Bhakti Mimulus Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 I am set up to receive regular replies from this forum on topics that interest me. Yesterday, I received an email about a discussion but when I clicked on the link, instead of taking me to the forum, it rounted me to the SL sign in page. Usually, it rountes me directly to the forum, and from there, if I want to comment I have to sign in. I was very suspicious that I was routed to the sign in page where it wanted my password, etc. I went to the forum to look for the conversation, and could not find it. I did not try exhaustively to track down the conversation, but I did not sign in. So, just a reminder to be careful. BM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SidQuibley Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 Looks very much like it, I would never sign in under those circumstances. There have also been a lot of those phishing attempts put up through web links in group chat inworld and I know someone who had her account hijacked that way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qie Niangao Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 I kind of doubt it, but it's not actually anything one needs to speculate about: you can examine the email and find out the actual destination of the link. If it's going to somewhere in the secondlife.com domain, I don't think it's phishing. Of course, that doesn't preclude there also being a keylogger already on your machine, watching everything you do. So, you know, feeling relieved about the phishing thing would be optional. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bhakti Mimulus Posted February 12, 2014 Author Share Posted February 12, 2014 I would always speculate, and rather than rely on my checking the email, just delete it. BM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bhakti Mimulus Posted February 12, 2014 Author Share Posted February 12, 2014 I get about three emails per day that look like this, Hi Bhakti Mimulus, talpha508 (Recognized Resident) posted a new Message in Mesh on 02-11-2014 10:44 PM: Goa FemaLe ℰScoℛT0⑨8⑦➊⑨3➊38⑨ ℰScoℛTs in Goa This is pretty plainly something that I will not reply to, or open. It is the sneaky ones that worry me, this one just pisses me off and I don't even want to know where it actually came from because I know I did not respond to an escort on the forum..maybe in SL, but not in the forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freya Mokusei Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 Er, that's because you're subscribed to a forum (on here - the link above resolves to this domain - http://community.secondlife.com) that has Mumbai/Goa/Dubai Escort spam posted to it regularly. You couldn't find that conversation because it was spam, the moderators removed it. I would recommend against subscribing to a forum in this way. You're getting copies of every message posted to that forum. This is not phishing, this is user error. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Venus Petrov Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 Even an extra 'i' in the URL can reroute you to a site you would not rather visit. So, examine those links very carefully. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bhakti Mimulus Posted February 12, 2014 Author Share Posted February 12, 2014 This is not the one that I could not find, I never tried. How am I supposed to know some of these forum have spam? Why do you jump to something like 'user error'. Why not try to be helpful instead of nasty egotistical? Its this kind of response that makes me ignore a lot of these forums. BM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irihapeti Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 about your original question the anti-spam facility for this forum software activates when the site is under attack from a bot spammer. If you post during an attack then you get caught up in the anti-spam detector automagically when that happens then you (your IP address) gets re-directed by the anti-spam software to the actual LL login page. this happens often bc of all the attacks on here after logging in again then your IP address is purged from the anti-spam list and you good to go. Most times. However can take a while for your IP address to get purged so can get re-directed a few times in the same period Just check that when re-directed that is actually a real secondlife.com address and you be ok Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kenbro Utu Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 irihapeti wrote: the anti-spam facility for this forum software What are you smoking? If this software had any real type of spam protection, we would not even know about it. All they do is wait for the spam to fill the forums, and then delete them manually afterwards. There is no "anti-spam redirection" going on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irihapeti Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 Kenbro Utu wrote: irihapeti wrote: the anti-spam facility for this forum software What are you smoking? If this software had any real type of spam protection, we would not even know about it. All they do is wait for the spam to fill the forums, and then delete them manually afterwards. There is no "anti-spam redirection" going on. yes there is is how come your IP address is redirected to the login page whenever you either click a link to, or even when directly enter the forum url into the browser bar. your IP address is on the temp chitlist. this forum software does this. Can go back into this forums and read all about it. Was happening to lots of regulars on here circa 2011 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tari Landar Posted February 14, 2014 Share Posted February 14, 2014 irihapeti wrote: Kenbro Utu wrote: irihapeti wrote: the anti-spam facility for this forum software What are you smoking? If this software had any real type of spam protection, we would not even know about it. All they do is wait for the spam to fill the forums, and then delete them manually afterwards. There is no "anti-spam redirection" going on. yes there is is how come your IP address is redirected to the login page whenever you either click a link to, or even when directly enter the forum url into the browser bar. your IP address is on the temp chitlist. this forum software does this. Can go back into this forums and read all about it. Was happening to lots of regulars on here circa 2011 Nope. I'm with Kenbro, you're smoking something, and it must be good if what you said really sounded like it made sense when you typed it (hey, been there, done that, it happens ). I was here circa 2011 too Being redirected, which can happen and not always due to a phishing scheme or scam, has absolutely nothing at all to do with what you described as far as anti-spam goes, lol. You can still post just peachy when someone is busy spamming the forums, without problem. Though it's likely your post will get lost in the mix until the spam is gone. People do it all the time. Also, your IP(this, again, doesn't actually make sense IP is not the word you're looking for here, but I digress..) is *not always redirected to the login screen, regardless of when you choose to visit the forums, or how(ie. via a link clicked or a direct url paste into your browser). You'll be redirected if you're not already logged in, and try to reply or make a post. That's pretty much common sense and has nothing at all to do with spam protection either, but rather the fact that you need to be logged in to finalize those actions. To simply read the forums, you don't have to be logged in. I'm rarely logged in, unless I have posted or intend to. I browse the forums all the time, via links clicked, direct urls, etc....I never get directed to the login screen until I