Saturday, September 29, 2007

Runescape Announcement About Account Security

Jagex have announced to all runescape players to be on extra vigilance regarding a new worm that has been circulating around the internet. The worm affects players computers and is not obtained via the runescape.com website.

Jagex have made this announcement as one version of the worm, known as Bubbles, Ramex, Skipi or Pykspa may be targetted specifically to runescape players with the intention of stealing their runescape password. It is important to ensure that you have the most updated anti-virus definitions installed on your computer and to be extra careful when visiting links posted via things such as msn messenger or yahoo chat etc.

This is another step taken by Jagex to help make players aware of the threats to their account security as well as improving the ingame methods of combatting scams. As most people will be aware, Jagex recently nullified the unid herb scam by altering unidentified herbs to be renamed as grimy herbs. Players can no longer become a victim of the unid herb trade scam and can now get better value for their higher level 'grimy herbs'.

Overall, players should continue to use caution when visiting any links provided to them from unknown or untrusted sources. In addition, players should always have an up to date anti-virus programme to help them catch any potential malicious key loggers that are aimed specifically at runescape accounts.