johno123123 Posted January 4 Share Posted January 4 I posted a question on this board years ago, ever since I received a fair degree of parasitic spam from Kumar and Umar, has this site been hacked or something? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators nukecad Posted January 4 Moderators Share Posted January 4 With all the sites that you must have visited since "years ago" what is it that now makes you think this one may be a source? Everybody with a computer gets spam, that's why you have spam filters on your email. You are never going to stop it, just delete the spam that gets past the filters and move on. *** Out of Beer Error ->->-> Recovering Memory *** Worried about 'Tracking Files'? Worried about why some files come back after cleaning? See this link:https://community.ccleaner.com/topic/52668-tracking-files/?tab=comments#comment-300043 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johno123123 Posted January 5 Author Share Posted January 5 The emails make reference to a post I created on this site Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators hazelnut Posted January 5 Moderators Share Posted January 5 Can you give the full website address of that site please because ideasccleanercom does not exist. The live one is https://ideas.ccleaner.com But it is full of spam and not really worth visiting. The CCleaner administrators do not monitor it and I believe it may be outsourced to a different company. Support contact https://support.ccleaner.com/s/contact-form?language=en_US&form=general or support@ccleaner.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators nukecad Posted January 5 Moderators Share Posted January 5 Mmm, When did you first start receiving these spam emails? As you have only just posted about it then I asume that it was failry recently. "Save configuration preferences #82" is a topic on the site that Hazelnut has linked to above. It is 4-years old, and is full of spam. I would strongly advise avoiding that 'ideas' site. As Hazelnut says above that site is not a part of this forum, and we ourselves have no moderator access to it, or control over it. Have you ever participated on that #82 topic? The topic itself is full of spamlinks (as is the whole of that site) - have you clicked on one of those links? In particular although it is originally a 4-year old thread a "Umar kahn" has been posting spamlinks there for the last fortnight, so have you recently clicked one of those spamlinks? (Have you actually been foolish enough to give one of those spamlinked sites your email address?) *** Out of Beer Error ->->-> Recovering Memory *** Worried about 'Tracking Files'? Worried about why some files come back after cleaning? See this link:https://community.ccleaner.com/topic/52668-tracking-files/?tab=comments#comment-300043 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johno123123 Posted January 5 Author Share Posted January 5 (edited) No, I've been receiving spam from that site for close on 12 months and only now have decided to do something about it. I am the OP of the thread, I've no idea how I found the site, so now you are telling me it has nothing to do with ccleaner, that's great. I haven't clicked on any of the links, nor revisited the site in years. https://ideas.ccleaner.com/82 Edited January 5 by johno123123 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators hazelnut Posted January 5 Moderators Share Posted January 5 Technically it was an ideas site for users to suggest things for CCleaner and it was put online by Administrators, but no one is looking after it. We have asked, and asked, for it to be removed from the Ccleaner forum because it is just a spam machine. We have been asking/begging them to take it down for almost a year now but so far they have done nothing. Support contact https://support.ccleaner.com/s/contact-form?language=en_US&form=general or support@ccleaner.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators nukecad Posted January 5 Moderators Share Posted January 5 1 hour ago, johno123123 said: No, I've been receiving spam from that site for close on 12 months and only now have decided to do something about it. I am the OP of the thread, Light dawns and I believe I know what is going on; and more importantly how to stop it. Looking again, those emails that you posted look like automatic notifications from the ideas site. (The "via ideasccleanercom" gave me the clue). ie. 'Umar Kahn', and others are 'liking' your post there, (the heart button?) which is causing the site to email you a notification that someone has liked your post. And, because you didn't change the notification settings in your account, it's sending you a new one everytime that someone 'likes' it. I suggest that you go to the site and login, (if you still remember the name and password you used). Click on your profile button (top right) and then 'Account Settings'. At the bottom 'Delete Account', and then 'Delete forever'. If you no longer have an account there then it can't send you anything. *** Out of Beer Error ->->-> Recovering Memory *** Worried about 'Tracking Files'? Worried about why some files come back after cleaning? See this link:https://community.ccleaner.com/topic/52668-tracking-files/?tab=comments#comment-300043 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johno123123 Posted January 5 Author Share Posted January 5 Thanks for the info, I was struggling to find any login page, I got it and disabled notifications and have deleted my account. And special thanks hazelnut I've been scratching my head wondering why I couldn't find that particular thread on this site Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators nukecad Posted January 6 Moderators Share Posted January 6 That will have cured it. You are gone from there now, and the original post in thread #82 is now showing as empty with "Deleted User". Just looking a bit closer it wasn't even 'Likes' that were doing it, it was simply when anyone made a reply to that thread. If you look at the text of the 2 emails that you got sent, and then the text of the last 2 posts made there, they are identical. The site was emailing you whatever new got posted on the thread that you had started. *** Out of Beer Error ->->-> Recovering Memory *** Worried about 'Tracking Files'? Worried about why some files come back after cleaning? See this link:https://community.ccleaner.com/topic/52668-tracking-files/?tab=comments#comment-300043 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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