Joined: 17 Mar 2002 Posts: 10204 Location: The Land Beyond O'Hare
Posted: Fri May 08, 2009 6:10 am Post subject: Who is Prolificus?
I received a private message from someone named "prolificus." It was a link to a Cialis site. It was unsolicited, unneeded, and unappreciated. Whoever you are, "prolificus," you have my most transient regards. _________________ Jim Hatfield
Joined: 09 Jun 2002 Posts: 63 Location: Jeff Anderson
Posted: Fri May 08, 2009 6:26 am Post subject: Re: Who is Prolificus?
Jim,
Ditto.
Jeff
jhatpro wrote:
I received a private message from someone named "prolificus." It was a link to a Cialis site. It was unsolicited, unneeded, and unappreciated. Whoever you are, "prolificus," you have my most transient regards.
Joined: 22 Nov 2001 Posts: 2533 Location: Cope, IN
Posted: Fri May 08, 2009 6:44 am Post subject:
Same here. I think it is time for this nut to go... _________________ Dr. Albert L. Lilly, III DM
Artist/Clinician for Vincent Bach Trumpets (Conn-Selmer)
Principal Trumpet, Hendricks Symphony (Avon, IN)
Arranger/Composer; Lilly Music
I got a PM from that P.O.S. this morning too, disguised as something from "Forum Administration." Then, trustingly clicking on the link I am directed to the sexual enhancement ad.
Joined: 07 Jan 2003 Posts: 567 Location: New Mexico
Posted: Fri May 08, 2009 9:35 am Post subject:
Happened to me today too. This is a serious invasion into the running of this forum. If we can't trust that we would only get a pm from another member or perhaps even the admin., why have the ability to receive pm's at all. I won't click on such messages anymore. It could enable someone to infect your computer with a virus.
Regards,
NMex _________________ Brasspire 923 LT
ACB TA-2
Everyone should train themselves to look in the status bar of their browser to see where a link actually takes you before clicking. I see *.ru, I know it's bad news.
Joined: 05 Oct 2004 Posts: 643 Location: Givat Shmuel, Israel
Posted: Sat May 09, 2009 12:33 am Post subject:
Got the same one yesterday. I have the WOT firefox extension - it lets you know the website's ratings and it did - all categories bad. It shows you bad ratings before you see the web page itself.
It could well be a software program which posts messages automatically to users of forums, not one that is sent manually. _________________ Michael Greenberg
4:51 AM EST and Prolificus is still logged on (why am I still logged on at 4:51 AM EST??). _________________ -fred
Lots of horns available to try and buy (or just try) in the Florida Treasure Coast area (Especially Kanstul trumpets) - PM if you'd like to stop by.
Joined: 12 Aug 2005 Posts: 407 Location: Exeter, UK
Posted: Sat May 09, 2009 3:07 am Post subject: Re: Who is Prolificus?
jhatpro wrote:
I received a private message from someone named "prolificus."
Me too (it's actually "Profilicus"). Grrr. Perhaps the system that works on Marketplace (no listings without a certain number of forum postings) should apply to PMs to prevent any more spamming like this.
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