Buyer beware in the Auction House

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4-03-2008 @ 4:29AM

AlmtyBob said...

First off, auctioneer is completely safe.

Secondly, addons by themselves do not and CANNOT contain addons. Executable files that claim to be addon "installers" or "automatic updaters" CAN. As long as you're downloading your own addons that contain zipped up folders rather than executables you are 100% safe from malware (addons-wise).

You could get XSS attacks or other browser vulnerabilities on some sites that claim to have addons for download (auctioneer's site is NOT one of them). Firefox + noscript + curse/wowace/wowinterface = reasonably safe.

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