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Phaelax
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Posted: 24th Nov 2005 04:52 Edited at: 24th Nov 2005 04:55
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Got some spam with an attached file, claiming to be from darkbasic.com. If you look at the "To:" address, it's not even my email address. I think somebody doesn't fully understand what the spoofing telnet commands do. Looks like they meant to type SMTP or something, like it was suppose to be there in the console.



As a side note, there's currently a security problem with all OS's(i think) A javascript hole that lets somebody install on your computer simply by visiting a website. hence why i didn't click the link in the email. who knows where i'd be redirected to.


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Briere
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Posted: 24th Nov 2005 04:53
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Get ready for an assault of insults coming to defend TGC from any such claim of spam.
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Phaelax
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Posted: 24th Nov 2005 04:56 Edited at: 24th Nov 2005 04:56
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I wasn't stating that TGC was spamming, because I seriously doubt this email is from them. The title just grabs attention.


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Briere
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Posted: 24th Nov 2005 05:01
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yea i know but Ive just noticed that anytime something even the slightest bit negative is posted about TGC the mod squad is on top of it acting like freedom of speech does not exist anymore

Infact ill probably be harassed and banned now for this!
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Jeku
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Posted: 24th Nov 2005 05:22
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Fixxer - What in the 9 hells are you talking about?

Phaelax - I honestly think these spam emails randomly choose popular domain names for the addresses to make them seem more legit.

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BearCDPOLD
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Posted: 24th Nov 2005 06:01
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Fixxer, I might just harass you for saying something weird like that.

Just kidding.
But serously, huh?


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Posted: 24th Nov 2005 08:41
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Hey, I've trolled enough threads in these forums to know that freedom of speech is not a problem here...



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Lukas W
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Posted: 24th Nov 2005 09:08 Edited at: 24th Nov 2005 09:08
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i got this message too



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Arkheii
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Posted: 24th Nov 2005 10:08
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Isn't TGC's new e-mail domain thegamecreators.com already or something?

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Richard Davey
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Posted: 24th Nov 2005 12:16
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Interesting. We've not used that domain name for years now, but we do still own it. Could someone post the full message headers please, screen shots of the To: doesn't show anything useful I'm afraid.

Fat kids always win at see-saw.

The world is full of idiots. But an unusually high percentage seem to appear on my TV screen.
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Richard Davey
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Posted: 24th Nov 2005 12:32
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I'm more interested in the mail server responsible for delivering the messages to them, which while it can be faked, often isn't.

Fat kids always win at see-saw.

The world is full of idiots. But an unusually high percentage seem to appear on my TV screen.
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Posted: 24th Nov 2005 14:25
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Last topic I read about some one complaining about TGC, about 3 or 4 mods ganged up on him with a few insults and then banned him and said maybe he will learn is lesson after a break.

He wasnt breaking anyrules, just expressing his opinion in a clean appropriate manner. This was accusing TGC of sending spam so I figured it might happen again. Luckily it didnt
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OSX Using Happy Dude
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Posted: 24th Nov 2005 14:45
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The two were different - Phaelex recognises that the from address is probably/is spoofed.

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Jeku
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Posted: 24th Nov 2005 18:46
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Quote: "Last topic I read about some one complaining about TGC, about 3 or 4 mods ganged up on him with a few insults and then banned him and said maybe he will learn is lesson after a break."


Link?

One of the main problems is free email systems. Even Gmail is susceptible if you have a generic username.

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Posted: 24th Nov 2005 19:24
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@ Fixxer: if it`s the person I`m thinking of they accused TGC of spamming them and using spyware/installing virii, a stupid and patently untrue claim and the person concerned just wouldn`t shut up even when it was explained by several people that he most likley only had himself to blame (seeing as so many people use this forum with no problems as well), personaly I think some people need to be forced to take a IQ test before they are allowed near a PC or the net

generaly, this forum seems to be favoured by spambots, maybe someone could set up some spurious addys for them to trawl with a spare PC feeding the spam to Spam Asassin or something, I once or twice put up an un-obfusicated mail adresse in a thread and got spam identifiable as originating from here in under 2 days, maybe some disgruntled ex newb like zeccinie14 (he of "books?, don`t need books, books is stupid" fame) points bot`s this way deliberatly or something.



