anti-virus spam in my personal messages here

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#1

Hi, it’s the third time I received this type of personal message here at JGO:

[quote]Dear, TheAnalogKid!

There are viruses’ activities from your computer! Highly recommend you to scan your computer for malicious and potentially unwanted software. If you do not follow this, I will have to make a complaint to your Internet Service Provider with attached log file (your IP address, etc.). If you want to find a report about your computer’s security and solve every problem with it, please click here:

<SNIP - LINK REMOVED Demonpants>

This is an online service that you can use for free spyware removal. Use it to scan your computer to help protect, clean, and keep your computer running at its best. Use the free scan to check for and remove viruses, spyware, and other potentially malicious software and to find vulnerabilities or shortcomings in your Internet security.

Thank you. Yours truly, Cliff Edwards.
[/quote]
As you can see, this type of aggressive tone only tells me that I’m a victim spam. The user who sent me this has registered on Feb 14 and has 0 post. Anybody has receive it as well? What can be done to stop it here?

#2

I got it too.
There’s a “report to moderator” link at the bottom-right of every PM. No use in this case though, as I have already clicked it, prompting Charlesj to act decisively.
So long Cliff Edwards!

#3

Already banned this guy, he was under “clifzz” (or something similar) please let me know me if you’re still getting this message, and who it’s from.

Also, please don’t post the link in the forum or their site is just going to get more search hits and people might click on it.

#4

Welcome to the Internet guys! ::slight_smile:

#5

Got one from Davietorr :

You have just been sent a personal message by Davietorr on JavaGaming.org.

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

The message they sent you was:

Dear, forum member!

There are viruses’ activities from your computer! Highly recommend you to scan your computer for malicious and potentially unwanted software. If you do not follow this, I will have to make a complaint to your Internet Service Provider with attached log file (your IP address, etc.). If you want to find a report about your computer’s security and solve every problem with it, please click here:

http://www.link-removed.com/detected/ultimate

This is an online service that you can use for free spyware removal. Use it to scan your computer to help protect, clean, and keep your computer running at its best. Use the free scan to check for and remove viruses, spyware, and other potentially malicious software and to find vulnerabilities or shortcomings in your Internet security.

Thank you. Yours truly, David Torres.

I clicked on the link, AVG antivirus reports it as an “Exploit Rogue Scanner (type 1027)”

Mods or Admin, update your forum permissions, don’t allow members to mass mail. Thanks.

#6

yeah, I got taht one too.

I just deleted it :stuck_out_tongue:

#7

Yes me to.

You have just been sent a personal message by Davietorr on JavaGaming.org.

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

The message they sent you was:

Dear, forum member!

There are viruses’ activities from your computer! Highly recommend you to scan your computer for malicious and potentially unwanted software. If you do not follow this, I will have to make a complaint to your Internet Service Provider with attached log file (your IP address, etc.). If you want to find a report about your computer’s security and solve every problem with it, please click here:

fucking total-scan

This is an online service that you can use for free spyware removal. Use it to scan your computer to help protect, clean, and keep your computer running at its best. Use the free scan to check for and remove viruses, spyware, and other potentially malicious software and to find vulnerabilities or shortcomings in your Internet security.

Thank you. Yours truly, David Torres.

Reply to this Personal Message here: url to this site.

If you go to the site it seems scanning your system. Working on Ubuntu with dll files (did n’t no I had dll on Linux). ;D
Can download security_tool_setup.exe, but that is where I stopped with this game. :smiley:

#8

and me too.

#9

Just came by to say about this.

Thanks for taking care of it

#10

The spammer has been banned via hostname, username, email name, and everything else we’ve got.

Charlie
JGO Webmaster

#11

Sweet. I don’t know how to get their IP unless they’ve made a forum post. Is there an easy way?

#12

we just have to wait till they get bored and go bother someone else ::slight_smile: ::slight_smile:

#13

Maybe putting in place some sort of approval process for account creation would help avoiding spam? The issue is that I don’t have a good idea for such an efficient process.

#14

personal-message-count must not exceed post-count

#15

is there no captcha for the register??

wouldnt that fool most bots?

#16

Not at all. And we’ve had this discussion already:

http://www.java-gaming.org/index.php/topic,21208.0.html

:slight_smile:

#17

so basically that entire thread was for nothing?

why not just put one in really quick :P. I mean, it doesnt bother any current members, so there is not need to consult them

#18

I’d say, to send a PM (and even post in a forum?), put in place a process that forces the user to type in the words or numbers that’re displayed in an image.

#19

It wasn’t for nothing. Chris is the only one with access to this stuff and he’s a very busy guy. It’ll be there whenever it is. But at least now he has a point of reference to see what people would like in terms of spam control.

#20

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hmm, if he doesnt work at sun anymore, then that means that he doesnt have physical access, so why would he be able to do it and you cant?