Anti Hacking/Scamming Guide
1. Be sure to set your password recovery questions, and write them down a safe place.
2. Do NOT tell your password! Do NOT tell anyone your password recovery questions!
3. Make your password hard to guess - like "sk3wjdlm2764df" but it should be memorable.
4. Don't use your Runescape password anywhere else than runescape.com and Scar scripts. Some forums may pick up your password, and use it to log onto your RuneScape account!
5. Somone are making "secret" sites where you can be staff. They're fake.
Runescape "test servers". All newer releases of RuneScape will be announced on runescape.com.
6.Don't use unofficial Runescape programs or addons.
7.Watch out for fake emails - Runescape will never ask for your password.
8. Do NOT share your account. Many players loose their accounts because their FRIENDS steals it!
9. Avoid viruses, trojans, spywares etc.
10. Don't let people walk away with your stuff. If you are trading something, be sure to get what you want before you accept the trade.
11. Do not believe everything you're told - it's not always true.
12. Double-check in the second trade screen. Many people remove their items just before accepting.
13. Trade everything at the same time, some people just log out or run away before the trade is completed if you split the trade.
14. Watch out of people that are cutting gems for free, smithing for free etc. When someone is cutting a gem for free, the best way is to ask him to give you a cutted for your uncutted.
15. If the trade is too good to be true, it normally is.
16. People are often making new account to scam - if they get banned, they won't loose anything. Buying full rune, rare items etc from very low leveled people is risky.
17.A trimmed armour is like God armours - they're only a reward from treasure trails, and player can't trim them!
18.Jagex Doesn't let you say your password backwards anymore look ***** - Do not believe them, you can say your password backwards.
After you have read this guide, you can still get hacked. Trojans, spyware and viruses can infect your computer, and they can do more than stealing your password from Runescape. They can steal password from everything, track everything you do, make your computer slower, showing a lot of advertisments that shouldn't be there, damage or even ruin your computer, delete your harddisk and more. Every day, hundreds of people lose important information saved on their computer because of these softwares.
If you want to make your computer safe, you should have:
* A firewall, that will stop hackers that try to get into your computer
* An antivirus, that will run in the background, deleting viruses, and warn you if something unexpected happen.
* A spyware/adware removal that will delete spywares and adwares from your computer.
But remember that your computer is NEVER 100% safe! Even if you have 20 antiviruses, there will always be made new viruses!