Be wary of links posted by new users...
Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2009 1:40 am
I'm not sure how it slipped past us, but it is a small duty of mine to inform you that a recent user (whose account is pending deletion by the admin team) posted a link to what appears to be 'lmageshack.com' with his personal photo. Unfortunately, the site (spelled in all caps) is LMAGESHACK, and it forwards to a domain in China that immediately attacks your system with a trojan.
If a link looks suspicious, please report it to members of the moderator or admin team. In this case, I know of two user's computers that were attacked (mine and Wingman's), and also recall that Flatline and one other user responded to the particular thread.
So, even though we do our best to catch stuff like this; some bots have well-enough written posts that we give it a thumbs-up before we find out that its really a bot, posting malicious code.
If a link looks suspicious, please report it to members of the moderator or admin team. In this case, I know of two user's computers that were attacked (mine and Wingman's), and also recall that Flatline and one other user responded to the particular thread.
So, even though we do our best to catch stuff like this; some bots have well-enough written posts that we give it a thumbs-up before we find out that its really a bot, posting malicious code.