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pocketpcaddict.com spam overrun

Hi All!
Over the past few months pocketpcaddict.com has been overrun by driver-ant-spam, and the admins seem to have gone dark.
Does anyone have *any* other personal contact info for the site admins other than what's publicly available?
I follow only one forum there and get the daily summary email. One worst day there were *900* posts to that *one* forum. Other days that week there were 200, 400, 600, whatever-hundred. (The past week or so has been a lot lighter; maybe the spammers figured out that readers of a pocketpc site aren't really looking for a pharmacy. LOL!)
About a month ago I wrote to the sites email addresses, contact form page on the site, and domain registrars 'proxy'/private email addresses, about three times each, offering time to help clean things up. No response/reply, and no errors/bounces either.
Over the past week or so I spoke with domain registrar, site host, ICANN, and even google and at&t as they have vested interests. The upshot was that because of the *private* domain registration there is absolutely *no* way to directly contact the admins. (Which I can understand an accept at face value, and though there really oughta be some sort of 'panic button' contact method but that's a totally unrelated topic.)
Digging further I fould a couple of 'higher end' site -participants-, but they had no info about contact with the current admins.
Worst case, I actually half-thought about cracking the site with force and just getting the job done. I'm the kinda person who doesn't sit around and wait for ppl to do things I just *do* it. LOL! Buuuut I decided against that because I could get in faaaar more trouble that it's worth. I also have no experience with anything like that and don't have the time or interest to muck around with it.
So again the question is does anyone have *any* other personal contact info about the pocketpcaddict.com site admins?
Thanks much. Have a day!
Jim
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Mobile Facebook (Not the official app)

I saw this on the market, I hadn't seen it before so I don't know whether it is new or it has just been updated but there are no reviews of it and I can't read the website so I'm not sure what to think of this app really.
http://www.cyrket.com/package/oms.sns.facebook
I haven't purchased it so I don't know if it is any good. Have any of you guys seen this before?
Thanks,
Simon.

Yeah it is new as I just noticed it as well. Anyone wanna take the dive and purchase and post impressions?

hmm based on that one review doesn't seem good :/

probably just another mobile facebook wrapper.

I emailed the Dev, asked him if it's a native app using FB's APIs or a wrapper, and asked for screenshots.
We'll see what he says.

Got a reply:
From Email said:
Hi Jordan,
Mobile Facebook is a native application, not by Browser, which using Facebook APIs,
FBook is a Browser,
Our application is totle different from FBook, we can access Facebook very fast, and also enable user access wall message, phonebook, friends information,
Enable you upload photo, video to Facebook,
Show news feed,
We will find a website to show more information about Mobile Facebook.
Thanks your mails
Regards
Huadong
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He sent me a ton of screenshots of the app in use. Screenshot attachments continue in the next post.

Continued screenshots.
Conclusion: The app doesn't look as pretty as Bloo does, but it looks far more powerful and integrated. I don't know if it's worth the $3.50, though.

I like Babbler myself. The first true native Facebook app.

Is it just me, or are those screenshots totally confusing? It's not the language barrier per-se, but I can't tell what any of those pages are supposed to be showing.
The thing that has me wondering though is, I thought there was no mail API - that's why Bloo and the others don't have mail yet.
Edit: Ok, I downloaded it and took some screenies of my own.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nolageek2/sets/72157621869871714/
My opinion - it does a LOT. But it's kinda fugly and not fun or intuitive to use. I couldn't figure out how to view people's photos or reply to their wall posts, but I only had it for about 10 minutes and decided that I didn't like it enough to keep playing with it.
You could reply to e-mail, that was kind of cool. You couldn't do it from the message-read page though, you had to long-press on the message title on the message-list screen.
Mail is the only thing I saw that this has that Bloo doesn't (I haven't used babble). And with blue it's a LOT easier to comment on walls, photos, etc...
As you can see though, from the screenshots, it's got a LOT of options, so maybe I missed something.

