04.05.2007 WORLD OF WARCRAFT CURSOR HACK

BBC is reporting on a World of Warcraft hack that's slowly rising in numbers online. Hackers were able to exploit a flaw in the cursor code, and accounts getting stolen started to become a popular complaint in late March. To make things worse, hackers started to infect certain sites with the exploit, causing World of Warcraft players browsing the net on Internet Explorer 6 and 7 to occasionally put themselves at risk when they least expected it. Upon further investigation, it seems like the vulnerability was actually in Microsoft's code, and that it was only a problem with people using animated cursors (morons and housewives).

Nevertheless, to help solve the problem, Microsoft released a patch for it on April 3rd, earlier than its usual round of annoying downloads. If you need the Microsoft update, you can download it here from Microsoft. Good luck trying to explain your absence in Azeroth to your guild, I suggest making up an excuse.