Switching Systems Question

[Teraniku]

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.

[Arcon]

Wife plays with me, she plays on the PC. I'm not into spending $500+ for a pc/laptop when i can get the xbox for $125.

You can get a PC that runs FFXI for that. For $500 you could get a PC that runs pretty much every current game.

Do you really want to download entire expansions through SE's update servers? Do you realize how many gajillion hours that would take?

4~5, do it over night or at work or watch a few episodes of your favorite show.

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.

Or don't do any of it and use a token, you can't be hacked. And your operating system, virus scanner, firewall and spyware protection keep themselves up to date with very little user input (only the operating system may require a restart every now and then), and many of these things can be combined in one. You don't need to run any scans, that can also be done automatically, and are by default. What is a "more secure web browser"? And how else can you be hacked? You have absolutely no clue what you're talking about. And how the hell do you make someone else an easier target?

[Teraniku]

You can get a PC that runs FFXI for that. For $500 you could get a PC that runs pretty much every current game.



4~5, do it over night or at work or watch a few episodes of your favorite show.



Or don't do any of it and use a token, you can't be hacked. And your operating system, virus scanner, firewall and spyware protection keep themselves up to date with very little user input (only the operating system may require a restart every now and then), and many of these things can be combined in one. You don't need to run any scans, that can also be done automatically, and are by default. What is a "more secure web browser"? And how else can you be hacked? You have absolutely no clue what you're talking about. And how the hell do you make someone else an easier target?

A more secure web browser that can block flash and silverlight, and only load what you want it to, can block Scripts from running on your PC etc. (Which you can do with Firefox) and tell that to the WoW players who got their accounts hacked even though they used tokens....

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/5149182968

But then again I have no clue what I'm talking about.

[Arcon]

A more secure web browser that can block flash and silverlight, and only load what you want it to, can block Scripts from running on your PC etc.

So you mean, like, every browser released in the last decade? Although none of that is necessary, there are things outside of your browser you can do to prevent that (customized HOSTS file), and that's only needed in the first place if you go to dubious websites or follow the links fake GMs send you in the game. And if you do that, nothing will protect you, not on a console or PC.

and tell that to the WoW players who got their accounts hacked even though they used tokens....

There are no such players.

But then again I have no clue what I'm talking about.

Precisely, so stop posting already.