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Old 27-11-13, 06:12 PM
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Just wanted to let you know that i got a message from member that he got an email from me, with spam in the email.

Well, at first I know sometimes if someone opens an email it grabs the email list of that person. You never really know if it was your self or your on a friends sent list. But I remembers this morning I got a notification that someone had added a line to a thread that I had written on. I opened it as I always do for the forum and when I clicked on the link to take me to it. The text that was in the notification wasn't there.

I was hacked via the forum I imagine. The notification was one from the forum in all ways, links an all.

Just wanted to let everyone know to be careful.

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Old 27-11-13, 06:31 PM
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Simon,
I had two emails from your address this afternoon, one of which had the text in German!

Both now deleted! That is now 4 cases in the past few months, the only common denominator being the Forum?

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Old 27-11-13, 06:37 PM
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Simon,
My email (outlook) does not appear to be allowing me to reply to the email you sent! The badge you attached is 100% genuine with a c.WW1 extruded slider!

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Old 27-11-13, 06:53 PM
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Cheers Andy on the I.D and thumbs u. And yes on the spamming hack. I thought it was weird when I went to the thread and the message that was in the notification wasn't there. I had to go out, so I just deleted it.

Makes it difficult to see what's going on. maybe tun off notifications for a bit and just check manually each day and check the threads.

Anyway, thanks again.

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Old 27-11-13, 07:26 PM
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Q for the both of you. What a) operating system are you using, b) Are you using Windows IE or Firefox Thunderbird or ??; c) What anti-spam do you use - McAfee, IOBit, SpyBot?? I am asking on the basis that so far(!!!) I haven't seen this problem.... I am using Windows7, Firefox Thunderbird plus McAfee and Spybot ; W2000+SP4 & Firefox Thunderbird + McAfee, and up to now, haven't had any problems... My wife uses a Mac and again, so far, she hasn't had any problems so far.....
As I seem (for some reason) to have some spare time, maybe I could look into it.
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Old 27-11-13, 07:54 PM
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I really (really, really) do not know why anyone would still use Microsoft products (IE & Outlook).

They are the most issue riddled products in their field, and because of their popularity, hackers spend time on them.

Get yourselves onto Firefox or Opera, and get one of the free (AVG or Avast) virus checkers. Better still, buy yourself a Mac.

Most importantly of all, stop clicking on links in emails!!!

Be careful out there!

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Q for the both of you. What a) operating system are you using, b) Are you using Windows IE or Firefox Thunderbird or ??; c) What anti-spam do you use - McAfee, IOBit, SpyBot?? I am asking on the basis that so far(!!!) I haven't seen this problem.... I am using Windows7, Firefox Thunderbird plus McAfee and Spybot ; W2000+SP4 & Firefox Thunderbird + McAfee, and up to now, haven't had any problems... My wife uses a Mac and again, so far, she hasn't had any problems so far.....
As I seem (for some reason) to have some spare time, maybe I could look into it.
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I've been mostly away from home the past few weeks, so working off iPad and iPhone, so no need for any anti virus! In the office I use Firefox as a browser with Norton (I'll probably change to something free when the subscription is up) and although I have Thunderbird for emails linked to SMM, I much prefer Outlook despite its obvious short comings as I personally find it more user friendly!

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Old 27-11-13, 10:10 PM
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Hi all

Just wanted to let you know that i got a message from member that he got an email from me, with spam in the email.

Well, at first I know sometimes if someone opens an email it grabs the email list of that person. You never really know if it was your self or your on a friends sent list. But I remembers this morning I got a notification that someone had added a line to a thread that I had written on. I opened it as I always do for the forum and when I clicked on the link to take me to it. The text that was in the notification wasn't there.

I was hacked via the forum I imagine. The notification was one from the forum in all ways, links an all.

Just wanted to let everyone know to be careful.

Regards
Simon.
Got two emails from you........dumped them in the spam bin.
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Old 27-11-13, 10:58 PM
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Simon, this is going to sound boring, but I received two spam e-mails, I didn't know you were in advertising . . !

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Old 27-11-13, 11:03 PM
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Well I am actually, but not that kind......

I think that the issue here that is being missed is that you can't even trust a notification off the forum now. I delete them all now without opening. I just wanted t let everyone know the forum has a breech.

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Old 27-11-13, 11:47 PM
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Hi all

Just wanted to let you know that i got a message from member that he got an email from me, with spam in the email.

Well, at first I know sometimes if someone opens an email it grabs the email list of that person. You never really know if it was your self or your on a friends sent list. But I remembers this morning I got a notification that someone had added a line to a thread that I had written on. I opened it as I always do for the forum and when I clicked on the link to take me to it. The text that was in the notification wasn't there.

I was hacked via the forum I imagine. The notification was one from the forum in all ways, links an all.

Just wanted to let everyone know to be careful.

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Simon.

Hi Simon, can you forward the original notification email to me? Is the thread you subscribed to still there?

I doubt the forum has been hacked, it's probably just coincidence.
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Old 28-11-13, 12:23 AM
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Hi Mike, this is the thread, but sorry. No I don;t have the original notification.

http://www.britishbadgeforum.com/for...ad.php?t=36100

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Old 28-11-13, 01:47 AM
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I've had a look in the moderator log and a post was removed from that thread 9.53am 27/11/13 uk time, I suspect it was a new post.

In the meantime an email would be generated but the link would become dead when the post was removed.

So the email was good but later moderation activity goofed it up.

The spam problem using your email address probably lies elsewhere.
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Old 28-11-13, 01:52 PM
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Hi Mike, That was the only email I opened that I clicked on a link, I don;t do that for any other than the forum emails. Everything else goes to the span folder. And yes, when I clicked on the link nothing came up, just a blank page if I remember. I thought at the time that the forum server was having issues, and closed it. Then went out for the day.

I came back to an email from a forum member as I said, and a ton of returned email notifications.

When I check the roum later in the day, and saw that the text shown in the original notification wasn't on the thread I put two and two together.

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Old 28-11-13, 03:58 PM
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I really (really, really) do not know why anyone would still use Microsoft products (IE & Outlook).

They are the most issue riddled products in their field, and because of their popularity, hackers spend time on them.

Get yourselves onto Firefox or Opera, and get one of the free (AVG or Avast) virus checkers. Better still, buy yourself a Mac.

Most importantly of all, stop clicking on links in emails!!!

Be careful out there!

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