“Your Craigslist Posting” email is a classic phishing email. This “Your Craigslist Posting” email tells you you’ve posted a Sony PlayStation for sale on Singapore Craigslist, and links to a scam webpage that tries to trick you into giving con artists your Craigslist login info.

If you accidentally log into the site this “Your Craigslist Posting” email links to (http://accounts.craigs.szm.com), you’ll give con artists access to your Craigslist account and a chance to steal your personal identity. If you’ve logged into any sites that this “Your Craigslist Posting” email links to, alert Craigslist and any related credit card companies. You might need to close your accounts.

Whenever you see an email like this “Your Craigslist Posting” email, never click any links. If you’re concerned the email might be real, type Craigslist’s website address into a fresh browser window, and login from there.

Now let me show you how to block this “Your Craigslist Posting” email.

Do You Have “Your Craigslist Posting” email?

When you’re infected with badware — whether it’s “Your Craigslist Posting” email, spyware, adware, a Trojan, or a virus — there are a few key symptoms. Have you noticed…

• Slow computer performance: It just takes one parasite like “Your Craigslist Posting” email to slow your computer dramatically. If your PC takes longer than usual to reboot, or if your Internet connection is unusually slow, you may be infected with “Your Craigslist Posting” email.
• New desktop shortcuts or switched homepage: Badware like “Your Craigslist Posting” email may change your Internet settings to redirect your homepage to another site. Badware can even add desktop shortcuts to your PC.
• Annoying popups: Badware can bombard your computer with popup ads, even when you’re not online. Through these popups, you may be tricked into downloading more spyware.

How to Remove “Your Craigslist Posting” email Manually

Before we get started, you should backup your system and your registry, so it’ll be easy to restore your computer if anything goes wrong.

To remove “Your Craigslist Posting” email manually, you need to delete “Your Craigslist Posting” email files. Not sure how to delete “Your Craigslist Posting” email files? Click here, and I’ll show you. Otherwise, go ahead and…

“Your Craigslist Posting” email email reads:

From: noreply@craigslist.org
Subject: Your craigslist posting “SONY PLAYSTATION 3 METAL GEAR SOLID 4 PS3 80GB BUNDLE !”
Reply-To: noreply@craigslist.org
Confirmation for Posting ID# 921869828

Your ad, titled “SONY PLAYSTATION 3 METAL GEAR SOLID 4 PS3 80GB BUNDLE !,” has been posted as follows:

http://singapore.craigslist.com.sg/ele/921869828.html (electronics)
Posts will appear in the list of postings and in search results in about 15 minutes. If you have trouble finding them, please check our help page at http://www.craigslist.org/about/help/where.html

Please login into your account if you need to edit or delete your posting:

https://accounts.craigslist.org/login

If you did not post this ad please change your account password asap:

https://accounts.craigslist.org/login/chgpwd

For your protection please check our list of common scams: http://www.craigslist.org/about/scams.html

Thanks for using craigslist!

Block “Your Craigslist Posting” email sites:

Note: In any “Your Craigslist Posting” email files I mention above, “%UserProfile%” is a variable referring to your current user’s profile folder. If you’re using Windows NT/2000/XP, by default this is “C:\Documents and Settings\[CURRENT USER]” (e.g., “C:\Documents and Settings\JoeSmith”). If you have any questions about manual “Your Craigslist Posting” email removal, go ahead and leave a comment.

How Do You Remove “Your Craigslist Posting” email Files?

Need help figuring out how to delete “Your Craigslist Posting” email files? While there’s some risk involved, and you should only manually remove “Your Craigslist Posting” email files if you’re comfortable editing your system, you’ll find it’s fairly easy to delete “Your Craigslist Posting” email files in Windows.

How to delete “Your Craigslist Posting” email files in Windows XP and Vista:

1. Click your Windows Start menu, and then click “Search.”
2. A speech bubble will pop up asking you, “What do you want to search for?” Click “All files and folders.”
3. Type a “Your Craigslist Posting” email file in the search box, and select “Local Hard Drives.”
4. Click “Search.” Once the file is found, delete it.

How to stop “Your Craigslist Posting” email processes:

1. Click the Start menu, select Run.
2. Type taskmgr.exe into the the Run command box, and click “OK.” You can also launch the Task Manager by pressing keys CTRL + Shift + ESC.
3. Click Processes tab, and find “Your Craigslist Posting” email processes.
4. Once you’ve found the “Your Craigslist Posting” email processes, right-click them and select “End Process” to kill “Your Craigslist Posting” email.

