Digital plague hits online game World of Warcraft

Digital plague hits online game World of Warcraft
Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2005-09-27

A digital virus spread by terrorists left bodies on the streets and cities quarantined by the government.

Digital plague hits online game World of Warcraft 2005-09-28
Anonymous (2 replies)

Rob,

None of the news articles that I've found (other than yours) mention Blizzard confirming the event. The patch notes don't mention any specific fixes. Can you give us any info from the spokesperson, or just a followup confirming Blizzard has acknolwedged it, and that it isn't a hoax, as some ...

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Re: Digital plague hits online game World of Warcraft 2005-10-03
Rob Lemos

Blizzard confirmed that it was a bug, which was corrected through a hotfix during the week of Sept. 19. They would not comment beyond that aside from saying that there was some examples of player creativity.

Other sources confirmed details of the issue and what caused it.

-R...

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Re: Digital plague hits online game World of Warcraft 2006-10-24
Anonymous

The virus did infact occur and it lasted about a week, as a 60 priest in orgrimmar i found it amusing watching all those people who could not heal themselves, die. Especially the lower level characters....

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Digital plague hits online game World of Warcraft 2005-09-29
Alexey Vesnin

:) Just thing before you do something, Blizzard! :)

Don't look roughly

At that creature

It's not a bug

It's nature feature!

:)...

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Digital plague hits online game World of Warcraft 2005-10-15
Anonymous (1 replies)

My friend was over the other day, and I showed him http://www.exploitsrus.com/wow.html It is a site with cheats, bugs, dupes, etc for world of warcraft. He told me it was against the rules for wow to do this. Is this true? I am used to cheating on video games for my whole life, so I was sort of shoc...

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Re: Digital plague hits online game World of Warcraft 2006-08-06
Anonymous

dude cheating is always against the rules. its only bad 2 do it when ur playing against other human players cuz it ruins their fun when some asshole uses a trainer or whatever to make up for their lack of skill. so yes it is wrong but only when it affects somone else besides u...

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Nothing new under the sun 2005-10-16
Ketil (1 replies)

I remember playing MUD in - oh, 1993 or so, when a creative soul invented a "cold virus". This would make characters sneeze, and - you guessed it - infect other characters the affected character encountered.

-k...

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Re: Nothing new under the sun 2005-10-18
Anonymous

Yes, I remember a (german) MUD, Xyllomer, that was plagued some time with the FLU :-)

I liked it, since it was only lethal if you run into a nightshade :-)

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Digital plague hits online game World of Warcraft 2007-05-08
Anonymous (1 replies)

DuDe WOW (world of warcraft) frekin roks so get over all these bug things this game is awsome:-)...

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Re: Digital plague hits online game World of Warcraft 2007-05-30
Crusnik's Minion (1 replies)

This in game virus just goes to show how complex this game is. No doubt a true player of this game would embrace this "kink". I wish they would launch it again. A smart player could use this "virus" to their benefit. Launching catastrophic attacks on majorly populated WoW cities is nothing new. Warl...

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Re: Re: Digital plague hits online game World of Warcraft 2007-10-06
Anonymous

meh they nerfed the damage of the enslaved demon /shrug...

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Digital plague hits online game World of Warcraft 2008-04-14
Anonymous

I'm a former WoWer, inactive for a few months.

Blizzard coders are total retards, this is the first thing anyone who has been playing games longer then 3 days would do, give the dam virus to the whole server. Not just griefers, but anyone who needs food or water or whatever would goto a town and ...

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