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WhIzAtIt

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SPAM PRIVATE MESSAGES FROM AVAST FORUM MEMBER
« on: October 13, 2006, 08:03:07 AM »
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  URGENT MESSAGE FROM ADMIN!!!
« Sent to: Jackcoms on: Today at 01:06:49 AM »   

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If you have some time check out this COOL pic:

Also, check out the following website I came across:

It will knock your socks off!
Next, the below website is thrilling!!!

Finally, the following website is the absolute BOMB!!!

ENJOY!!!

MY PIC:
<^^^ This is the private message^^^>

<And this is the email i got>

You have just been sent a personal message by EdwardN on avast!WEBforum.

IMPORTANT: Remember, this is just a notification. Please do not reply to this email.

The message they sent you was:

If you have some time check out this COOL pic:

Also, check out the following website I came across:

It will knock your socks off!
Next, the below website is thrilling!!!

Finally, the following website is the absolute BOMB!!!

ENJOY!!!

MY PIC:




Heres the info on the email :

Return-path: <apache@avast.com>
Received: from ms-mta-01 (ms-mta-01-eri0.texas.rr.com [10.93.46.15])
 by ms-mss-05.texas.rr.com
 (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 2.10 (built Dec 26 2005))
 with ESMTP id <0J71003Z4VF8V6@ms-mss-05.texas.rr.com> for
 bdelony@sport.rr.com; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 20:13:56 -0500 (CDT)
Received: from hrndva-mx-04.mgw.rr.com (hrndva-mx-04.mgw.rr.com [24.28.204.23])
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 (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 2.10 (built Dec 26 2005))
 with ESMTP id <0J7100F2XVF517@ms-mta-01.texas.rr.com> for bdelony@sport.rr.com
 (ORCPT bdelony@sport.rr.com); Thu, 12 Oct 2006 20:13:56 -0500 (CDT)
Received: from sm00.avast.com ([70.84.157.228]) by hrndva-mx-04.mgw.rr.com with
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   by sm00.avast.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k9D1D4Ej014577   for
 <bdelony@sport.rr.com>; Fri, 13 Oct 2006 03:13:04 +0200
Received: (from apache@localhost)
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 13 Oct 2006 03:13:04 +0200
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 01:06:50 +0000
From: avast!WEBforum <webadmin@asw.cz>
Subject: New Personal Message: URGENT MESSAGE FROM ADMIN!!!
To: bdelony@sport.rr.com
Message-id: <200610130113.k9D1D4B3014575@sm00.avast.com>
Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
X-MID: 1913793818
Original-recipient: rfc822;bdelony@sport.rr.com
X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 0641-3, 10/12/2006), Inbound message
X-Antivirus-Status: Clean



 This was sent to my email and is a message sent to me by the person listed above. Please remove this imbicle from the forum. Thanks
« Last Edit: October 13, 2006, 09:08:36 AM by WhIzAtIt »
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Offline polonus

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Re: SPAM PRIVATE MESSAGES FROM AVAST FORUM MEMBER
« Reply #1 on: October 13, 2006, 08:17:34 AM »
Hi malware fighters and forum friends,

I think to prevent this from happening, because this can be very inconvenient to say the least if you open this up in the wrong place and on the wrong machine (use your phantasy), that the administration of this webforum should bring in a filter to remove pictures of an explicit nature, while Google can, MSN can and all other picture search engines can) Avast should do this too to protect their forum members, so traces of this are not left in anyones cache or elsewhere on a comp.
I do not like my computer to be compromised in such a way.
NetNanny this forum PM for the sake of all, and if it is a hole in the software or registration procedures CLOSE it,

polonus

« Last Edit: October 13, 2006, 08:19:22 AM by polonus »
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Erroneus

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Re: SPAM PRIVATE MESSAGES FROM AVAST FORUM MEMBER
« Reply #2 on: October 13, 2006, 08:25:18 AM »
Got the same message from EdwardN, please ban his ass!

But maybe you should change your Email notification layout, because recieving a email from avast with the topic: New Personal Message: URGENT MESSAGE FROM ADMIN!!!

Could be misunderstood as the admin sending out something, maybe change the title to:

New Personal Message from Forum User:  XXXXXX

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blackpanther

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Re: SPAM PRIVATE MESSAGES FROM AVAST FORUM MEMBER
« Reply #3 on: October 13, 2006, 08:32:12 AM »
Good morning,

sorry for bad english, I'm from Germany. Today I received a eMail with the notification of one new message. I opend and see a nude picture and spamtext. I hope the administration will delete the users. The following is the message without the picture:

The pn was send from the new user JessicaA with the title "URGENT MESSAGE FROM ADMIN!!!"
I did not delete the message because the Administration might want to see it. Thanks for helping.


