Ok few thoughts. First as was said you cannot be logged in on two computers silmultaneously. You will get kicked.
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However, I'm wondering... Is a person who uses the auto-login option safe from keyloggers? I'm assuming they are.
I too would like confirmation of this. I haave heard that even auto login feature cannot protect you because a password is still relayed to the server every time you log in, it is simply stored somewhere and exectuted automatically. But I'm not a computer geek in that regards so I don't know what they meant. If someone could answer this I'd be thankful.
Third. I got the tell on Unicorn too. We all did. I guess RMT are hurting so badly they have to resort to drastic measures. On unicorn I forget the name of the guy but the message was like
"I'm quitting the game here is a link to my somethin or other: ~enjoy!!!
followed by said link. I was like... oooook that's not obvious or anything and promptly forgot about it entirely. That sucks you got your account stolen. I can only wonder how many people fell victim and what is going to happen. Its very sad that people will backstab so badly to get something.
On S-E: Their policy is if you don't know the current credit card info and password on the account your boned. I do NOT agree with this. Even if you know the previous info they require the current info.... well *** how am I supposed to know what the info is if I got hacked. If I did I'd just change it back myself. There have been instances where S-E reps have confirmed the card was the same for years and was reecently changed and still cannot offer assistance. This is my one and truly only grievance with S-E customer support, and its a huge one.
As such I take extreme precaution with my account information. I run spysweeper daily and I heed the advice to not click or download ANYTHING FFXI related from the internet. Especially if it's posted and says "we can help make your game better". People who use keyloggers 90% of the time present them in a manner that is hard to resist. They offer free services, or something that will otherwise make your game better by a lot with no cost. But it's almost always booby trapped. The saying "if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is" is always accurate. Someone in the tradeskill forms a few days ago posted a link to a crafting software designed for recording your crafting history, and admitted it had built in hacks to bypass the wait time between synths. I reported the post to the admins and it was removed. Seeing this I'm glad I did because I'm betting it too was part of this large scale attack.
I'm very sorry this happened to you. It sucks. I do hope you get your account back, and I wonder....... just how many people fell victim that day. I prray this has been a learning lesson for many, both affected and unaffected. That being, be careful.