Comments | ageless_aislynn: Rootkit warning through embedded spam videos in comments

ageless_aislynn

Rootkit warning through embedded spam videos in comments

Jul 24, 2012 15:43

I've gotten two spam comments in my creative comm in the past few days that had embedded Youtube videos in them. I thought they were just nuisances and deleted/blocked them without much further thought but it turns out that they have a risk with them ( Read more... )

argh, o_o, literally angry with rage

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bas_math_girl July 24 2012, 23:45:43 UTC

I've had them post a link in a comments that they then immediately delete. I think I managed to avoid being damaged too. Phew!

ageless_aislynn July 25 2012, 08:06:38 UTC

I hate how these bad people are ALWAYS trying to find new ways to wreck our computers! *very, very angry face* >:[

So glad that yours is okay! *hugs* ♥!

develish1 July 25 2012, 03:00:08 UTC

Thanks for the warning love :)

I've seen two of these recently, in replies to my posts in various comms, and have used the "delete and report as spam" option for both since they clearly are spam as they don;t relate in any way to the posts themselves, but it never occurred to me there could be additional risks involved.

ageless_aislynn July 25 2012, 08:08:01 UTC

You're very welcome, hon. ;) I know, I was really shocked to find out that there could possibly be a threat attached to these things! I certainly hope that nobody gets hit by anything so I figured the best thing I could do to help was pass the info along, just in case. ;)

*hugs* ♥!

katje0711 July 25 2012, 04:25:42 UTC

That's exactly what I'd been getting. I even received that crap two times on the same post in a comm I left years ago. I rejoined and deleted all my posts there so I'd stop getting that. Ugh.

ageless_aislynn July 25 2012, 08:08:51 UTC

Ugh, these things are annoying enough of their own but to have them actually potentially contain a threat? That just sucks even worse! >:[

*is not amused just like your icon* ;)

*hugs* ♥!

katje0711 July 25 2012, 15:04:56 UTC

That's why those assholes do it. They are trying to cause havoc. They don't give a shit. They want to ruin things for people.

sapphire_child July 26 2012, 12:32:40 UTC

I've gotten them too actually. Will make sure I do a full scan again just in case... :\

ageless_aislynn July 27 2012, 00:40:14 UTC

It's really annoying. >:[ Hopefully your computer will be fine, though. :)

raktajinos July 26 2012, 15:02:38 UTC

theres a virus attached to those things? WTF. I clicked on the link one time just to see what video they are sending me to...so I should probably run a virus scan. I need a virus scanner first; I have a mac and there are so few good ones out there for mac. I use AVG on my PC, but AVG doesn't do a mac version le sigh.

And I got 15 of those spam videos last week alone. And like old posts! Really old. People suck

ageless_aislynn July 27 2012, 00:42:28 UTC

They were on some of my really old posts, too. :S It makes you wonder why they would go back that far to post their spam. :S

Anyway, hopefully nothing will have hit you. *fingers crossed*