The Trojans are coming for the Horde! And the Alliance, too.

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9-13-2007 @ 7:04AM

Makavelli said...

Here is the article in question: http://www.viruslist.com/en/analysis?pubid=204791963

Nowhere does it say what the proportion of trojans to online games to non-online games is. I think quotes have obviously been misinterpreted:

"Today the most popular MMORPG targets are Lineage 2 (more than 40% of all Trojans for online games target Lineage 2), World of Warcraft (20%)"

That's saying 20% of trojans targetting online games are targetting WoW, not that 20% of all trojans are targetting WoW.

"In 2006, the monthly number of Trojans for Lineage 2 and World of Warcraft rocketed and at year-end accounted for 70% of all malicious programs targeting online games."

Again, this is in relation to online games, not every trojan around.

I'm not denying that trojans targetting WoW (and other games) is a huge problem, but a lot of what's said in the article is incorrect.

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