Spam Advertisement on a new level!
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Power Egg
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| Posted: Oct 29, 2009 10:15 a.m. - Subject: Spam Advertisement on a new level! |
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As said in my previous topic I ditched my old email account after I got 24,000 contact add requests on msn.
Even after changing to a new address which granted was very similar, I thought that would be enough to throw whoever I thought was going after me off my trail. but then earlier i got 4000 requests from nowhere even though I pretty much solely use Fedora now and only ever used windows recently for gaming. I decided i could just click through them as fast as possible as it would only take 5 minutes to rid of them when i noticed that it was the same 15 email addresses over and over again?
Merely deleting the requests doesn’t block them so they simply re-appeared if I signed out then in again, so i chose to deny and block them too, signed out then in again and it stopped?
http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20091016135118AA5zfb1
This has shed rather a lot of light on me.
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Master Egg
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| Posted: Oct 29, 2009 10:43 a.m. - Subject: |
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There is an MSN virus thing cutting about anyway.
Sending people emails from their friends saying Heyyy,check out who has blocked you and then it sends you to a phishing site I think.
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Power Egg
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| Posted: Oct 29, 2009 11:12 a.m. - Subject: |
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I’ve seen those, Poison links was the nickname I think.
You click them and it manages to capture your login details (but not monitor) and then fills your inbox with spam and sends the link you clicked to everyone in your contacts list in hope they’re stupid enough to click it too.
it’s malware not actually in your system so the easy fix is to change your password and it stops immediately, people know about them well enough now though that very few people fall for it now.
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Power Egg
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AIM YIM
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| Posted: Oct 29, 2009 11:57 a.m. - Subject: |
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A former coworker had this thing in her comp; at that point it was the one that sends you links on MSN that say things like, "is this you?" and so on to try to get you to click.
This lady (who was a few fries short of a happy meal anyway) could not get rid of this malware to save her freaking life. Under the advisement of the company’s tech people, she uninstalled and then reinstalled MSN messenger and went through a variety of hotmail accounts to no avail; she used a bunch of different virus scanners and none of them came up with anything, either. (If you are wondering what eventually happened, they fired me for blocking her. I was like, "I’m sick of this, yo!" and blocked her and they were like, "You can’t block her, she’s a manager and needs to talk to you!" and I was like, "She can call me then! I block people who send me viruses."
So they fired me, lol. It wasn’t just for that; there were a few other things involved as well, but that’s how it all started.
If you suspect you have something on your comp, I recommend that you go to the Clamwin open source antivirus site and join their forum. They have a link to a page with like 12 different AV scanners on it so you can scan for malware without having to navigate to a bunch of different sites or install software.
What I think it is, however, is that the malware gets into hotmail, not into your comp. Many people start hotmail accounts because they think they need one to use MSN messenger but you can really use any mail service.
Sorry to hear about your problem. It sounds pretty fucked up. xoxoxo
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Power Egg
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| Posted: Oct 29, 2009 12:11 p.m. - Subject: |
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^I’ve already worked out it was something external sending those add requests, since making a new email address I have only been using Linux to manage the emails and use MSN via Pidgin.
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Normal Egg
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YIM
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| Posted: Oct 29, 2009 6:38 p.m. - Subject: |
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My best guess is that its a bot creating emails and collecting lists of known addresses, while creating new ones in a database and sending a test message so that they know if it works. More things will come to you!
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