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Pathfinder

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Important message from the forum administration!
« on: February 07, 2010, 08:37:26 PM »
Anyone else get this stupid PM? It is a spammer on the site, and if a bunch of us got it, then it might mean the site was hacked.

Here's the text of the PM message I got with the url in the message scrambled. Note the use of my onscreen personna as a lead in:

Dear, Pathfinder!

A virus alert was noticed on your computer.
We highly recommend you to check your computer and perform online virus check at our site immediately: http://security-txxx.xxx/Pathfinder
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Forum Administration www.downrange.tv.

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Re: Important message from the forum administration!
« Reply #1 on: February 07, 2010, 08:41:28 PM »
Path, I got it as well, Deleted it as spam
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Re: Important message from the forum administration!
« Reply #2 on: February 07, 2010, 09:31:00 PM »
Negative Path, no such PM for me.

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Re: Important message from the forum administration!
« Reply #3 on: February 07, 2010, 09:41:40 PM »
must be an inside job   


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Re: Important message from the forum administration!
« Reply #4 on: February 07, 2010, 09:48:04 PM »
Quote from: Jackel link=topic=11164.msg146275#msg146275 da1265600500
must be an inside job   




This reminds me of my youth:

"He whom hath smelled it, hath dealt IT." or something to that affect.

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Re: Important message from the forum administration!
« Reply #5 on: Today at 05:43:17 AM »
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Re: Important message from the forum administration!
« Reply #5 on: February 07, 2010, 11:21:53 PM »
yeah I got that message too. From some loser who has nothing better to do, I guess.
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Re: Important message from the forum administration!
« Reply #6 on: February 07, 2010, 11:32:01 PM »
I didn't get it either.
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Re: Important message from the forum administration!
« Reply #7 on: February 08, 2010, 01:12:45 AM »
Quote from: tombogan03884 on February 07, 2010, 11:32:01 PM
I didn't get it either.
Me neither.
Should we feel insulted, or did they just read our credit reports? ;D ;D ;D
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Re: Important message from the forum administration!
« Reply #8 on: February 08, 2010, 03:19:38 AM »
It is better than just a PM, as I received an email at the account I registered with, which was set to 'Hidden'. So the entire subscriber database is likely hacked, jacked and harvested.
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Re: Important message from the forum administration!
« Reply #9 on: February 08, 2010, 04:07:38 AM »
no virus's  here

I am on a Mac :)



hehe :P
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