Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Myspace phishing alert: false positive

Myspace did something stupid again. They automatically blocked my account, labeling it as a phished account. They think I entered my log in details elsewhere on the internet and it was collected by spammers.

Problem is I didn't. And now they want me to change my password again?



The false positive is because I replied to a message that was from someone who was phished. It contained a link that was obviously trying to install a virus. I was telling them to get their account fixed. The reply automatically contains a quote of the message and ergo the virus link. Because I sent a message containing a virus link, myspace has automatically declared me a phished account.