Originally by: Akita T

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Originally by: Manu Hermanus

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if they get through the whole make account, pay for account, a captcha to log into the forums really wont stop it....

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Let's not forget "log into the game to create a character", because without a character created first, you can't post.

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Originally by: Akita T

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Originally by: Armoured C

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Originally by: Akita T

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Originally by: Manu Hermanus

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if they get through the whole make account, pay for account, a captcha to log into the forums really wont stop it....

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Let's not forget "log into the game to create a character", because without a character created first, you can't post.

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so if that is the case what you suggested is completely useless and a waste of time anyway ?
so not only are you moaning that they tried something the way you would of done it you would of still came to the same conclusion anyway. i see that no better.

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First off, they could hunt for the machines used in the creation of said characters and flag all other accounts with the same details.
And no, before you ask, I don't mean IP, I mean the other data CCP silently collects at login time.
Stuff like windows product hash ID and other such things.

Second, they could have simply word-filtered the APPROPRIATE words, in this case, ".jpg" and the SITE NAME used in that audrey whatchamacallit thingy (you know, the ACTUAL stuff they're supposed to try to keep us away from) plus ". e x e" (that's a dot in there as the first of 4 characters) if they want to do "prophylactic filetering" instead of "e x e" and "l e x e" (which both make no sense since they're part of many words in common use across this board, and what's the deal with the second one anwyay?).
They might have also pre-emptively blocked tinyurl, which they apparently didn't.

Third, I would have never used the fail-captcha they used.

And so on and so forth, as I already explained in the OP... right now, I was merely repeating and clarifying, with little extra info in this post that wasn't already in the OP.

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Originally by: voogru

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Originally by: Zed Jackelope

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CCP are the keyloggers

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CCP doesn't need no stink'n password to login to your internet spaceships account.

They probably just type in your username and hit the "log me in biatch" button.

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Originally by: Seluko

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Edited by: Seluko on 23/07/2009 23:13:57
I can see the initial logic of the catchpa, even if they did use a horrible one. But the increased word filter is just stupid. It is horribly easy to bypass the thing already.

executive, anyone?

Edit: My fail logic

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Originally by: Verx Interis

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Edited by: Verx Interis on 24/07/2009 00:13:47

Originally by: Akita T

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Edited by: Akita T on 23/07/2009 21:51:13

Originally by: Zed Idiot

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clicks on the keylogger. ISK seller gets Idiot's account info. All characters are stripped of assets and liquidated or moved to ISK sellers' accounts. Spammer character is created, and forums spammed until Idiot's account is banned; resulting in more possible accounts being phished.

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And then, they run out of complete morons that click on suspicious links while having unprotected computers/browsers with every bit of built-in security disabled

I mean, out of 11 mil potential idiots and many more constantly coming in, compared to less than 300k potential idiots with far less coming in, EVE actually does have a chance to run out of complete morons, while in WOW, not so easy

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Generally the idiots who click on the links are the ones with no browser security.. I'm sure just running a good browser with a proper antivirus will stop the keylogger from getting in anyway.

But there's always idiots in the world.

Edit: Also as someone else said, it send you to a fake video that says "You can't jack off to this because you need this random piece of software" and then you get keyloggered.

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