want to do something that these forums require me to be logged in to do...ie., post. While that may be anecdotal evidence alone, I'd be willing to wager money that this is how the forums work for everyone, because this is how they're set up to function (barring something nasty being on your machine that shouldn't be there, of course, in which case, anything at all could go differently, or unexpected, but that still has nothing to do with the functionality of the site) I believe you may be confusing quite a few concepts and making things up as you go along because you think they sound good together. Your right and your left hand are not going to meet here, though, they're both doing different things. The two posts you made are in no way related. These forums don't even HAVE an anti-spam facility. One way to easily tell this is that actual people have to go in and remove the spam when it happens, as well as the fact that it can happen in the blink of an eye with little to no work on the part of the spammer. There is nothing in place to actually prevent spam, or remove it automatically-hence why people hate it so much, why repeat offenders don't go away, and why many believe LL has dropped the ball entirely on that matter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freya Mokusei Posted February 14, 2014 Share Posted February 14, 2014 User error is correctly attributing the cause of the problem as you subscribed to these Emails yourself. I was clarifying that you're not at risk of attack or compromised data based on what I've seen. There is probably an 'unsubscribe' link somewhere around, maybe at the bottom of the Emails that you've been getting. I was being helpful, but you'll have better luck ignoring these forums by stopping those messages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bhakti Mimulus Posted February 14, 2014 Author Share Posted February 14, 2014 What the heck do you mean by User Error? All I did was reply to a post, and make my settings in this forum so that I would receive notification if someone replied to my post. So, where was my error in getting spammed? I have double checked all of my user settings on this forum and I don't see anywhere where any posting that I have made has been spammed or that forum closed. How many times have I even used this forum, not that much. So what error did this user make? THis is where I wish you would be helpful instead of just saying 'user error'. Say something like, oh, you should check this because maybe you did this... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qie Niangao Posted February 14, 2014 Share Posted February 14, 2014 Well, this thread has gotten pretty confusing. Part of the confusion came when you mentioned that you;ve been getting emails notifying you of new posts -- where, it turns out, those new posts are in fact spam on the forum (but probably cleared away by the time you check the forum itself). And yeah, probably best not to follow any links in those. And, if they annoy you, there's not much choice but to disable getting those email notifications of new posts. (I think you know how to turn those off because you turned them on, but... actually, I have no idea how to help with that; I've never turned those on; it doesn't seem as if it should be difficult, but who knows?) Anyway, the first post in the thread apparently wasn't about those spam-post notifications, but rather (I suspect) about the inscrutable way this forum times-out a login, and what it does when it thinks you should login again. I've been using this forum for as long as it's been around and I still can't divine any rhyme or reason to how it handles that, so if it asked you to login when you didn't expect it... uh... that's our way of welcoming you to the club. Yeah. Yeah, that's it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amber Malifozik Posted February 19, 2014 Share Posted February 19, 2014 I agree totally. There is no anti-spam going on. I really don't know why anyone would even think that. If there is anti-spam software running it is useless and should be delete as a waist or resources. I have like 50 messages from 50 different accounts saying all the same message. Buy my lindens at so and so dot com. If I have 50 of them in my logs and another 32 in my profile messages, you would think thousands of other people have also gotten the same message 50 or more times. If there was anything resembling anti-spam that message would have been caught and delt with rather than put it in my box for the 80th time. to the anti-smap believers... If you think I am joking I can post a screenshot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amber Malifozik Posted February 19, 2014 Share Posted February 19, 2014 circa 2011? Do you really talk like that? To me the word circa belongs after the word established, on a city limits sign or a very old business. Maybe even on a tombstone. Circa is used in places where it means, "I am stupid and can not remember. Definately not ijn places to guess a year you can not remember from circa 3 years ago. <-- see my point I've never in my life heard that word in conversation. Words like "about" or "around" are much more clear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perrie Juran Posted February 19, 2014 Share Posted February 19, 2014 Amber Malifozik wrote: circa 2011? Do you really talk like that? To me the word circa belongs after the word established, on a city limits sign or a very old business. Maybe even on a tombstone. Circa is used in places where it means, "I am stupid and can not remember. Definately not ijn places to guess a year you can not remember from circa 3 years ago. <-- see my point I've never in my life heard that word in conversation. Words like "about" or "around" are much more clear. We could go on a rant about spelling here but we wont. Some of us here are aware of where irihapeti is from and what her native language is. Her name actually is a clue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Czari Zenovka Posted February 19, 2014 Share Posted February 19, 2014 Amber Malifozik wrote: circa 2011? Do you really talk like that? To me the word circa belongs after the word established, on a city limits sign or a very old business. Maybe even on a tombstone. Circa is used in places where it means, "I am stupid and can not remember. Definately not ijn places to guess a year you can not remember from circa 3 years ago. <-- see my point I've never in my life heard that word in conversation. Words like "about" or "around" are much more clear. I actually use the word circa - I wouldn't say a lot, it just depends on the context. I read quite a bit and see the word used regularly so it's not necessarily archaic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kenbro Utu Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 Amber Malifozik wrote: circa 2011? Do you really talk like that? To me the word circa belongs after the word established, on a city limits sign or a very old business. Maybe even on a tombstone. Circa is used in places where it means, "I am stupid and can not remember. Definately not ijn places to guess a year you can not remember from circa 3 years ago. <-- see my point I've never in my life heard that word in conversation. Words like "about" or "around" are much more clear. I made a joke about her smoking something, but where did this cheap shot come from? Circa means "about or around," exactly to the point if you ask me. Your point, by the way, is completely lost on me. As for the intelligence aspect, perhaps you are projecting. Merriam-Webster: cir·ca preposition \ˈsər-kə\ : about or around Full Definition of CIRCA : at, in, or of approximately —used especially with dates<born circa 1600> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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