your account back I can give you some gold to get you started up again (you messaged me for some gold but I was busy at the time so I couldn't give you any) as well as let you in my teams to get your fame back up.

Awww too bad. btw do u go lan shops/cyber cafe to play GW??? if u do someone could have install a key logger into the computer. If u do play in Lan shops/cyber cafer heres my advice(becuz its works on me duing Diablo 2 days) make friends with the owner and the ppl works there(as for me they happen to be my school mates) if a hacker has install a keylogger in the computer(of cuz it has to be in a lan shop) he has to come back to the same computer to get those password due to the protection with the lan shop so theres no way u can get it by the internet. ok if u got acc hacked take note of the computer. Ask your friend to eye on that computer and call u once he spoted that hacker then u call all your friends(I'm talking about big groups at least 10-15) Pull him out of his seat give him a hell of a beating. Beat him up 1st ask question later. Force him to return your account and password(as for me I force him to speak out every account he hacked) if he lie that he duno anythhing about hacking your account by all means beat him up again. or u call the cops to arrest him but that hacker can lie his way out and if u have no proof the cops would let him go.

ok that is officially the stupidest thing i have ever heard! you expect to walk in to any business premises, drag a customer from his seat and beat the crap out of him? you will get arrrested you will get a little trip to the police station. all he has to say is he has no idea who you are or why you did it.

You Sir are an idiot.

First off Illegal. Secondly beating is a poor interrogation method. KUBARK protocol doesn't even recommend the threat of it unless absolutely necessary and even then only with certain personality types. A hacker is likely to have a superior/reticent personality type and therefore be more or less immune to interrogation by torture. He'll bear it or lie to get out of it. The best bet is to contact GW support I think they can do one recovery of your account provided you can provide them with proof that you are indeed the owner of the account. A picture of your CD with the key would work or just provide the key. Sorry I did some work during my time in service and I really hate people advocating beatings as an effective means of information retrieval.

its quite dificult that someone can hack the acount he has to acces email to
and by the way he recieve notice that the acount was log off since he was playing.

So i think he also mention e know what is goin on in early post.

lol beat up every person that sits in that chair. good idea! /end sarcasm

Sorry to say, im guessing you use some kind of guildwars bot or somthing and they key logged your password ... or one of your friends screwed you... hope this teaches you.

"give me your account, i swear to god i will kill ur whole family!!!"
"ok"

people say u can set ur account 2 auto log in how exactly is that done

Ok i had the samething happen to me, just report the incident to the A-Net ppl. Call them if you have to, they will investigate, then they will ask you to fax them a copy of your CD-Key insert in the CD-case, then they will reset your email and password....I couldn'tfigure out who stole my account though

ouch sry to hear that..

if your account pc is secure from prying eyes only.

right click desktop shortcut

click properties

go to target line which will end in .exe"

to that line add the following

space(a space not the word)-password=xxxxxxxx(your password

click apply

log in and type password and remember me on this pc

play and simply hit the shortcut in the future

So.. uh.. what's the best way to 'persuade' a hacker to cooperate?

i did exactly that and it accepted when i hit apply but it still goes 2 log in screen did i miss something

log in screen or character selection screen?

EDIT

it should look like this

.exe" -password=xxxxxxxxx

regular log in

2 things

if it looks exactly like my edit

manually log in and play for a moment then log out and be sure you have the little remember me box checked.

take a look at the target line to see if it is still there and absolutely correct.

i havent typed a pass in months so i know this works

It should be:

"C:\Program Files\Guild Wars\Gw.exe" -password=XXX

XXX = your password

But also, make sure your e-mail is set to "remembering it" on the Guild Wars login page.

ok ill check again in a moment oim in pre searing developing my new account.

thanks for your help

ummmm.............didnt i say add exactly what you just said to the existing target?

Actually physical discomfort is a very effective way to gain cooperation or information from an individual. It may not be the most time efficient though but everyone has a breaking point it is only a matter of time needed to get to that point. Just like everyone has their price, which of itself can be used to gain information.

To perhaps more clearly illustrate the shortcut line used for auto login. Under the Shortcut tab of the properties of the shortcut there is a Target field. That field will contain this line dependant on where Guild Wars was intalled to:
"C:\Program Files\Guild Wars\Gw.exe"

Simply add the switch 'password=<password>' to activate auto login so that it will look similar to:
"C:\Program Files\Guild Wars\Gw.exe" -password=letmein

Using that shortcut will result in logging in to the account using the specified password. This also depends on having the "Remember this e-mail address" ticked at the login screen and using the correct address that goes with the password placed in the shortcut.

I've played with keyloggers at work (I'm an IT guy) so I know how dangerous they can be. To the point that I pretty much don't download anything 3rd party unless it's posted at an official site.

