A few weeks ago, Ole Schreiner, Director of Funcom Customer Service, released this warning about a third party tool that contains a trojan. I thought it might be a good idea to post it even though it isn't 'new' news since the program is probably still floating around out there. Here is the announcement... It has come to our attention that there is a small program being distributed within the player community called AOtradev250.exe or a version name thereof. AOtradev250.exe is classed as a Trojan Horse, a virus that can be used to search your computer for username and passwords. Funcom Customer Service does not under any circumstances support any third party tools to be run with Anarchy Online. You as users of the Internet should always be extremely careful downloading any programs unless you are absolutely certain the distributor can be trusted. This incident shows that a Trojan Horse can be hidden in what is seemingly a "cool tool". It has come to our attention that some of our players have used this program, letting a "hacker" get access to their player account and abused it. This is very unfortunate but unfortunately something Funcom can not take responsibility for. Funcom policy is very simple. We strongly advice not to use any 3rd party tools and we are not responsible for any consequences, or liable for any issues that may occur from running any 3rd party applications. We will ban all accounts where username and passwords have come to other persons than the account-owners attention, but will not actively search for these accounts. We take full responsibility of our own player database, but do not take responsibility over a player's computer. Included here are two links that explain more about the program. http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/backdoor.netdevil.html http://www3.ca.com/Virus/Virus.asp?ID=10948 "Read last article we had on the subject":/content/news/articles/3442L Regards, Ole Schreiner Director of Customer Service