Why would anyone use a 3rd party client to play runescape? answer: it does something novel or useful. this falls in to two categories: a) game features not provided by jagex that offer no advantage e.g. group chat, current world displayed B) game features not provided by jagex that offer advantage ingame e.g. logging into full words, macro key clickers B) is against the rules. i suggest jagex take note and build the features from a) into their own game (this is free research for them after all) those who use 3rd party clients for reason B) will be exposed anyway. as always, ANY software downloaded from the internet should be scanned for keyloggers viruses spyware etc. this includes 3rd party clients. if anyone is silly enough to use one without doing so, they are going to suffer! 99% of account theft is done by someone that knows the player anyway, i think that the problem of theft through clients is overestimated. PS. if anyone wants to do group chat, why use a client when you can use a chat program separate from runescape? my 2cents worth :D