What’s ‘Hacking?’
As defined in the dictionary, hacking is “to use one’s skill in computer programming to gain unauthorized access to a file or network.” If someone gets your account password, and they might take all of your stuff on your character, or possibly even your character itself.
What Bad Things are out There?
There are several ways someone can get your password to your account. Most can also do some bad things.
| 1. Trojans, Trojan Horses - These are malicious programs pretending to be a regular program. They can destroy data and send info back to the owner, such as passwords. The main difference between them and computer viruses is that they do not replicate. 2. Viruses - Bad programs made by people to (usually) do bad things to computers. They can be disguised as games, pictures, or regular programs. When executed they could destroy information. 3. Key Loggers - these are programs much like Trojans, but usually they don’t destroy data. They keep track of every keystroke made, and then sends it back to the owner. 4. Worms - Worms are viruses that sit in the computer’s memory, duplicating themselves. They can be sent to other computers through an email program, or IRC (internet relay chat), destroying data. 5. Spyware, Adware - Usually these come from programs with bundled software, like file sharing utilities. Both will track what sites you visit and what you do on them. 6. Guessing Passwords - although unlikely, if you have an easy password, someone could guess it, or — automated scripts with common words dictionaries embedded can “break” your easy-to-figure password too! |
How Can A Person Get These?
With exception to #6, all the programs above can be gotten from a computer program. Sometimes they can be sent by email, a downloaded program, or a website. But, usually you will not find any of these things unless you’re looking for a cheat to the game, or doing other… bad things.
Instant Messengers
If someone asks you to be their friend, and then tries to send you a file, reject it. Especially files with a .exe, .cmd, .bat, or .scr extension. Even if they want to send you a picture of them self, I would advise not to accept it unless you absolutely trust the person.
How Not to Get Them?
There are lots of ways to be sure not to get any of the bad things mentioned earlier. Using your common sense is a good start!
| 1. Don’t download anything questionable, like character modifiers, add-on Tibia programs, or toolkits, unless its from a trusted fan site. Both tibia news and Tibia.de are run by official Tibia Game masters (Excessus and Ralgar respectively).
2. Never play Tibia from any computer than yours. 3. Never open an attachment from an email offering something in Tibia. It could be a dangerous program that I discussed above. 4. Remember that CIP will never send an attachment to you via email, and they will never have a click able link in an email. 5. More importantly, CIP will never send you an e-mail! Ignore any message that claims to be from them, even if it says it’s urgent, because it isn’t from CIP. Common subjects of these fake e-mails are: “Tibia Poll”, “Your Tibia Account”, “Your Tibia Membership”. 6. Make sure to have all updates for your Operating System (Windows, Mac OS, Linux, etc.) 7. Scan your computer for viruses using an anti virus program such as one of these: |
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