I don’t know Kimi, but she/he may just want to remain a mysterious benefactor.
The hearthstone, like most other “negative” cooldowns, continues to count down when you log off. If you log off for an hour, you may use it immediately upon logging back in.
Sorry to continue this hijack.
NoScript merely disables JavaScript. Any exploit that doesn’t require scripting is still a problem. Here’s one from a couple of weeks ago that merely requires the Firefox user to display an XML file. Here’s another one that targets Firefox interface elements. There have been holes in Flash and PDF, as well. (There are hundreds more; these two were found on the first page of a simple Google search.)
Firefox is a great browser, and my default on both Windows and Linux (I’m using it to write this post). But, it has serious flaws, not the least of which are horrendous memory leaks and stability issues. Some users don’t want to cope with that.
This isn’t true. On Windows XP at least, I can think of several ways to sneak in a keylogger without having Administrator access. A user-mode program can modify too many critical files on an XP system to be kept out.
Power-leveling services may or may not communicate with gold farmers, I don’t know. But it’s not just power-levelers that get their asses handed to them by hackers.
I’m not involved as much with the technical side of this, so you’ll have to take what I’m saying as it’s been explained to me. It’s possible for malicious scripts on websites to infect computers if your security is not good enough, but this is not necessarily how most people are infected. Most infections do occur through the use of add-ons for the game, generally through executable installers. Usually the developer of the add-on has no idea about this and getting the add-on directly from the developer MIGHT be relatively safe. The biggest problems come in with executable add-ons and software like the Curse updater that automatically updates your add-ons when new versions come out.
As far as getting someone’s account just through knowing their email address? A huge number of people use the same username for everything. If my email was (it wasn’t, but let’s pretend) littleplasticninja@yahoo.com, it would be reasonable to guess that my account name might be littleplasticninja or a variant thereof. Lots of people use the same password for everything as well and never change it, though frequency of password changes becomes moot when a keylogger is lurking on your computer and the problems just increase from there. Most World of Warcraft-specific keyloggers are not so interested in your email password, since kicking you out of your account and getting all your stuff is a process that only takes a few minutes. Unless you happen to be online at the time, realize what’s going on, and kick them back out before they can cause damage, they’ve already emptied your pockets and your guildbank before you know anything is wrong.
And then there’s the scam emails, the guild websites that get hacked, the fake GMs, the people who steal accounts to gold farm on them with Glider and get the account banned… no, enriching gold sellers, when you know how they get the money, is not cool. The fact is, of course, most people don’t know – they are just like our wonderful Quasi and see that someone is willing to help them out through a rough patch for a negligible amount of cash.
My advice: be careful about your add-ons, call Blizzard if you see a suspicious email asking for account info (hint: if it’s asking for your password and your birthdate, it’s a scam), and get an authenticator when they’re back in stock. And if your password suddenly changes and you didn’t do it, take it seriously immediately.
I drive in the rain pretty often without crashing my car.
Then again, I’m a fairly safe driver, I keep an eye on the road, and I keep my brakes and tires in good order. I drive a car that gets good safety reviews.
Some people’s computers are the security equivalent of a lawn mower engine on a set of Tinkertoy wheels, is all. 
wanders into the thread spitting and cussing
Summon Charger is level 61! I about killed myself getting to 60 and just blew all my gold on the journeyman riding for me and my GF! Argh!
wanders out cursing paladin trainers
Thanks, Wonderlust and Palooka (do you chew the gum? ;))
Kimi is my guardian angel, and I appreciate so much what y’all and she have done for me!
Wonderlust, I still remember when we both died together! You were too cool to move!
Thank you so much for your help that day!
I am totally “Out-Awesomed”
Good Battle-Luck to both of you!
Q
You still have to learn Journeyman Riding before you can learn Summon Charger, so you didn’t waste your money. OTOH, don’t bother with the get-your-Charger quest the guy in the Cathedral will want to give you. You don’t need that.
