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| Mehrdad |
 Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2010 12:51 am Post subject: ALERT - Spam and Phishing PMs - Private Messaging Disabled |
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There have been several reported instances of PMs sent under the site administrator name. There are links within the PMs which are most likely to be dangerous.
for the time being we have disabled PMs for all users while we look into and investigate the problem.
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| shashivarungupta |
| Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2010 1:10 am Post subject: |
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Security Breach !
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| mqmatt |
| Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2010 4:22 am Post subject: |
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| Psst... wanna buy some message broker? :^) |
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| Vitor |
| Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2010 6:14 am Post subject: |
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| mqmatt wrote: |
| Psst... wanna buy some message broker? :^) |
Is it the good stuff....the "7"???? 
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| Mehrdad |
| Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2010 12:43 pm Post subject: |
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apparently the phishing PMers are back.
we have disabled PMs for now and taken action against the offending member id.
DO NOT click on URLs within PMs sent to you by those unknown to you. |
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| bruce2359 |
| Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2010 3:10 pm Post subject: |
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with pointy objects?
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| fjb_saper |
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| bruce2359 wrote: |
with pointy objects? |
And smelling trouts ... 
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| Mehrdad |
| Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2010 12:39 am Post subject: |
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it's better to say less ....
for now just hit them with these  and then collecitvely wish them an early one of these  |
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| shashivarungupta |
| Posted: Mon Jul 26, 2010 8:16 am Post subject: |
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| Mehrdad wrote: |
apparently the phishing PMers are back.
DO NOT click on URLs within PMs sent to you by those unknown to you. |
Am not even able to Open my mailbox. I can see in my profile 1 new message is there BUT "Private messaging has been disabled on this board" I get this.
 
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| exerk |
| Posted: Mon Jul 26, 2010 8:27 am Post subject: |
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| shashivarungupta wrote: |
| ...Am not even able to Open my mailbox... |
And the subject of the original post is: ALERT - Spam and Phishing PMs - Private Messaging Disabled
Why am I not surprised, that you are surprised, that something is working as advertised 
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| Vitor |
| Posted: Mon Jul 26, 2010 8:31 am Post subject: |
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| exerk wrote: |
| shashivarungupta wrote: |
| ...Am not even able to Open my mailbox... |
And the subject of the original post is: ALERT - Spam and Phishing PMs - Private Messaging Disabled
Why am I not surprised, that you are surprised, that something is working as advertised |
Or not working as advertised, because according to this thread it's been disabled.
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| bruce2359 |
| Posted: Mon Jul 26, 2010 9:06 am Post subject: |
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Perhaps the thinking was that only the Spam and Phishing PMs - Private Messaging Disabled; and that the non-Span and non-Phishing PMs remained enabled.
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| Vitor |
| Posted: Mon Jul 26, 2010 9:18 am Post subject: |
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| bruce2359 wrote: |
| Perhaps the thinking was that only the Spam and Phishing PMs - Private Messaging Disabled; and that the non-Span and non-Phishing PMs remained enabled. |
And if there's any technology / ideas for fitting the PM fuction with a spam filter I feel sure they'd be most welcome.
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| bruce2359 |
| Posted: Mon Jul 26, 2010 9:22 am Post subject: |
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Years ago Katie Couric had an anti-virus software creator on her newscast. She asked (incredulously) why don't "they" simply disable the computer instructions that hackers use?
Duh.
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| shashivarungupta |
| Posted: Mon Jul 26, 2010 9:43 am Post subject: |
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| exerk wrote: |
| shashivarungupta wrote: |
| ...Am not even able to Open my mailbox... |
And the subject of the original post is: ALERT - Spam and Phishing PMs - Private Messaging Disabled
Why am I not surprised, that you are surprised, that something is working as advertised |
and I am surprised coz PM has been disabled since 22nd (since after Mehrdad posted last message). I was checking my 'PM' is still disabled or not ! and culprit is still away 
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