Quote Originally Posted by Alhanelem View Post
You can get key logged hacked etc anywhere. Even on the xbox (though it's harder). FFXI does not use xbox servers, therefore your traffic with the game is no more or less secured than it is for anyone on the PC. You're only kidding yourself if you think it's safer. Safe computing practices protect you from all the things you described better than the xbox or any server side security can. It's also kind of funny that you seem to place a higher value on the security of your gaming than of your work...

Also beware people playing on a PS3, as the hardware encryption keys for the system were supposedly leaked recently, making it much easier to hack on the PS3. The same thing could concieveably happen to the xbox, or any computing hardware you can imagine.

TL;DR: The safest way to game is to be smart, understand security threats and how to protect yourself from them, rather than relying on your machine to do it for you.

Do you really want to download entire expansions through SE's update servers? Do you realize how many gajillion hours that would take?
In a nutshell: keep your Operating System up to date, Keep your preferred Virus Scanner, Firewall, and Spyware protection with the latest updates and run Active scans at least once a week. Use a more secure Web Browser and while you can still be hacked, you make someone else an easier target.