How to Fix World of Warcraft Trojan Virus That's Bypassing Authenticators

Blizzard has warned its World of Warcraft users that a new Trojan virus has been created and has found a way to penetrate its authenticators, meaning accounts can be hacked even if you've taken the extra security steps offered by the game developer.

According to a post on the Blizzard forums, the Trojan acts in real time to steal people's account information and authenticator details as they're entered into the game to sign in. A follow-up post reveals that the Trojan is built into a fake, but still fully functional, version of the Curse Client. This can be downloaded from a fake version of the Curse website. The Trojan is tricking many people because it is showing up on major search engines when people go looking for the "curse client" online.

According to IGN, the easiest way to remove the Trojan from your account is simply to delete the fake Curse Client and then run scans from an updated Malwarebytes. In order to tell if your account has been infected at all is simply to create an MSInfo file and then look in the Startup Program section of that file for either "Disker" or "Disker64." If either of these is on your computer, it will reportedly look like THIS.

Despite the breach in security, Blizzard is reassuring its users that the authenticator is very rarely compromised and still remains the best way to protect your account information.

IGN notes that a few ways to ensure that your World of Warcraft account is as secure as possible is to ask the game to remember your account name in the hopes of reducing the amount of times a keylogger might be able to pick up on your sign-in information. In addition, you can use the Battle.Net Launcher that Blizzard released recently. This will log you into your games without you needing to enter any information.

Have you been the victim of this latest Trojan that's been making accounts on World of Warcraft vulnerable? Comment and share your experience with us below. After you make sure your account is secure that is.