Greetings from Germany
blackpanther
« Last Edit: October 13, 2006, 08:37:59 AM by kubecj »
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WhIzAtIt

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Re: SPAM PRIVATE MESSAGES FROM AVAST FORUM MEMBER
« Reply #4 on: October 13, 2006, 08:33:39 AM »
I dont think the urgent message was anything built into the forums to send an email in that fashion i think someone has compromised the email database of the forum and has made a generic layout that has that as the subject line /shrug either way this is udder bull**** and i think that the forum admins have seen this problem before recently and are probably working to figure out the loophole, backdoor, or whatever happend so they can fix it but i would appreciate a post started by an admin thats locked that is updated daily at the least as to the resolution and cause and/or solution to this situation. Thats the least that they can do to acknowledge this and keep us updated as to the culprate and the required actions being taken to prevent/stop this.
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Re: SPAM PRIVATE MESSAGES FROM AVAST FORUM MEMBER
« Reply #5 on: October 13, 2006, 08:40:06 AM »
i got porn spam from "EdwardN" too , someone ban this looser from here ...

also Alwil team You can avoid this by setting minimum e.g. 25 posts before being able use PM feature ...
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WhIzAtIt

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Re: SPAM PRIVATE MESSAGES FROM AVAST FORUM MEMBER
« Reply #6 on: October 13, 2006, 08:40:43 AM »
Quote from: polonus on October 13, 2006, 08:17:34 AM
Hi malware fighters and forum friends,

I think to prevent this from happening, because this can be very inconvenient to say the least if you open this up in the wrong place and on the wrong machine (use your phantasy), that the administration of this webforum should bring in a filter to remove pictures of an explicit nature, while Google can, MSN can and all other picture search engines can) Avast should do this too to protect their forum members, so traces of this are not left in anyones cache or elsewhere on a comp.
I do not like my computer to be compromised in such a way.
NetNanny this forum PM for the sake of all, and if it is a hole in the software or registration procedures CLOSE it,

polonus



I couldnt agree more, however i did not notice that i had the pic or the links in there  :o i was just aggrivated that i got an email in such a way from a well know reputable software company and wanted to address the issue.
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LdyTorie

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Re: SPAM PRIVATE MESSAGES FROM AVAST FORUM MEMBER
« Reply #7 on: October 13, 2006, 08:45:26 AM »
I have received the same e-mail with the links as reported here.  Scarey to think that an antivirus program users are being sent such stuff.   Mine was from  EdwardN on avast!WEBforum and the address was webadmin@asw.cz.  The time was 9:30:46 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time so apparently whoever is doing is NOT blocked.

Is there some place other than the forum where can report this junk?

LdyTorie
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lian

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Re: SPAM PRIVATE MESSAGES FROM AVAST FORUM MEMBER
« Reply #8 on: October 13, 2006, 08:50:48 AM »
Same message. Bad advertising for Avast  :'(
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Offline polonus

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Re: SPAM PRIVATE MESSAGES FROM AVAST FORUM MEMBER
« Reply #9 on: October 13, 2006, 08:53:18 AM »
Hi all,

If everyone was to update his pictures through imageshack or whatever, and no direct upload of pictures was possible, we would not have the situation we have now, I guess,

polonus
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Re: SPAM PRIVATE MESSAGES FROM AVAST FORUM MEMBER
« Reply #10 on: October 13, 2006, 09:01:27 AM »
Same message here. The rudest form of advertising. Probably right to ban this scumbag, but of course this sort of creep (or business entity) will just come back with a new username/email. Don't know what can be done, really. Glad it was via private message instead of direct to my email! That would have been a worry!
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Re: SPAM PRIVATE MESSAGES FROM AVAST FORUM MEMBER
« Reply #11 on: October 13, 2006, 09:05:05 AM »
I got the same Spam, but since I hardly ever get email from the forum and didn't know this bloke.  I came to the forum to check it out before opening.  I will now delete it.  If you use Firefox, you can have pictures turned off in email in case of just this happening.
I did change my email address to one I don't use often in gmail. 
I can't imagine why anyone would stop using Avast an excellent antivirus program because of this spam.  One has nothing to do with the other.

Ro Ro 8)
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Mantri

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Re: SPAM PRIVATE MESSAGES FROM AVAST FORUM MEMBER
« Reply #12 on: October 13, 2006, 09:16:39 AM »
I too got this spam message
how can some one send spam on an antivirus portal
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You have just been sent a personal message by EdwardN on
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« Last Edit: October 13, 2006, 09:24:27 AM by kubecj »
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withivy

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Re: SPAM PRIVATE MESSAGES FROM AVAST FORUM MEMBER
« Reply #13 on: October 13, 2006, 09:42:31 AM »
just for your stat
i received the same message this night from EdwardN
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Bima

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Re: SPAM PRIVATE MESSAGES FROM AVAST FORUM MEMBER
« Reply #14 on: October 13, 2006, 09:44:12 AM »
I got 2 Spam Mails/PMs - twice the one with the pic.

The spamers are the newly registered: RobertT and EdwardN
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