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Posted: 24th Nov 2005 19:35
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http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=54876&b=2

http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=31270&b=2

and others...

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SSS - Thanks for the links, but I can't find where the user was banned and the mods ganged up on him. Must be an exaggeration

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@ Lucas W and Phaelex - those emails are all new versions of the SOBER virus. You cn find information here: http://us.mcafee.com/virusInfo/default.asp?id=description&virus_k=137072&cid=16001

I've received about 15 of these emails

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Posted: 24th Nov 2005 21:32
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i was going to make a compression app that used .dbx standing for dbxtractor but now i can't

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Quote: "SSS - Thanks for the links, but I can't find where the user was banned and the mods ganged up on him. Must be an exaggeration"

There were loads of others - I wasn't going to go through them all

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Posted: 24th Nov 2005 22:11 Edited at: 24th Nov 2005 22:13
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Anyone notice how the ANJL thread was quiety deleted of the main page?

A lock isn't good enough anymore, Richy?


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Quote: "A lock isn't good enough anymore, Richy?"


Not guilty.

Not that it matters that it was trashed mind you

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Posted: 25th Nov 2005 07:55
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i've recieved emails from 3 darkbasic users:
finnmann, phaelax and wigget.
each of these emails are exactly the same:
"hi, ive a new mail adress"
i haven't opened one of them because it seems like a joke to me.

Quote: "Could someone post the full message headers please, screen shots of the To: doesn't show anything useful I'm afraid."


is this what you want?


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@Lukas W

According to Symantec Security Response the mass mailing worm Sober variant X has been successfully propagating across the web at an extremely fast pace.

http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.sober.x@mm.html
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I've gotten several of the emails now, all identical from different origins. Mainly computer related websites: delphi3d, Sun, Yahoo, msn, apple, wired, among others. Thanks for the heads up Dodo. My AV expired several months back, so I haven't been able to update my definitions. Norton is twice the price now than when I last bought it.


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United States - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia - Verizon Internet Services.

some internet user who dont know what a firewall/av/spyware program is

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This reminds me I havent Checked my email for 1 week. I must have 100's work emails by now:S

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I got an email from db aswell, obvious spam though, I've been getting lots of spam from postmaster at hotmail too. Also I got an email from myself saying that i change dmy email. didn't work at all.

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lol

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failX cough up the headers with the ips to rich or your waisting our time.
get a miriad of ANTIVIRUS programs like avg 7 from download.com
cmon,reread your posts amongst the noobatron diatribe.
dud3 u 1337 pwnc
postman@darkbasic.com in a jpeg without headers is spam in a can and at its worst.

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Quote: "Anyone notice how the ANJL thread was quiety deleted of the main page? "


Actually, the deletion was a mistake. A mod accidentally hit delete.

No, it wasn't me.

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it was me and yeah i made a mistake, im human.
deal

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Naughty indi

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That virus scanner found from the link Dodo posted didn't work. Scanned forever and never found anything. I got about 80 emails from this sitting in my junk mail box.


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@phaelex - if you haven't opened the file then the virus won't have installed itself, therfore AVG won't detect it. This means your not infected

Also, if your using hotmail then the emails aren't stored on your computer...

Part of solving the problem is actually noticing that the problem is there in the first place

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After running that scanner, even though it didn't notify me of finding anything, I'm wondering if it just removes the virii automatically? Because prior to running it, I was getting 30 emails a day with the same message appearing to be caused by that Sober virus. I haven't gotten anymore since then.


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Quote: "@phaelex - if you haven't opened the file then the virus won't have installed itself, therfore AVG won't detect it. This means your not infected

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Wow, Mods sure do fancy this thread. Get back to programming everyone.

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