Oh, I’m aware. I had just gotten bad information that I could get the Charger at level 60, and I pushed myself last night to get it. So I was just a touch disappointed when I couldn’t. 
I just did “Troll Patrol” in under 20 minutes! Whoo-hoo! 500 rep bonus! Woot!
Yeah, last post from me on this hijack.
The first hole you cite is blocked by NoScript. A website trying to exploit Firefox that way will simply cause it to crash if NoScript is on, instead of execute code. NoScript blocks Firefox plug-ins that execute code, which means that an exploit that depends on arbitrary code execution will be stopped if it depends on any of them. And all of them do, as far as I know.
The second exploit only allows known files to be read. The NoScript author claims it blocks this exploit, although that’s disputed. In any case, no execution means no keylogger.
Firefox is not perfect, but it is the most secure browser. Even if someone prefers something else as their primary browser, it really should be used when going to questionable websites.
I haven’t seen any problems with malicious executables on XP, but I’m careful what I run. And my gaming PC is Vista, so no worries there on lax security.
Oh, you can, you just have to do the (long, expensive) quest. 
As of patch 3.0.8, the Ruby Shades are permanently out of stock. From 2000g to 5c to collector’s items - such is the world of fashion.
I’m going to give you some advice here, regarding the WoW forums.
Most of the people there are full of shit. They are just looking for excuses to tell someone else he’s a piece of shit. They get their jollies that way.
For example, I got “into it” once with one of these assclowns. He was ragging on people, giving out bad information, talking trash. I “took issue” with it, and came under his scrutiny. When all is said and done, I had more top level toons (by a LOT), had a lot more purple epics spread out among those toons, more battleground kills, had him beat every way there is. So, seeing this, and having it shoved in his face, his only reply was that I don’t have a life.
That’s the thing, and it’s a running joke. If you are not doing was much or as well as I am, you are a no talent nobb scrub. If you have me beat in any way at all, you are a no life loser who lives in your mom’s basement.
You will know where your are strong or weak. You will know what gear you need. It’s simple. If you are dying too often, or take too much of a beating every fight, something needs tuning. If you are coasting through and it feels easy, everything is right. You don’t want to have the worst of everything, but you don’t have to have the absolute best in every slot either.
And most people in the WoW forums are either dirt stupid of full of shit.
Wow, that’s amazing. Now I know why someone offered a huge sum to buy the ones off of my bank alt. I wonder why they took them away? If they didn’t like the farmage they could have made them more available from other vendors.
Dang it. I think I had one of those but vendored it when cleaning out my bank. I’ll have to check, maybe I left it in.
If you ask very, very nicely (and very infrequently) a GM can sometimes get your mistakenly vendored items returned.
Okay, can somebody explain what the inside joke is here (if there indeed is one)?
I’m talking to a Broken in Telaar, Nagrand, named Warden Moi’bff Jill. He says, “I used to be known as Iolol until a secret vote was passed around town that resulted in me having to change my name. It was either that or go the way of Corki. You would have done the same. What do you think of my new name? Huge improvement, right?”
I don’t get it.
Iolol = LOLOL
Corki = …I got nothin’. The only pop-culture Corky I’m aware of is from Life Goes On, but that’s totally old-school.
Corki is another NPC in Nagrand. He’s the son of the leader of the Kurenai(or whoever that is in Telaar) and he’s a total idiot. He goes off on stupid adventures and you have to keep saving his ass. Not sure how that relates to the joke.
Well, his name was Warden Iolol when TBC launched. I stopped playing after a few months, so I missed the name change. Apparently he got his new name in patch 2.3. I’m not really sure what secret vote he’s referring to.
His new name is a reference to a Cingular ad. (“Who are you texting?” “My BFF, Jill.”) I’m not really sure why they changed “my” to “moi”, the latter being French for “me”.
If you don’t already know who Corki is, you will once you finish more of the quests in Nagrand. He gets shipped off to live with the Night Elves in Blade’s Edge Mountains at the end of his questline.