I noticed it on a couple of my questions over at the Photoshop forum ... but then I saw that this person had joined just this morning and already has 177 posts.  All spam.  user's name is:

nhl20110301  Looks like they've answered all the topics in the Photoshop forum, I don't know about elsewhere. 

I came here because this is the most active forum and I wanted to be sure someone noticed right away!

Boni

Most posts by this "new" user have ~ 22 links to the same website (see image).

SPAM ????????????

WHO IS >>>>>> nhl20110301

**MODS ?????????????  HELP :woot:
**

Thanks for the heads-up Boni.

you clicked the links. facepalm

right. into Decomtamination Geep. off you go. full Malware and AV scans. recommend you use Malware Bytes and Dr Web's Cureit.  

and it's no good yelling here, yell in the community forum, they'll see it there first. 

I have FULL protection.

so did my wife the other day ( running Firefox, AVG, Comodo Firewall, etc) 

she clicked an Image link - nothing more - and was hit by a malware injection attack, that locked her machine up with a fake Antivirus. took me 3 hours to clean out.

so don't think "I have full protection" - thats a fool talking.

Thanks, Boni.  I'm on it.

Please don't respond to spammers in threads.  It makes more posts I have to delete.

@ Kaibach

Hmmm ... "thanks" for that accolade. ........

Mat 5:22

Geep, if you could do me a favor, and find the threads you've posted in following the spammer with the screenshot, and delete those posts, that would help me a lot.  I have to manually delete the threads, as well as your posts with the screenshots. 

I will delete as many as I can.

It's been TOO long ... Can NOT delete.

BUT ....................... Make me a Mod and I'll DO IT !

thanks!

JenX .......... sorry ... it's been too long .... I can not delete any BUT

Make me a MOd and I'll delete all of 'em.

cheers,
dr geep
;=]

Don't worry about it.  I'll delete the ones I find.  thnx.

In truth, I think the Doc should be a Mod.

@ JenX

Nice work Jen ....... but .......

..... there are still 18 posts by "UnoWho" that need to be "GONE." 

Forums affected:

Blacksmith
3DS Max

Bryce

**... Want a list of 'em? ... :biggrin:
**

Thanks.

cheers,
dr geep <------------ would like to be a Mod
;=]

Quote - so did my wife the other day ( running Firefox, AVG, Comodo Firewall, etc) 

 

she clicked an Image link - nothing more - and was hit by a malware injection attack, that locked her machine up with a fake Antivirus. took me 3 hours to clean out.

so don't think "I have full protection" - thats a fool talking.

Since she knows what it looks like when it happens (it's usually the same - click an image and voila - the common adware warning reports telling you it's found something bad, etc.) have her do the 3 finger salute - ctrl/alt/del  - Windows Task Manager will pop up and under applications quickly highlight whatever browser is running and click End Task. Then do a scan if you like but I've found it usually prevents adware from installing itself in your temporary internet folders if your fast enough. Show her, too, what the installed scanner looks like so she'll see the foreign adware scanner is not the same.

I see these especially with celebrity image searches. So that's when to be the most on alert.

Also, she should be only surfing the web as a user with limited privileges. It cuts down on the risk of something getting into her/your system and roosting and it's also easier to clean out the varmints from the admin login. When you finally reopen the browser go to your homepage and do not restore the session that suddenly ended - nuf said.

Kevin

I second the nomination of Geep for Moderator.

I daresay geep will make short work of these nefarious spammers. as usual, I missed all the spam msgs.

If you're serious, Dr. Geep, email a resume to admin@renderosity.com.  We'll start  you out as a coordinator, just like everyone else.

Quote - In truth, I think the Doc should be a Mod.

Yes.

Jen you may already know this, however ban his IP address too (he or it must have broadband to delivery so much crap).  Jan

I don't do the banning, admin does ;)  The longest I can ban someone is for 7 days ;)

They've taken care of him, though. 

Quote - If you're serious, Dr. Geep, email a resume to admin@renderosity.com.  We'll start  you out as a coordinator, just like everyone else.

JenX ... email sent ... the ball is in your court.

Do you pay minimum wage? :lol: (jk)

cheers,
dr geep
;=]

P.S. ...  to those who gave me a vote of confidence ... Thank you. :biggrin:

Nope ;)  Forum/site staff is a volunteer job, meaning unpaid.  That's been in every announcement for "we're looking for help" posts since I can remember ;)

Quote - Nope ;)  Forum/site staff is a volunteer job, meaning unpaid.  That's been in every announcement for "we're looking for help" posts since I can remember ;)

I knew that .............. did you not see my :lol: and (jk) ??? :biggrin: (just kidding)

OR ... How 'bout I get a free gallery posting everyday, huh, huh, huh?

P.S. Please do not take offense ... I'm just havin' sum fun with ya.
P.P.S.  JenX - I really LOVE your signature re: trophies.. :lol:

I'm so glad that our spammer has been delt with and as a pleasant bonus I'm delighted that I gave fodder for Dr. Geep's fun and playful replies!!  Render on Posers!!!

Boni

Don't do it Doc!   While I do believe you'd be excellent, however, shouldering the responsibilities does tend to turn "fun" into "work", and you are clearly one of the communitie's leading champions of the fun side of Poser.  

"If it ain't broke..."

(plus, as a mod, one must tread lightly and be diplomatic, -- which is rarely much fun.)

DISCLAIMER:  ...all of which is certainly not meant to imply that Jen, and our other hardworking mods & coordinators here, are not still regarded as wild, fun-filled, creative party animals!

As a moderator at another website, it really doesn't take the fun out of anything and one does have the satisfaction of sending spammers to Haydes where the site god can destroy them.  Jan

Quote - Don't do it Doc!   While I do believe you'd be excellent, however, shouldering the responsibilities does tend to turn "fun" into "work", and you are clearly one of the communitie's leading champions of the fun side of Poser.  

"If it ain't broke..."

(plus, as a mod, one must tread lightly and be diplomatic, -- which is rarely much fun.)

Hmmm ................ food for thought ... :rolleyes:

Do you mean ... I would have to be ... (gasp) ... nice? :woot:

Gawsh .......... maybe I should rethink my, um, er, offer, no? :blink:

"Do you mean ... I would have to be ... (gasp) ... nice?"

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Well, I don't think it need go THAT far. ;)

Ok, ........... so then how FAR does it need to go , huh, huh, huh? :blink:

Can't say myself.  But I suspect it does fall somewhere short of the honorable role of a Socratic gadfly?

He's in the Blender forum too, and now w/o even opening any mail or clicking anything from him, I get dozens of russian language emails to my yahoo acct...

Thank god for their spam filter =/

I think he's scooping emails too, shoot that bastard...

There is a new one this morning.  lesterghaner231 he's just started in the Photoshop forum, I've site mailed JenX already.  there is only 7 instances so far.

Thanks, Boni, I'm looking right now (sorry, late start today for me!)

Keep track of the IP addresses and see if any are the same.  jan

I doubt they're IP-based attacks, and anyone running a smart bot is running them from a place where several people are sharing an IP stream (wrong word, but it's morning, and my coffee maker is broke).  All they are is bots.  Once they get past the front door, they spam until they peter out.  This bot seemed to stop at 2, lol.

I wish I knew more about this type of stuff, man do they get over on us =/

So did we shoot anyone yet =)

Not sure about shooting. But it wouldn't surprise me if our programmers were pretty good shots ;)

What's that? Your programmers should be shot? That's not nice. :tt2:

Um, no.

If a person helpfully answers 177 questions then more power to them, if they spammed the forum with off topic nonsense then you are right they are spamming.