Please clear your blacklist!

[Rannie]

/snip

do you visit sites with ads? You know even the best sites can be hacked and or if there are ads in them those ads can contain virus' key loggers and anything malicious to them. Also with the people going on about Phishing emails... seriously if it's asking you to sign in or asking you for your password you AUTOMATICALLY know it's a phishing email. Remember and square enix has said this multiple times. They will NEVER send any email asking you for your password and I can spot a phishing email a mile away. (they're just as bad as the lottery emails or the ones about the relative in Nigeria dying though those are hilarious to read most of the time due to terrible grammar)

[Rydin]

I'm currently lodestoning people with normal names and if there account seems somewhat decent then I'll unblacklist it.

Sounds like a lot of work

[texhnolyze]

are you sure you can get your account back after being hacked?
i don't have a long blacklist (hence i'm on a JP server), but i realize that some of them have disappeared
i remember that i have at least 5 or 6 on my blacklist, but yesterday i only saw 2 left
did SE delete them or something?

[Diavolo]

Um...nope.

[Ryuko]

I never blacklist anyone for the exact reason OP mentioned. I did, however, get about ten tells over the course of today from someone who seemed to have a normal name. I was tempted to blacklist this person, but honestly more surprised that they weren't reported/suspended over the course of a very long day. It's pretty sad that the RMT spam is so rampant in this game... I mean, it exists in every MMO but I thought it would die down a little bit with time. I guess all the 'hacked' people are going to have to start grabbing security tokens (or smartphone apps) to put this to an end. I've heard of a few RARE cases where people with one-time security passwords are getting hacked, but it's far less frequent than when you have no token at all...

And by the way, to the people claiming it's ridiculous that you are getting hacked... There are scripts people used to 'crack' passwords. My WoW account was once hacked over two years after the last time I logged in. To make things even more interesting, I did not share my e-mail/login/password on that account with any other account I have. How a hacker got my password TWO YEARS after the last time I played (which was on a DIFFERENT computer entirely) is beyond me. It happens, though. So don't be so quick to judge.

[Calyanare]

All you people saying "I'll clear my blacklist when it says <Deleted>" are missing the point. People who recover their accounts after they've been compromised will never show up as Deleted, because they don't get deleted. They got their character back.

[Rhysati]

Stuff.

Totally false. While it CAN mean that someone is lucky...it absolutely can mean that someone is too smart to have it happen.

Don't blind people by telling them that there is no way to protect themselves. There absolutely is, and if you do everything right, no trojan/keylogger will ever make it into your computer. And no fake login will make it into your browser.

Heck, if you really wanted to go extreme you could even thwart keyloggers(assuming you let them make it into your computer) by having a word doc with your username and password in it that you copy and paste. A keylogger would be rendered useless.

In the end, computer safety IS within your hands. Nobody can do anything to your computer without you letting them.

[Calyanare]

In the end, computer safety IS within your hands. Nobody can do anything to your computer without you letting them.

Yeah, but you can't do anything about it when some other site is compromised and they get your info from that... Well, except never using the same username and password for any two logins, besides all of the stuff you mentioned, because if some site is compromised they probably have enough info to phish you more effectively, or possibly social engineer their way into your account.

[Cocytus]

security token... Even if they have my account name and password won't mean a damn thing. I suggest if you've been hacked already you look into getting one.

[Sintram]

Why would I remove someone who was hacked from a blacklist?

There is a chance that such a hacked person was buying gold or power leveling.

Then if I do not have them on ignore, I might sell them something, and then when square enix investigates them, they will see the transaction, and ban my account.