8 Replies Latest reply on Feb 20, 2016 7:59 PM by Kelef Man

Have I or SW Forums been smurfed or hacked?

Kelef Man Oct 24, 2015 6:39 PM

hei'ya guys-

not too sure about this one, but-

just wondering if anybody else has got this happen-

or know what is going on

I got a bunch of these in my inbox from "SW Forums"

and trusting my Firewall and AV settings I dared to see the body of the mail

mainly this below

with about 20 lines- apparently repetitions

the "View the full discussion" takes me not to the discussion but-

to the jive logon page- this is not usual behaviour for this link

so I didn't logon through this

I tried a different email from SW Forums-

and followed the "View the full discussion"

and viola normal link and behaviour

so 'long story short' I deleted them all

and if any appear, now or the future,

they shall get the same treatment

any advice, thoughts or knowledge welcome-

so have a good'n kelef

Re: Have I or SW Forums been smurfed or hacked?

Dennis Bacon Oct 24, 2015 8:06 PM (in response to Kelef Man)

Hello Kelef... I'm almost hesitant to respond. I haven't had anything like that in my inbox. You are talking about on your computer, not only in your SW Forum inbox? Spammers have posted many times on the forum today, clogging it up, but thankfully someone has cleared that up. I get very few SW emails in my personal inbox do to the way I have my forum preferences set up.

Good luck Man!
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  Thomas Morgan-Witts Oct 24, 2015 8:47 PM (in response to Dennis Bacon)
  
  Someone spammed the forums a bunch. I cleaned up a few of them, or at least attempted to by reporting as spam, other people probably did similar things.
  
  It looks like it's something that's been happening on a bunch of forums, at least going by the same text showing up. Might not be the same people or directly related, but it's definitely someone doing weirdness to the forums for some reason.
  
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    Kelef Man Oct 24, 2015 10:48 PM (in response to Thomas Morgan-Witts)
    
    hei'ya Thomas @Thomas_Morgan-Witts,
    thnx for your attention and reply-
    as indicated in my previous reply to @Dennis_Bacon
    it appears to be cleared up at this time of posting
    and thnx for your "reporting as spam"- now there's a thing
    after over 10 years? around this forum
    and a (hopefully) contributing (posting any how's) for 4ish? years
    (my memory is that bad, I can give myself a surprise party)
    I've never/don't know how to report as "spam/or downright annoyingly wrong" posts
    maybe we should follow other types of forums with perhaps a "un-awesome" button
    so it's thnx to it's you and other responders the spammers are gone
    thnx for your reply Thomas
    have a good'n kelef
    
    PS same as same as "@ Mention" link not working - go figure
    
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      Deepak Gupta Oct 25, 2015 1:26 AM (in response to Kelef Man)
      
      Kelef Man works for me.
      
      Those were spammer, so best is to report them as spam as soon as you see them. Use the "Report Abuse" button on right side of post under actions.
      
      And delete all the emails from your inbox
      
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        Kelef Man Oct 25, 2015 1:38 AM (in response to Deepak Gupta)
        
        hei'ya DG, Deepak Gupta
        thnx for the heads-up on reporting spam-
        honest, honest I will pay more attention
        DG on point as usual dude
        thnx and have a good'n kelef
        
        PS and the "@ Mention" button's back
        
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  Kelef Man Oct 24, 2015 10:26 PM (in response to Dennis Bacon)
  
  hei'ya @Dennis_Bacon ,
  thanx for your reply
  yes-ish on my computor- that is in my email account
  I very rarely need to go to the SW Forum inbox
  as you can see from the scrnshts
  they appear to originate only from "Modeling and Assemblies" forum-
  and in fairly rapid succession - that gave my memory a little jolt
  maybe about a year ago (before the new look forums) I think this happened before
  but by the time I was aware or looked into it DG @Deepak_Gupta had posted,
  and it appeared to be resolved- by the good guys moderators and super-users
  well at the time of this posting
  it appears to have cleared up- whoopi
  thnx again for your response Dennis
  have a good'n dude kelef
  
  PS "@ Mention" link not working - go figure
  
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Re: Have I or SW Forums been smurfed or hacked?

John Stoltzfus Oct 26, 2015 9:07 AM (in response to Kelef Man)

Kelef -

Hacked or smurfed -
Because you're a special guy
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  Kelef Man Feb 20, 2016 7:59 PM (in response to John Stoltzfus)
  
  hmm, am I that special- really
  
  oh yes I am
  
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