Edit: Shoot had to leave my response half finished to take care of something and 20 minutes later everything I wanted to clarify / add had been said.

Social engineering and catering to the ego would be my tactic of choice. Hackers already think they are smarter than everyone else so play the dumb schmuck and occasionally slip in a comment about how awesome this or that is or how cool said person is. You stroke an ego enough and eventually they will spill their guts about just about anything. The most important aspect of any interrogation is establishing a dialogue with your interogatee. You can't get angry. You can't personalize anything. This tactic would not work right away. In fact you'd probably have to put up with several hours of snobby responses or lack of response at all. As long as you keep your cool though it doesn't give them the satisfaction of knowing they got to you. That is enough to bolster anyone's confidence. You don't even necessarily have to talk about the thing you want to know about right away. If you get a good dialogue going you can actually make them bring up the subject first if you are skillful enough in steering the conversation. Interrogation these days is all about psychology and mind games not torture and physical threats.

Nah that's just not true. You beat someone enough and they will tell you what you want to hear. They will tell you they wear ladie's underwear if it will get you to stop hitting them. Interrogation is about getting useful information. Torture also cultivates a sense of apathy which has to be avoided at all costs. If they resign themselves to their fate then what incentive do they have to cooperate? The closest an interrogator should ever come to torture is what they call "self inflicted pain". It's not really self inflicted pain but you never lay a hand on the person. A common example is making someone stand up for extended periods of time. Not so terrible eh? Try doing it for twelve hours, twenty four hours, 36 hours. It hurts bad. the whole time the interrogator will say things like." You know you are only doing this to yourself. If you would just cooperate we'd bring you a chair and let you sit down." This turns the interrogatee's stubborness into the torturer and not the interogator, thus allowing a dialogue to be maintained.You beat someone physically and you personalize the entire interrogation in their mind and they'll refuse to cooperate out of spite or if they do cooperate they will likely give out useless information or the quality of their information will be suspect and require more backchecking which in turn takes up more time.

EDIT: Apologies in advance for the off topic. Call it the knowledgeable's need to instruct.

this sucks bad for you para but i know who this guy is its the same guy who postedts on this form right( banishd ) lol he did it too me also and he does it by putting keyloggers on website wich shoud be bot farmers but in real they are keylogger i know his email its bani teh monk he think hes a hacker but he realy doesnt now jack you gonna get yourt acount back if you fax the copy of the cd-key .. if it is any comfort we played atrick to this bani 1 of our girlfriend did as if she was intrested in him and he put his webcam on she was telling him he shoud wear his hair like this or like that lol then she said we said hi and we waved at the webcam so funny guys is uber nerd :P well thing is i was lucky i have like 5 acounts so when he came online i knew and coud change others but i used 1 email at that time so he did have that and changed it but got it back afterwerds
soo i replied to a-net for you with this they where gonna investigate my case so i sent tyhem another link for your post also since its the same email
and bani gg

Bugger!
*runs off to change all my passwords*

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For the more extreme of us.

I hope that in a few years, this kind of technology becomes STANDARD on home PCs.

Hope you get it back Para

But it still works sometimes beating ppl up is the only way...

btw how would u feel if a hacker got away/stolen with your items that is worth 10k(real money) and his laughing at it.

lol thats funny if he does i might let him go and give them some items along for cooperating.(of coz that will never happen)

I hope by 'items' you are referring to real world items, like say "Plasma TV" or the like (and therefore by hacker you mean theif commiting B&E). Because no virtual in-game items of any kind from any game is worth $10,000 in real world cash. Althought this doesn't discount that there are likely some people out there with more money than brains and believes virtual items can be worth that much real cash...

I once had £3.1k worth of gold on an RPG character (runescape). and there were plenty of bigger fish in the sea than me. 10K in theory is definately possible, but for one actual item?

All I can say is req 7 15% always crystalline sword. Technically that sword is priceless in terms of GWs economy, no items could be traded for it, so it would take a real world amount of cash...people have spent more than $10k dollars on a computer game before...It's not impossible, it's insane, but not impossible ^_^.

I had a keylogger on my comp dunno how I got it but I found it through this program called taskmanager (not the default windows one) the Icon was a toaster, it was at a 99% Danger risk so I disabled and deleted it from the windows folder, hasnt been running since. I googled the exe filename to see what it was and I found a lot of info about it, all bundled up it was used to steal passwords and such "keylogger", Glad I deleted it, Hopefully I didnt give it enough time to get my stuff but I think im clear, Still able to log my account and never get kicked like that, ever!

Always use different PW's for every login.

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i dont recall this

and this one time
rabbits fell from the sky
and taught me spanish

I think this thread has gone on long enough. Closed.