Avast User Registration Data Base Compromise?

[jeds]

I think the mods have done the only best action, to disable pm's.

My last post here was the end of 03, and I don't recall visiting until I got the same email. Also I never used the pm's, but had a message from each of these guys.

[DavidR]

Avast team:

Disable PM globally on all accounts and let users turn the feature ON if they select to do so.  I would imagine the vast majority of registered forum users have not ever used the PM feature.  Also see if limits on number of PMs or posts in a given day or maybe hour could be set so that automated PM attacks are not effective.

There are already steps implimented to counter this PM spam atack and an apology, http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=24203.0

[bob3160]

I think the mods have done the only best action, to disable pm's.

My last post here was the end of 03, and I don't recall visiting until I got the same email. Also I never used the pm's, but had a message from each of these guys.

I think that if people would learn to stop opening PM's, e-mail's , and messages in IM's from people they don't know or,
communications that contain links to places they don't know or didn't request, none of this would have bothered anyone
outside of alerting a Moderator.
If you don't know what it is and aren't familiar with the contents, DELETE IT.