So, will the PM indicator ever go away?

half fast bankr

half fast bankr

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or are we just stuck with a non-existant, undeletable PM?

Wonder how that got through anyway. Any time I try to send more than 1 PM in a minute, the sys stops me.
 
half fast bankr said:
or are we just stuck with a non-existant, undeletable PM?

Wonder how that got through anyway. Any time I try to send more than 1 PM in a minute, the sys stops me.
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http://forums.azbilliards.com/showpost.php?p=1350810&postcount=5

I'm not sure if you guys missed this or not, but there was some issue with hacked accounts and some malicious person sending XXX messages with a link to a site with trojans. The mods have taken care of this, all you have to do is delete the message.
 
You shouldn't be stuck with it. When I checked mine, I just had a PM that was dated 1969. It was under "Older PMs" or something like that. It was below all of my other PMs. I just checked the box next to it, and clicked delete under the action pull down menu.

Hope this helps.
 
DukeOfAim said:
You shouldn't be stuck with it. When I checked mine, I just had a PM that was dated 1969. It was under "Older PMs" or something like that. It was below all of my other PMs. I just checked the box next to it, and clicked delete under the action pull down menu.

Hope this helps.
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It helped, thanks.
 
suckershot said:
http://forums.azbilliards.com/showpost.php?p=1350810&postcount=5

I'm not sure if you guys missed this or not, but there was some issue with hacked accounts and some malicious person sending XXX messages with a link to a site with trojans. The mods have taken care of this, all you have to do is delete the message.
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There is no message!... It just says there is. The indicator shows 1 unread message... But... There is no message.
 
Bigjohn said:
There is no message!... It just says there is. The indicator shows 1 unread message... But... There is no message.
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Right...there was no message for me either by the time I got to it, just a blank placeholder with a date. I couldn't open the "message", because as you say, it wasn't there. There is however still a place for it, and a check box next to it, which you can check and delete using the drop down box and the Go button. Hopefully that helps.
 
Learn to read

Scott Lee said:
So what? Be patient...wait a minute, and send another PM. What's the big deal?:rolleyes:

Scott Lee
www.poolknowledge.com
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So what, so nothing. It was a curiousity about how someone got us all when it normally stops any en mass messages. I could care less about having to wait a minute. Thanks for your constructive thoughts though...
 
half fast bankr said:
So what, so nothing. It was a curiousity about how someone got us all when it normally stops any en mass messages. I could care less about having to wait a minute. Thanks for your constructive thoughts though...
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1) There's no evidence that whoever sent all these notes DIDN'T WAIT one minute between each one. :P

2) They all have a date of 12/31/1969. When was the last time you sent a PM that had a date of 40 years in the past?

These spam notes weren't sent like you and I send PMs. Someone put a script together and ran it from the outside, hijacking the normal PM-sending process. This is why the dates are all ancient - because that date is likely the default date used when NO date is supplied (which is likely what happens when a user sends a normal PM).

AZB uses vBulletin, which is a widely used forum package. I'm guessing someone simply went through the code for vBulletin, identified a weakness, and exploited it. I imagine AZB isn't the only vBulletin-using site that has been hit with PM-spam attacks.
 
^^^ Agreed. I was unaware of the specifics of the other PM's, just that a bunch went out. I'm no IT guy, just surprised we all got hit.
 
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