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04-01-2009, 20:39
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surreal - yahoo-AOL IM warning
I have a yahoo account for a couple of people I talk to on IM. I'm used to getting the odd weird Spam through it for women offering me naked pictures etc but tonight I had a real weird one....
It was from "Rindy" which I thought a little strange as our good old Garinda is on MSN on my IM buddy list. Obviously on Linux I could happily click it in no fear, it was a spam link but I found it interesting or a weird co-incidence that it 'linked' me and "rindy" which is how I usually refer to Garinda on accyweb.
So, this is a little more than your usual " Bank email" etc, this is either a real random co-incidence or someone tracking references from Accyweb onto IM.
Be careful!
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04-01-2009, 20:51
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Re: surreal - yahoo-AOL IM warning
Or, Rindy is fed up having all his links to specialised footwear removed as spam from accyweb and is now going through his address book and hoping the direct approach will win him a little sympathy and maybe he'll finally be able to get rid of that container full of seventies 'glam' boots he bought for a snip on e-bay.
Having said that, guess whose msn has just sent me a link?
I'm not going to open it, I think Rindy may have been hijacked!
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04-01-2009, 21:00
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Re: surreal - yahoo-AOL IM warning
I pm'd him tonight to change his MSN password as I have been getting dodgy links sent to me from his MSN account for a couple of days - you sure it was not from his MSN account?
Changing his password will stop this. I have seen it several times - my account was compromised a while back as well.
Anyone wanting to change their MSN password has to do it using the link below as their is no way to do it in the MSN client program itself.
Change MSN (and Windows Live) Password
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04-01-2009, 21:10
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Re: surreal - yahoo-AOL IM warning
pretty sure it was Yahoo/AOL but as I use a single client I may be wrong.....
<just doing soem stuff on Julies PC hence it showing as her )
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04-01-2009, 21:33
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Re: surreal - yahoo-AOL IM warning
Thats why I was asking you. I think it will have been MSN. One of Sam's friends just sent him a link and she is not online either. It is a common MSN problem
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04-01-2009, 21:38
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Re: surreal - yahoo-AOL IM warning
It is a virus on MSN, I got two sent from Jen who got it sent from Rindy.
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04-01-2009, 21:41
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Re: surreal - yahoo-AOL IM warning
Its happening too often and a few I know have been hit as well. Ruddy thing!!! Getting fed up with it and all the crap that MS has had run through it lately.
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04-01-2009, 21:43
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Re: surreal - yahoo-AOL IM warning
*Cough*
LINUX
*cough*
come on, you lot, this is getting silly!!!!!
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04-01-2009, 21:45
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Re: surreal - yahoo-AOL IM warning
As you are all people who are not on my msn list, and I havnt had any, sounds like a problem with rindy's msn!
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04-01-2009, 21:46
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Re: surreal - yahoo-AOL IM warning
Now Spuggie is back we are talking on msn a lot ........ and it keeps coming up a message from rindy .... with a link on it ...... now i dont click on it ... and when that happens rindy is offline...... but also it comes up that im signed in on another computer ... and kicks me off msn and then goes to spuggie ... Have changed my password for msn, running a virus check as well and once thats done i'll run spybot.
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04-01-2009, 22:02
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Re: surreal - yahoo-AOL IM warning
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Originally Posted by entwisi
*Cough*
LINUX
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come on, you lot, this is getting silly!!!!!
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When I convert my daughter it will be easier but I think its time for a dual boot set up with XP n Ubuntu.
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04-01-2009, 22:08
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Re: surreal - yahoo-AOL IM warning
Never had this problem with my Atari 800xl, hmmm, now what were the guys that built that called and which superb machine did they go on to create?
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04-01-2009, 22:13
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Re: surreal - yahoo-AOL IM warning
Do not click links from people unles you chat with them and they tell you what it is.
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04-01-2009, 23:09
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Re: surreal - yahoo-AOL IM warning
I hope nobody thinks that is how my PC got problems. I'm not very PC literate but I do know not to open links like this one
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05-01-2009, 11:57
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Re: surreal - yahoo-AOL IM warning
Quote:
Originally Posted by entwisi
I have a yahoo account for a couple of people I talk to on IM. I'm used to getting the odd weird Spam through it for women offering me naked pictures etc but tonight I had a real weird one....
It was from "Rindy" which I thought a little strange as our good old Garinda is on MSN on my IM buddy list. Obviously on Linux I could happily click it in no fear, it was a spam link but I found it interesting or a weird co-incidence that it 'linked' me and "rindy" which is how I usually refer to Garinda on accyweb.
So, this is a little more than your usual " Bank email" etc, this is either a real random co-incidence or someone tracking references from Accyweb onto IM.
Be careful!
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I've only just seen this thread thanks to Neil, as I'm so un-techie I don't normally look in here.
Last Friday I received a messag eon MSN from someoe known to me. It said 'check out my photos from New Year's Eve. To see the photos you had to re-enter your name and MSN password, which because I was stil half asleep l foolishly did.
I never open mail from people I don't know, but was taken in by this because it appeared to be from someone I know and trust, and seemed fairly plausible...well it did whilst I was still so dozy.
Beware, and I apologise to people who thought I'd got a job peddling porn.
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