Thanks for the review, nolageek.
If the interface improves, I wouldn't mind trying it. It'd be nice as well if the author could share their hacks with the Bloo and Babbler devs. Unless he's just recoding the HTML from the m.facebook.com site.

i like bloo the best so far, but i'm going to reserve judgment until the official app comes out next week.

nolageek said:
Is it just me, or are those screenshots totally confusing? It's not the language barrier per-se, but I can't tell what any of those pages are supposed to be showing.
The thing that has me wondering though is, I thought there was no mail API - that's why Bloo and the others don't have mail yet.
Edit: Ok, I downloaded it and took some screenies of my own.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nolageek2/sets/72157621869871714/
My opinion - it does a LOT. But it's kinda fugly and not fun or intuitive to use. I couldn't figure out how to view people's photos or reply to their wall posts, but I only had it for about 10 minutes and decided that I didn't like it enough to keep playing with it.
You could reply to e-mail, that was kind of cool. You couldn't do it from the message-read page though, you had to long-press on the message title on the message-list screen.
Mail is the only thing I saw that this has that Bloo doesn't (I haven't used babble). And with blue it's a LOT easier to comment on walls, photos, etc...
As you can see though, from the screenshots, it's got a LOT of options, so maybe I missed something.
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Apps like Babbler and Bloo *could* do mail, but if they did they wouldn't be an officially approved Facebook app, since they wouldn't be following the guidelines of using strictly the API.

Neither of them are an officially approved Facebook app. There is no officially approved Facebook app, and no official Facebook app anyway.
And Babbler originally had mail, but it redirected users to the mobile site. Kind of a botched version. They've since dropped it in favor of pure API access.

kusotare said:
i like bloo the best so far, but i'm going to reserve judgment until the official app comes out next week.
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Whats this about an official app next week now?

I don't like any of the facebook apps, I use the facebook mobile site ESPECIALLY for android.
x.Facebook.com -----Thats the best so far...don't use m.facebook.com
You can do what ever you want there...

Ultimate Chin said:
Whats this about an official app next week now?
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there is rumored to be an official facebook app releasing with the launch of the MT3G, which happens next week. I see this as being strongly possible seeing as facebook, after years of TMO hating, just decided to open up mobile alerts for TMO customers.

It's not just T-Mobile they hate, it's Google as well.

jordanjay29 said:
it's not just t-mobile they hate, it's google as well.
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double hate!!

jordanjay29 said:
Neither of them are an officially approved Facebook app. There is no officially approved Facebook app, and no official Facebook app anyway.
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wrong. there is a difference between an "official" app and an "approved" app. facebook approves apps and puts them on the web site if they follow all of their guidelines for apps. since facebook has announced they are making their own OFFICIAL app, they aren't listing android mobile apps anymore.

SportsFan26 said:
x.Facebook.com -----Thats the best so far...don't use m.facebook.com
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Not made for android. Made for all phones not iphone. But same page. Have you compared that feed to the real site? Its brutal. 1st few items are new, and then it just tosses a bunch of crap in from 24 hours ago or older. For anyone that uses facebook a few times a day, x.facebook is awful. Pretty tabs, but if feed is wrong, useless

Social Networks trying to take over the world?

Have you all noticed that Facebook, twitter, and other networks try to take over the world? Facebook in skyfire now, facebook is everywhere with "like" buttons, Social Networks are forced by freaking Motoblur, people reporting each their step: "I just ate Icecream!" "I just saw some weird dude." "People what to do? I got a ticket!"
Get your butt out of the computer/cellphone and go to the beach watch a sunset! Let your brain free for at least a moment!
While checking email in the morning, I see hundreds of posts from people about what they did on a hourly basis.
So pathetic. After all this I really want to delete facebook and add it to all possible filters.
What is your opinion of such invasion and zombification?

I say xda is better than facebook...
You can meet intellecual minds here
I agree, but they are not taking over the world, they are taking over people who are stupid enough to think that facebook is their life.

