Virus sent to me

Using this sites contact function.

I HATE people who do this.


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Steve,have you pm Judy directly about this? I would if not.So they contacted you thru a email directly? I would disable that option then so it never happens again.How did you recognize it had a virus attatched? This would help others recognize it also.

When I opened the email, Macafee went nuts.

I tried to PM her and kept getting a message that I didn't specify the user or type more than 6 characters in the note.
I'll try again.

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Originally Posted by SPJ

When I opened the email, Macafee went nuts.

I tried to PM her and kept getting a message that I didn't specify the user or type more than 6 characters in the note.
I'll try again.

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Wow! Yea you have to write so much or it will not send your pm :)

what was the virus name exactly? It could have been a false positive or a spoof email that didn't come from the forum at all. When someone uses this forum's email function there is no option to upload a file that a virus could be wrapped in. Howerver there is spyware and malware that can record things you see or simply make up official looking emails that contain malicious programs. Is this even a user you recognize? Have you done a search to see if its even a real user? Don't jump to conclusions just yet ;)

yes please don't!

Let me check the logs.

You should never post your email adress anywhere as above either - I'll edit that out for you.

We have the sites contact function set to secure - so that when you use it the member's email adress is not displayed.

My bad above the email adress displayed was not yours.

I will turn off this feature until I am satisfied everything is as it ought to be.

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Originally Posted by Smulkin

I will turn off this feature until I am satisfied everything is as it ought to be.

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Thank you for looking out for us :cool: :rockon:

Just as an FYI I was just made aware that one of the sister sites to a forum I run is having some issues. A user reported virus notification and automatic dowloading of file(s) via what appears to be a malicious PHP script. The site is now 404! Hope there are not any cracks in security here Smulkin!