Warning Mysterious PM

David · 28th November 2007, 06:22 PM

I has already been definitely IDed as spam, but i do not believe there will be any adverse effects for those that opened it.
Michel, apparently this particular piece of spam has been showing up on many forums and is engineered to work within the PM systems of a forum so there really wasn't much we could do to avoid it this time though i am sure that Lee is looking into ways to prevent it from happening again in the future.

kronckew · 28th November 2007, 06:46 PM

rick, david;

i'd deactivate that link by changing the colon to a semi-colon,
to keep anyone from trying it by mistake.

as in:

http;//zenofeller.com/books/asylum/asylum_chapter1.html

more recent vbulletin version vbcodes allow a tag pair

(i'm a moderator on another forum myself - we've had a quiet period recently re spam, but have had 11 yesterday, including one new guy who posted the same junk in 9 subforums a day after he'd posted two & been disciplined - he is now noted as a miserable user there) - they haven't gotten to the pm's on our forum yet, thank god.

28th November 2007, 06:22 PM	#1
David Keris forum moderator Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Nova Scotia Posts: 7,231	I has already been definitely IDed as spam, but i do not believe there will be any adverse effects for those that opened it. Michel, apparently this particular piece of spam has been showing up on many forums and is engineered to work within the PM systems of a forum so there really wasn't much we could do to avoid it this time though i am sure that Lee is looking into ways to prevent it from happening again in the future.

28th November 2007, 06:46 PM	#2
kronckew Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Room 101, Glos. UK Posts: 4,243	rick, david; i'd deactivate that link by changing the colon to a semi-colon, to keep anyone from trying it by mistake. as in: http;//zenofeller.com/books/asylum/asylum_chapter1.html more recent vbulletin version vbcodes allow a tag pair (i'm a moderator on another forum myself - we've had a quiet period recently re spam, but have had 11 yesterday, including one new guy who posted the same junk in 9 subforums a day after he'd posted two & been disciplined - he is now noted as a miserable user there) - they haven't gotten to the pm's on our forum yet, thank god.