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animeaime
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by animeaime » 14.01.2010, 00:20
Inside this PM is the following message.
laarissa721 wrote:Hello, my friend. I found report about your computer's security at:
http: // detected. co. cc/ animeaime
Please, take this into account.
Best regards, Forum Member )
Note: I added spaces to the URL to ensure it's not clickable.
I assume this link leads to a virus of some form or fashion. Again, do not open this email. Please delete immediately.
Edit:
Doing a google search shows this post mentioned elsewhere as well -
More Pm Spam - The M3cutters - UK BMW M3 Group Forum
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Papakid
- Posts: 5
- Joined: 17.07.2008, 16:36
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by Papakid » 14.01.2010, 03:41
I get the same altho with my user name at the end of the link instead of yours. Sounds like purveyors of scareware.
I've sent a PM to Site Admin Dreamer so that this can be dealt with quickly, I hope.
This is going around many forums so they are probably using a forum spamming program. Another report of similar here--well I don't have enough posts to include the link.
And it's not just VB forums--this site is phpBB.
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phedlund
- Posts: 3
- Joined: 18.06.2008, 18:55
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by phedlund » 14.01.2010, 04:02
I just was sent a message in the same way
Thank goodness for Avast.
It would be nice if laarissa721 was locked out of the forum.
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Timelord
- Posts: 5
- Joined: 07.08.2008, 10:44
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by Timelord » 14.01.2010, 07:40
I followed the link.
Tjhere's a page which suggests your pc in infected.
It's scam. Don't click OK anywhere. Close all windows and dialogboxes.
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enkryptor
- Posts: 24
- Joined: 21.12.2007, 13:20
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by enkryptor » 14.01.2010, 09:41
It's safe to open the PM itself, but it's better not to follow the link.
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matera
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- Location: a cold place
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by matera » 14.01.2010, 17:05
I must have had one of those too, I had an e-mail notification but no message here today. Thanks for the cleanup, Dreamer.
Windows Vista 64-bit
Pentium E5200 Dual Core 2.5GHz
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animeaime
- Posts: 8
- Joined: 28.10.2008, 01:38
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by animeaime » 15.01.2010, 03:41
Got the same message, this time from a user "yaniick719".
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Papakid
- Posts: 5
- Joined: 17.07.2008, 16:36
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by Papakid » 15.01.2010, 04:11
Now
LadyAdministrator is getting in on the act. New message that is much more convincing as s/he is pretending to be a admin at this forum. Check her profile--she just joined the forum today so obviously bogus.
Here's the new message (I disabled the URL--also substituted the word dot for the dot's at the end that looks like a URL--looks like all links have been disabled now):
Dear, Papakid!
A virus alert was noticed on your computer.
We highly recommend you to check your computer and perform online virus check at our site immediately: antivirus-dot-effectmeds-dot-com/Papakid
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Sincerely, Forum Administration forum-dot-freecommander-dot-com.
I think I'll start a new topic as someone might fall for this, altho I think most freecommander people won't.
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