How to remove “Your Craigslist Posting” email registry keys:

Because your registry is such a key piece of your Windows system, you should always backup your registry before you edit it. Editing your registry can be intimidating if you’re not a computer expert, and when you change or a delete a critical registry key or value, there’s a chance you may need to reinstall your entire system. Make sure your backup your registry before editing it.

1. Select your Windows menu “Start,” and click “Run.” An “Open” field will appear. Type “regedit” and click “OK” to open up your Registry Editor.
2. Registry Editor will open as a window with two panes. The left side Registry Editor’s window lets you select various registry keys, and the right side displays the registry values of the registry key you select.
3. To find a registry key, such as any “Your Craigslist Posting” email registry keys, select “Edit,” then select “Find,” and in the search bar type any of “Your Craigslist Posting” email’s registry keys.
4. As soon as “Your Craigslist Posting” email registry key appears, you can delete the “Your Craigslist Posting” email registry key by right-clicking it and selecting “Modify,” then clicking “Delete.”

How to delete “Your Craigslist Posting” email DLL files:

1. First locate “Your Craigslist Posting” email DLL files you want to delete. Open your Windows Start menu, then click “Run.” Type “cmd” in Run, and click “OK.”
2. To change your current directory, type “cd” in the command box, press your “Space” key, and enter the full directory where the “Your Craigslist Posting” email DLL file is located. If you’re not sure if the “Your Craigslist Posting” email DLL file is located in a particular directory, enter “dir” in the command box to display a directory’s contents. To go one directory back, enter “cd ..” in the command box and press “Enter.”
3. When you’ve located the “Your Craigslist Posting” email DLL file you want to remove, type “regsvr32 /u SampleDLLName.dll” (e.g., “regsvr32 /u jl27script.dll”) and press your “Enter” key.

That’s it. If you want to restore any “Your Craigslist Posting” email DLL file you removed, type “regsvr32 DLLJustDeleted.dll” (e.g., “regsvr32 jl27script.dll”) into your command box, and press your “Enter” key.

Did “Your Craigslist Posting” email change your homepage?

1. Click Windows Start menu > Control Panel > Internet Options.
2. Under Home Page, select the General > Use Default.
3. Type in the URL you want as your home page (e.g., “http://www.homepage.com”).
4. Select Apply > OK.
5. You’ll want to open a fresh web page and make sure that your new default home page pops up.

“Your Craigslist Posting” email Removal Tip

Is your computer acting funny after deleting any “Your Craigslist Posting” email files? I recommend using a program like File Recover from PC Tools. File Recover saves deleted files that otherwise can’t be recovered by Windows operating sytem.

Want to save time finding “Your Craigslist Posting” email files? Download Spyware Doctor, let it find the “Your Craigslist Posting” email files for you, and then manually delete “Your Craigslist Posting” email files.

How Did You Get “Your Craigslist Posting” email?

Wondering how “Your Craigslist Posting” email ended up on your PC? If you’re infected with “Your Craigslist Posting” email or other badware, perhaps you were using…

• Freeware or shareware: Did you download and install shareware or freeware? These low-cost or free software applications may come bundled with spyware, adware, or programs like “Your Craigslist Posting” email. Sometimes adware is attached to the free software to “pay” developers for the cost of creating the software, and more often spyware is secretly attached to free software to harm your computer and steal your personal and financial information.
• Peer-to-peer software: Do you use a peer-to-peer (P2P) program or other application with a shared network? When you use these applications, you put your system at risk for unknowingly downloading an infected file, including applications like “Your Craigslist Posting” email.
• Questionable websites: Did you visit a website that’s of questionable nature? When you visit malicious sites that are fishy and phishy, badware may be automatically downloaded and installed onto your computer, sometimes including applications like “Your Craigslist Posting” email. I recommend you use Firefox web browser, if you don’t already.

Understanding “Your Craigslist Posting” email

If you’re infected with “Your Craigslist Posting” email, you should know what you’re fighting. I’ll explain some definitions related to “Your Craigslist Posting” email.

“Your Craigslist Posting” email May Be a Phishing Scam

Phishing is just what it sounds like: “fishing.” But instead of fishing for sport, phishing is about fishing for identity theft victims. Phishing scams like this “Your Craigslist Posting” email typically work like this: you get an email that looks like a legit alert from a popular bank or other financial institution. The phishing email says your account is about to be closed, for security reasons. So you click the link in the email to restore your account, and get taken to a con artist’s website that looks like a legit web page. You type in your username and password, and the phishers capture your login info. From there, phishers use your account name and password to steal your money and identity.

If you’ve clicked any links in a phishing email like “Your Craigslist Posting” email, scan your computer for Trojans with antivirus software, and alert your bank and credit companies.