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Posted By: Bryan Long
A request to fellow board members: Please take me off any mailing list that you may have. I am getting a few e-mails from board members that have nothing to do with baseball cards. I have no interest in buying computers, IPODs or televisions. |
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Posted By: Mark T
same thing just happened to me!!! |
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Posted By: Sean BH
Mark, |
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Posted By: Dave F
I got it too. Looks like it went through Mark's email...he was listed as the sender. |
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Posted By: Matt
I got it as well; I also got one from Wonka a few days back. |
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Posted By: Chris
That's one thing I really don't like about the N54 messageboards. Other messageboard programs allow you to be contacted either by PM or even e-mail, without having to disclose your e-mail address directly with each post. I'm surprised this type of thing doesn't happen more to be honest. |
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Posted By: Mark T
I would never send that stuff to you guys so it must be using addresses to bounce around. |
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Posted By: Kyle
I got it too, but I think it could have been a spam email, "virus" email or a hacked email email. I don't think it was legitimately from the sender. |
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Posted By: Sean BH
But Mark, I will take 2 iPods (8gb touch) if you still have availability? Also what kind of GPS systems do you have? |
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Posted By: Mark T
of 5 spams... |
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Posted By: Mark T
i own a GPS but don't have an ipod, my kids would destroy it!!! |
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Posted By: leon
I think this spam, which I have gotten several of, came from a collector named "jacsports". At least that is what he said in an email he sent out....He is working on it.... |
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Posted By: Al C.risafulli
Ah, it's invaded the hobby. It seems like it's re-sending itself to everyone in the inbox of whoever opens it. So don't open it, or it will just keep sending over and over. |
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Posted By: john wondowski
Sorry, folks. My laptop got hit with a spambot and sent out of few hundred wacko emails. Gonna be a fun next couple of days. |
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Posted By: Red
It's very likely that the name displayed in the from section has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with the sending of the spam email. It’s just plugged in there by the spam program that’s working from an email list that everybody who's getting them is on. |
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Posted By: Mark T
Ran spybot and virus detector and seems like it was just a Email spam mass sending. |
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Posted By: Peter Thomas
I guess I got the same email a few minutes ago it appears to have gone thru Scott B's email address, so I guess it will be going around. I think it is purged from my office email - need to check home. |
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Posted By: Jason L
a couple of emails from me worth reading today |
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Posted By: Eric
I got it as well, from Mark. I hope it doesn't send it through all my contacts. If it does, I appologize in advance. |
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Posted By: Matt
Just to quiet down the "scare" a little, neither the email sent today that looks like it came from Mark or the one a few days ago that had John W as the sender have anything in them that could infect your inbox and send mail to your contacts. They are benign emails in that sense. |
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Posted By: Eric
Good to know. Thanks Matt. |
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Posted By: Bryan Long
I appreciate the feedback and I apologize as I didn't want to point fingers at anyone. |
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Posted By: Mark T
if it was from me...not intended. |
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Posted By: Jason
This is strange. Everyone on my contact list in gmail got blasted with an IPOD offer from me. Since it was web based email I knew it wasn't a virus but ran the scans anyways. Since that one email that "I" sent out. Gmail's contact list stopped working and when it returned my contacts were gone. |
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Posted By: scott levy
I've got a few cellphones for sale...mostly from the early 1990s. They kinda look like that mobile phone in the movie "Wall Street" -- kidding (but I really do have them in the basement). |
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Posted By: Bryan Long
Mark T. |
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Posted By: Sean BH
So no one has iPods for sale? My kids will be upset with me. |
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Posted By: Frank B
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Posted By: brian mcqueen
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Posted By: Mark T
I did NOT open mine i got from board members because with Gmail you can see a line of what the email is about and i knew it was spam but did not realize it took my contacts and emailed them. |
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Posted By: Brian McQueen
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Posted By: B D
and you wont get them. |
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Posted By: Matt
Here is a little bit more information. |
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Posted By: Mark T
you are right...all but 4 off my contacts have been deleted!!! |
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Posted By: john wondowski
Matt, |
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Posted By: Matt
John - that's interesting. There have been a few dozen reports about it that I have seen and they all were Microsoft Messenger based. Do you have a chat client that runs on your computer? If so, it would be instructive to know what client it is and if your AOL email account is associated with it. |
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Posted By: john wondowski
Matt, |
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Posted By: Matt
John - I believe due to the relationship between AOL and Microsoft, you can run Messenger associated with an AOL account. That might explain your situation. |
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Posted By: john wondowski
Just went upstairs for the update. Cannot find the actual virus or origination of the infestation. Lots of ad/spyware that wasn't there earlier, but nothing to clean that references the problem. I hate this stuff. |
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Posted By: Mark T
How it got in my email system and deleted my contacts without me opening anything is strange. I don't have AOL, i use Gmail which has been wonderful. |
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Posted By: george "bulldog" adams
hey matt that`s some poor information you`re tossing around it has nothing to do with msn messenger and it has nothing to do with chat clients and no passwords need to be changed this is a worm which is a self-replicating program or algorithm that sends a copy of itself to everyone listed in their email address book and then the worm self-replicates and sends itself to everyone listed in each of the receiver`s email address books and the end result is a huge devastating effect which can cause web servers and network servers and individual computers to crash due to the copying and traveling nature of the worm as it eats up so much system memory and network bandwidth. bulldog |
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Posted By: george "bulldog" adams
would recommend you guys pick up a copy of mcaffee security center which contains a firewall and anti-virus and other tools it will clean up this mess and will block any future email worms as well as other security risks if you keep it updated. bulldog |
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Posted By: Matt
John - thanks for the update. If it's not too late, just changing your email password seems to solve the problem for others that were infected. |
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Posted By: george "bulldog" adams
hey matt it is a worm and i am not offering my opinion i am stating a fact so there is nothing to agree or disagree with you can educate yourself by googling. bulldog |
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Posted By: Matt
George maybe you could be kind enough and point me to a webpage that talks about this issue? Apparently my googling skills pale in comparison to yours as I have not been able to come up with anything that supports your claim regarding this behavior. |
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Posted By: Mark T
never have used MSN messenger. I believe i have it pre-programed in my Dell but i have never even logged in. |
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Posted By: Sean
I just googled "bulldog" and only a bunch of things came up about English Bulldogs and this cute picture... |
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Posted By: Cobby33
We get this crap at work a lot and we have very expensive virus/spyware/etc. programs. These hackers are so sophisticated that they can get through it. Typically, I get copies of spam directed to (or from) other people in my office or contacts and they get the same from me. It sucks. |
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Posted By: Matt
By the way, it appears MAC users are affected as well: |
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Posted By: Matt
George - I still can't find a link that confirms what you said - if you have one, why not post it? |
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