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[Richard Bassett]

I have received a bunch of what look like fake email notifications of replies to topics on proivrc. They have exactly the same pattern as the real thing.

In my case they appear to be 'from' proivrcc -at- host186.hostmonster.com

They have a link in them with just an ip address. Judging by Google it's a highly-suspect address.

I sure as hell won't be clicking on those links and if you have received anything similar I recommend you don't..

[Rob Donovan]

Hi Richard,

Can you forward me one of the emails (with headers attached), so I can check it out?

"proivrcc -at- host186.hostmonster.com" is the host I use.

Thanks,

Rob.

[Rob Donovan]

Hi,

Ok, this has been sorted out.

What was happening was, I have a test site that I test Proivrc on before I do any updates to the site, it doesnt have a DNS name, its just a IP address.

Some spammer had found that site and registered themselves on it, and then was posting lots of spam posts.

The spanner actually replied to one of the posts Richard has been 'subscribed' to for replies, so the test site sent him an email saying there was a new post, but it used the IP address of the test site rather than 'www.proivrc.com'.

I've removed access to the test site now, so he wont be able to spam any more, and any of the links with the IP address will be disabled and not valid now.

Sorry for any inconvenience, and hopefully its all sorted now.

Thanks for the info / notification of the problem Richard

Rob.