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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

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.

http://www.pokecommunity.com/showthread.php?p=5471424

I guess there is no such similar restrictions on links in PM's.

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.

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.

It's safe to open the PM itself, but it's better not to follow the link.

I must have had one of those too, I had an e-mail notification but no message here today. Thanks for the cleanup, Dreamer.

Got the same message, this time from a user "yaniick719".

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.