http://www.itworld.com/taxonomy/term/399/all xx http://www.itworld.com/personal-tech/63028/microsoft-online-gamers-still-top-malware-target Microsoft removed nearly 1 million copies of an online game password stealer called Taterf in the first half of February. http://www.itworld.com/personal-tech/63028/microsoft-online-gamers-still-top-malware-target#comments Personal tech Tech & society News Microsoft online games Sat, 21 Feb 2009 10:13:54 -0500 ITworld staff 63028 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/personal-tech/54634/gold-farming-employes-500000-people-worldwide Richard Heeks, the head of the development informatics group at the UK's University of Manchester, estimates that nearly half a million people earn money as "gold farmers" -- players who seek out gold or experience points in online multiplayer games, then sell their loot to other players with less time on their hands. http://www.itworld.com/personal-tech/54634/gold-farming-employes-500000-people-worldwide#comments Personal tech Feature online games Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:51:17 -0400 abennett 54634 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/internet/54536/scrabulous-removed-facebook-again Scrabulous, the controversial third-party Facebook app, has once again been removed from the social networking site. http://www.itworld.com/internet/54536/scrabulous-removed-facebook-again#comments Internet Legal Personal tech News Facebook online games Scrabulous Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:38:16 -0400 ITworld staff 54536 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/news/53998/scrabulous-returns-facebook After being removed from Facebook following a legal wrangle with Scrabble's makers Hasbro, the third-party app Scrabulous has returned to the social networking site. http://www.itworld.com/news/53998/scrabulous-returns-facebook#comments Internet News Facebook online games Scrabulous Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:07:02 -0400 ITworld staff 53998 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/news/53245/microsoft-security-fix-clobbers-2-million-password-stealers Microsoft's Malicious Software Removal Tool -- a program that detects and removes viruses and other bad programs from Windows machines -- removed game password-stealing software from more than 2 million PCs in the first week after it was updated to detect these programs on June 10. http://www.itworld.com/news/53245/microsoft-security-fix-clobbers-2-million-password-stealers#comments Security News malware online games password stealers Fri, 20 Jun 2008 19:34:51 -0400 abennett 53245 at http://www.itworld.com