+1!
Completely agree.
husam666 said:
I say xda is better than facebook...
You can meet intellecual minds here
I agree, but they are not taking over the world, they are taking over people who are stupid enough to think that facebook is their life.
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+1 to everything already said. I was starting to think i was the only person left in the world who wasn't on Facespace/Mybook etc.
XDA is still the best place for social notworking. In fact i'm notworking right now!

husam666 said:
I say xda is better than facebook...
You can meet intellecual minds here
I agree, but they are not taking over the world, they are taking over people who are stupid enough to think that facebook is their life.
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just dont add the idiots and ppl u dislike ... its simple really if u have some respect for yourself and dont worry about them getting upset at you ... its your life

This is a silly thread, of course they're not going to take over the world
Llama's already have

Its strange how people used to share things such as photos, and sentimental things in real life. And now people cant wait to upload to facebook.
I must confess i'm a twitter addict though (hopefully not in the: "i'm eating a sandwich kinda way")

It's only a fad. I remember the days when Friendster was cool and everyone was on it. Then came MySpace, and in that got canned with Facebook. Once FB floats, investors are gonna put a lot of pressure on the management to monetize their assets (users) and this is gonna push the engineers to their peak frustration. They'll start using codes that users hate, and sooner or later a new social network will start, and the cycle begins anew.

sakai4eva said:
It's only a fad. I remember the days when Friendster was cool and everyone was on it. Then came MySpace, and in that got canned with Facebook. Once FB floats, investors are gonna put a lot of pressure on the management to monetize their assets (users) and this is gonna push the engineers to their peak frustration. They'll start using codes that users hate, and sooner or later a new social network will start, and the cycle begins anew.
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Ha, the first social site I was on was bolt.com and that was 11 years ago. They haven't changed that much. Its just how other feel about them.
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Coldskiesfullofblue said:
Ha, the first social site I was on was bolt.com and that was 11 years ago. They haven't changed that much. Its just how other feel about them.
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And this changes the cycle because...

sakai4eva said:
And this changes the cycle because...
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The cycle doesn't change. Its the same thing with a trendy new presentation. Maybe a single new feature.
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Coldskiesfullofblue said:
The cycle doesn't change. Its the same thing with a trendy new presentation. Maybe a single new feature.
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Why does that sound suspiciously like... an Apple product?

sakai4eva said:
Why does that sound suspiciously like... an Apple product?
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Yeah, pumped full or carcinogens (echo)Steve Jobs?
I'm sure you want your last computer you'll ever use to be pretty.
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It's Web 2.0. Social Networks take over the world. What's the next step?

How you can call this a silly thread when off topic is full of silly/****ty/non sense threads in more than 96% of it´s all content?
In fact this is one of the few interesting threads where even the only posting trolls or jokes made a serious comment! FANTASTIC thread I say!
OT will have to change, seriously if not happens it will die
MacaronyMax said:
This is a silly thread, of course they're not going to take over the world
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Im just getting really annoyed by facebook, twitter, and myspace stuff forced upon me. I install something, there yahoo toolbar forced, or facebook link.
I keep facebook just as an easy connection to friends, but not as my way of life. I go to facebook anytime and i see at least 10 of my friends sitting out there, where 9 out of these 10 post all what they did.
I also loved skyfire, but now its impossible to use it on my Magic at all. Instead of making that, they could have fixed video errors, that happen in 2 out of 3 videos. Plus there were no single movie that I could finish without an error.
Off topic: You guys should have seen the computer at my temporary workplace. It had 150 toolbars installed on IE, Starting from yahoo toolbar and ending with facebook toolbar. All kinds of notifiers and BS, forced on the noobs. Took me 2 hours to clean everything from it, including hundreds of viruses and bs.
It is clearly obvious that the goal of each social network is to capture people as many as possible. Alone I do not blame them. For the most part it is people's fault.
I was growing up in Ukraine, and a computer was something that we did once a month (if lucky enough). We did anything possible, from fishing to exploring... Were out from sunrise till sundown.
Even shared photos and proposed to girls in PERSON. Now people breaking up on freaking facebook, and seek a remedy for their problems...

AntonJart said:
Im just getting really annoyed by facebook, twitter, and myspace stuff forced upon me. I install something, there yahoo toolbar forced, or facebook link.
I keep facebook just as an easy connection to friends, but not as my way of life. I go to facebook anytime and i see at least 10 of my friends sitting out there, where 9 out of these 10 post all what they did.
I also loved skyfire, but now its impossible to use it on my Magic at all. Instead of making that, they could have fixed video errors, that happen in 2 out of 3 videos. Plus there were no single movie that I could finish without an error.
Off topic: You guys should have seen the computer at my temporary workplace. It had 150 toolbars installed on IE, Starting from yahoo toolbar and ending with facebook toolbar. All kinds of notifiers and BS, forced on the noobs. Took me 2 hours to clean everything from it, including hundreds of viruses and bs.
It is clearly obvious that the goal of each social network is to capture people as many as possible. Alone I do not blame them. For the most part it is people's fault.
I was growing up in Ukraine, and a computer was something that we did once a month (if lucky enough). We did anything possible, from fishing to exploring... Were out from sunrise till sundown.
Even shared photos and proposed to girls in PERSON. Now people breaking up on freaking facebook, and seek a remedy for their problems...
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I drove 2 hours to try to break up with my girlfriend. I just couldn't do it over the phone. It wouldn't be fair. In the end we decided to stick with each other. I like to think I'm a happier man for that

