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[Mysteriphys]

I just got a pm from user XandderrMan with the message:

Hello, friend. There are viruses' activities from your computer in last few days. Strongly recommend you to check your computer. You can find a report about your computer's security and solve every problem with it here: http://www.virus-*****/detected/Mysteriphys
Thank you. Forum member.

scramble the link so no one accidentally clicks it, the starred part is total.net...

Just thought I should report in about it.

[J M Fahey]

Hi Misteriphys, thanks for reporting.
We are suffering a virus attack for about a month or so.
Members are *strongly* encouraged not to click any suspicious "new" link.
Red flags/danger signs:
*New, previously unknown member (sorry new members, make yourselves known a little, avoid links on your *first* post , ask whatever you want and get invited to link schematics or whatever)
* Posts something irrelevant , such as "my cellphone now works better because ...." , "I found this incredible site full of Manga/Anime/Soccer pictures/whatever"
*Posts random, generic, valid anywhere responses, such as "good post", "security is important", "wash your hands", etc.
There is a new worm specifically written to attack forums such as this one: becomes member, reads all posts until it finds a word repeated often , say, "Stratocaster" and posts phrases like "if you want to see my *Stratocaster* , click: xxx.yyy.com"
Warning: some do not seem to post links in the message body itself, but on the signature.
Well, report if you see one, do not rely on "somebody else will"
Besides the virus problems caused to individual members, it would be a pity that some virus took down this great board.

[joecool85]

XandderrMan has been put on a temporary ban.  If it happens again, please let us know.

[Mysteriphys]

If it happens again I'll post again, I've run a few forums myself in the past, those things sure can be a pest after a while. and this forum seems to be an A-1 resource. it would be a shame if it was over run :-/.

I'll be around

[phatt]

just got one from *RazzorrMan* zero posts 
joined on the 7th and PM's me on the 9th.
Phil.

[Mysteriphys]

ValeryHub - "Hello, Mysteriphys.
Do you have XRumer 5.0.12 Palladium?
My friend was recommended this well-known software package for advertisement my w-site and money earning.
Can you share it? PLEASE!
Or maybe download link.... Thank you. Kiss you...

Kiss .......)"

yaaaa... thats anotherone

[J M Fahey]

This is one of the "Intelligent Spammers" I was talking about.
Unfortunately for us, it becomes member of our Forum, reads silently the posts for a while and then starts posting including links to the site they promote.
Now there's a new one, they started PM legitimate members.
Some details from their home site:

XRumer is a software application that automatically posts your messages to bulletin boards

In a word it is an autosubmitter.

Attention: unique feature ? software works around EVERY possible type of protection from automatic registration.

 

A variations system, using which you can post up to 10000 messages all looking different but with similar contextual meaning and the user-defined hyperlinks in them.

[joecool85]

I've updated the settings so users with less than 5 posts on the forum cannot send a PM.  This should clear out most of our issues I think.

[phatt]

I've updated the settings so users with less than 5 posts on the forum cannot send a PM.  This should clear out most of our issues I think.

Thanks for all you do Joe
and all the others involved in keeping things in order.

[joecool85]

I've updated the settings so users with less than 5 posts on the forum cannot send a PM.  This should clear out most of our issues I think.

Thanks for all you do Joe
and all the others involved in keeping things in order.

Your welcome, glad to know it's appreciated.  And thank you for being a part of this board.  It wouldn't be what it is without it's many members posting as often as you guys do.