IE Hack to Gain GW Passwords?

I found a blog post on Yahoo! Tech about a security flaw in IE, which has been exploited to gain passwords in online games, such as Guild Wars.

http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/111811

While it's not surprising that there is a security flaw in Internet Explorer, (nor any Microsoft product), I'm wondering how this affects the Guild Wars community. Thoughts?

OH NO! My Runescape Password.

Guild Wars has it's own "IE". You play Guild Wars on the internet for sure. But it's the internet program that matters. WoW, Lord of the rings, Final Fantasy are unaffected as well.

Runescape and many other MMORPG's that you HAVE to play on IE are effected. Stealing passwords for items to sell to players /illegal.

could not find the text games in there tbh..
then again, who still uses IE these days?

this also applies to passwords you save for websites/ forums/ bank accounts. etc.

So if I was you, I would clear them

use firefox, problem solved.

i prefer safari myself, better looking imho.

saw this awhile ago.
my favorite part is where microsoft won't encourage people to switch just because of this "one" problem. rofl.

such a "small", insignificant problem, why would you need to fix it?

Sadly, IE still commands about 70% of market share.

Clicky.

I use firefox...too many hackers on IE. Too many hackers=scenarios like this one. Thank god my 5 stacks are still safe. You had me going with the thread title.

It doesn't matter which browser is your default, run your windows update or get the patch manually: http://www.microsoft.com/protect/com...00812_oob.mspx

always good to have any problems fixed regardless of whether or not they pose any immediate threat to you

From the article

Unless its to steal your NCsoft Master account, it doesn't affect GW users one bit, as you don't log in via IE.

go use Google Chrome lol jk but fire fox does fix all your problems
ok in seriousness who still uses ie?

The less sophisticated tend to use IE. Additionally, the lazy use it because it comes preinstalled.

One plug here for Opera. Good product, and unlike Firefox its market footprint is small enough that no one in their right mind would waste their time hacking it

Hey, somebody has to fill the botnet quota, right?

I guess that depends on the nature of the hack, (the details of which, I admit, I know nothing about). For example, if you browse a web site with IE, and it installs a keylogger on your system, can't it keylog anything you do, such as typing in your login and password for Guild Wars? (Or get your bank account info if you bank online, or....)

The linked BBC article specifically mentions gaining access to your computer via this exploit. But if the hack is limited to just games that you use a web browser to log into, then that hypothesis doesn't make sense.

It still seems to me that this could be a real reason for concern for GW players (that use IE...)

People still use Internet Explorer?

JFTR: http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=2304

If you use Internet Explorer, you both deserve to be hacked, and deserve to have all your GW stuff stolen.

All the cool people use Firefox, so i make shure i keep using IE.