huey graphite Posted April 8, 2009 Report Share Posted April 8, 2009 Anyone else receive a PM from this member this morning? Subject line is "hello" and the body says Please Help (underlined) and is a link to another website. I'm thinking i's possibly a virus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chem geek Posted April 8, 2009 Report Share Posted April 8, 2009 Anyone else receive a PM from this member this morning? Subject line is "hello" and the body says Please Help (underlined) and is a link to another website. I'm thinking i's possibly a virus I got the PM too. Dr. Spa has modified that user ID to prevent this as described here. Hopefully this will stop. I don't think it's a virus, but plain old spam as the link was to a pornographic site. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnInSJ Posted April 8, 2009 Report Share Posted April 8, 2009 Yay **** Spam! Because you know, **** is really hard to find on the internet. Sad. Just sad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dnepr Dave Posted April 8, 2009 Report Share Posted April 8, 2009 I got one too, I ignored it and deleted the PM Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hotrod Posted April 9, 2009 Report Share Posted April 9, 2009 I got one too, I ignored it and deleted the PM Dave Yup Got one also Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chem geek Posted April 9, 2009 Report Share Posted April 9, 2009 I just got another one of these. This time it's a PM from murzinkl with a link to a Russian website that redirects to a pornographic site -- similar to before. So perhaps you were right since the Russian site may be trying to attack vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer (Microsoft has patches, but not everyone has their system set for auto-install). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Spa Posted April 9, 2009 Report Share Posted April 9, 2009 Folks, there's not a lot I can do. I can ban the person from posting and sending PM's, but if they create another user ID it just starts all over. Send me a PM when it happens, and I'll ban them as soon as I get it. Not much else I can do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dnepr Dave Posted April 9, 2009 Report Share Posted April 9, 2009 I got another one. You could block the IP address or report the spam to his service provider. Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nitro Posted April 9, 2009 Report Share Posted April 9, 2009 I got both also. I just blocked them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Spa Posted April 9, 2009 Report Share Posted April 9, 2009 I got another one. You could block the IP address or report the spam to his service provider. Dave Nope, moderators are actually rather limited in their abilities. We can't block IP numbers. At least, I haven't seen any way to do so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billhill Posted April 9, 2009 Report Share Posted April 9, 2009 was it a good site???....................totally kidding Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dnepr Dave Posted April 14, 2009 Report Share Posted April 14, 2009 I'm still getting spam PMs, today from terkovskyr. Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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