ChrisAnderson said:
It's Web 2.0. Social Networks take over the world. What's the next step?
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next step will be lowered monthly bill for web2.0 and raised monthly bill for old web ... naturally most folks will flock to the cheaper web2.0 "becuz thats what they use anyway" and by this happening , slowly will form a whitelist of "big sites" where users have a net id to sign in and u can be moderated , banned and sanctionated . the isp's will be free to push select sites(read :who they get the best offers from) at the users while the truly free internet , where anyone can make their own , and speak out , shall slowly fade away

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next step will be lowered monthly bill for web2.0 and raised monthly bill for old web ... naturally most folks will flock to the cheaper web2.0 "becuz thats what they use anyway" and by this happening , slowly will form a whitelist of "big sites" where users have a net id to sign in and u can be moderated , banned and sanctionated . the isp's will be free to push select sites(read :who they get the best offers from) at the users while the truly free internet , where anyone can make their own , and speak out , shall slowly fade away
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Actually, it's turning the other way around. The big players were bouncing around the idea of charging users more if they go to popular sites like FB and Google.

IDK why is the Op so facebook/social networks hater,
i dont have any toolbar nor viruses, eventhough i dont use an antivrus software or anything.
i have a fb account and i use it only for people i know... no need for strangers, they are always rejected...

[PLEASE SHARE] ACTA is signed.

ACTA Signed by 8 of 11 Countries - Now What?
ACTA Will Be Signed Saturday, US and Japan Say
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What is ACTA actually... just Google for it... or read bellow
ACTA - nothing more than LAW (or act) which when signed will limit right of free speech, it will affect your privacy, all of us reading this will be monitored 24/7. There will be no more torrents, no more uploads lyrics songs to Youtube, no more movies no more nothing.... it's the end of internet that we know.
Under ACTA at airports, borders etc... your iPods, iPads, MP3 players, cellphones, smartphones, notebooks, hard drives can BE searched without your permission to look for a file that has no confirmation that you bought it, that it is your property.
Global fascism slowly takes over. All this is being prepared for a couple of years, and I hope that all those who did not see the problem in Google, Facebook and similar services will see that the problem is them.
Many have said I do not care if someone is spying on me and I have nothing to hide, but it comes a time when we all dance how they tell us. Sit dog, sit.
WE NEED TO DO AT LEAST SOMETHING SO Re-Post this... or provide even more info..

Why make duplicate threads? I've just asked a mod to move the one in the S2 forum and now I see one in off-topic. Have you made any more of the same thing?
Edit: I just looked at your post history. There isn't a "rolleyes" emoticon big enough for how I feel right now. As I told the mods when I reported this, while I agree with your plight, I don't agree with your technique.

I'm glad at least one of the ten threads you created are in the right place...
ONE THREAD ONLY!!!
DO NOT SPAM EVERY FORUM WITH THE SAME THREAD!!!

jesus like I killed someone... .!.
oh, point was... more people will see...

If you want to spread the word then do it on lots of different sites, not many times on 1.

This site is the largest I know.. so xda is .. like 10 sites @ once...
Besides... I did that shared on facebook, youtube, and others forums too

Try tweeting @ relevant people that have lots of followers. If they retweet it you could get it viral. Unlikely, but worth a shot.
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i dont have tweeter ..xd
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In our contry ACTA is hold down. THey just can realize they are scared

Dare-Devil Inside said:
i dont have tweeter ..xd
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www.twitter.com

so, we're basically screwed =D

Told you it would be back and signed by executive order. What better time than Superbowl weekend? Ill take my mini SD card and swallow it before they raid my personal data.
Ill have to learn to ween myself off of the internet. Take up fishing, camping and maybe get back into producing/composing music. It might be a good thing for me.

