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Patch-3.mpq

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Tatharnio
#0 - Jan. 16, 2010, 6:20 a.m.
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My girlfriends computer got hacked today. I've run multiple virus/spybot scans on it and have seen no sign of a trojan/virus. She hasn't put in her password into any sites/emails aside from logging into the game.

Poking around her folders, i saw the oddest thing. So i checked it on mine, and sure enough both computers have a file called Patch-3.mpq which is only 1kb. I know that normally Blizz just patches to the Patch-2 file, and patch-3 has only been used for exploit programs. Did something change with the last patch, or is patch-3 not supposed to be there?

I'm authenticated, so I'd have no idea if my account information had been comprimised, which is why i ask.

Thanks

Tath
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Datth
#2 - Jan. 16, 2010, 4:39 p.m.
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Patch-2.MPQ got a bit hefty and would cross the FAT32 file size limit if we shoved more stuff into it, so we made a patch-3.MPQ and shoved stuff there instead.