Introduction

Hey everyone, I'm E-Jay and 2 years ago I knew absolutely nothing about Android, apps, or anything related to it. I was interested in Facebook and only because in 2013 I had started a group for people recovering from drug and alcohol addiction or looking for help finding recovery resources, I myself am in recovery, and it was more successful than I ever could imagine. Unfortunately in 2018 I had left the group in the hands of my #1 admin while I was out of town working because I didn't have the spare time to put 100% into the group and it's membership and I had done this multiple times in the 5yrs of it's existence. Now with over 10k followers and a list of on call recovery professionals we called The Recovery Professional Network, we guaranteed that any active user anywhere in the USA would be in a bed in a rehab center within 24hrs of reaching out for help as long as they did they're part and followed through and not a single time was that promise broken. Including one Alaskan member which amazed even me. During my absence the woman running the group added an admin member who we both knew from interaction in the group who I never cared for but Rachel, my admin really liked. When she asked if I was ok with it I told her about the alarm bells that went off the time I talked to her but know I'm a very unsocial person and said it's her call because I was away indefinitely and she went ahead and added her. About a month later I noticed I hadn't gotten notifications from my group in a few days and normally got 20+ so signed in and to my surprise the new admin member had removed Rachel from the group and blocked her, removed the other admins, and put By Her Name with her work title next to her name. Even removed my active profile but fortunately I still had access to the profile I started the group with and as owner she couldn't remove me. I had no idea how long it had been like that but immediately logged in the owner profile, removed her, and took her name off the page. Unfortunately, the damage was done. She had used my group for her job as a headhunter for recovery centers. At that time it was a common practice and they were banned from the group because the profession was known for underhanded tactics, illegal even. She had gotten a minor from the group in a Florida rehab, flew him down, did the paperwork fictitiously, and used with him when he got there. The mother was being charged with Medicaid fraud and the kid a mess and worse than ever in his addiction. So, I decided that the damage to the group was to much to recover from. I didn't have the free time it would take to repair the damage done. So I archived it because I always said if it ever got to where it wasn't the tool that active users could count on to help them, free of charge, any way possible in their recovery I would shut it down. I did exactly that. About 6 months later started another one that was attached to a conspiracy theory blog. Once again it was more successful than I imagined. About 2 months in with a couple thousand followers I started researching groups that are tied to the subject and did a post about the yellow vest protest in France. The research for this brought me into contact with Anoyomous and other hacktivist groups because they are front line fighters against what is known as the NWO, one of the most well known conspiracy theories and in my eyes one that has evidence of truth everywhere you look. I started noticing strange things my PC and then my phone started to do and eventually shut the group down because I was certain I had been hacked. I got consumed by trying to figure out who and how someone was doing what was going on with my devices. Everyone I know thought I was crazy and after 18 months of looking and telling people who always had same reaction of looking at me like I lost my mind and saying as much behind my back, I quit talking about it. I even stopped using my phone even though I knew I was right because 50 or more times I thought I was being led to a certain thing that I was being led to believe was happening in my personal life that ended up being true. 100% of the conclusions I thought was being told to me ended up being true. Yet still, everybody thought I was crazy and still do honestly. Yesterday I discovered Total Virus and scanned my device there and finally I have proof my OS is corrupted. The scan found a keylogger, 2 Trojas one which is a dropper and hides the viruses in legit apps so antivirus apps don't find them, and finally a RAT or Remote Operation Terminal that gives the owner full operational control of my device including the mic, camera, and files. The reason I am posting here is to ask for help A-tracing who did this because part of me suspects it's someone I know but the other part remembers the time with the hacktivist and a argument I had with one certain person that ended with us both not liking each other. B-emoving these from my system without losing everything and having to start over. I have made countless Google accounts, profiles, multiple devices, and have deleted more apps than I can count yet still at this followed me through these two years. I appreciate any help I can get and thank you in advance. I look forward meeting anyone from this forum who thinks they can help and has the willingness to do so. I attached Screenshots Of the Total VIRUS scAN aND SD maids oVErVIeW oF MY dEvCE.