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Gary K9GS

elecraf/K4TMC??

I'm sure by now everyone has seen the "elecraf" spam that got posted to
the reflector. I've got a filter set up in my e-mail client to filter
out [hidden email] Even after all of this, every time I connect to my
server to retrieve mail another copy shows up in my spam filter. I'm up
to 50+ today alone.

Is anyone else seeing this?

Do I need to do anything else to get rid of this or do I possibly have
some malware lurking on my computer? And no, I didn't click on the link
in the spam e-mail.

Spammers should be hung by their genitals and slowly skinned with a
rusty pocket knife.

--

73,

Gary K9GS

Check out K9NS on the web: http://www.k9ns.com
Greater Milwaukee DX Association: http://www.gmdxa.org
Society of Midwest Contesters: http://www.w9smc.com

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k4tmc

Re: elecraf/K4TMC??

Gary and all Elecraft users,

I apologize for any spam that has been generated from my email account.

I have taken measures to hopefully preclude this from happening again. Somehow, after over 10 years with the current account, my email account was compromised. Not sure how it happened, but I started getting hundreds of failed email notes in my spam filter. Since no one notified me of the issue, I was not aware of it until yesterday afternoon.

73,
Henry Pollock - K4TMC

-----Original Message-----
From: Gary K9GS <[hidden email]>
To: 'Elecraft' <[hidden email]>
Sent: Sat, Mar 19, 2011 5:28 pm
Subject: [Elecraft] elecraf/K4TMC??

I'm sure by now everyone has seen the "elecraf" spam that got posted to

the reflector. I've got a filter set up in my e-mail client to filter

out [hidden email] Even after all of this, every time I connect to my

server to retrieve mail another copy shows up in my spam filter. I'm up

to 50+ today alone.

Is anyone else seeing this?

Do I need to do anything else to get rid of this or do I possibly have

some malware lurking on my computer? And no, I didn't click on the link

in the spam e-mail.

Spammers should be hung by their genitals and slowly skinned with a

rusty pocket knife.

--

73,

Gary K9GS

Check out K9NS on the web: http://www.k9ns.com

Greater Milwaukee DX Association: http://www.gmdxa.org

Society of Midwest Contesters: http://www.w9smc.com

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Re: elecraf/K4TMC??

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Gary K9GS

Re: elecraf/K4TMC??

Oh...I know how this happens. K4TMC is a good guy...I'm sure someone
cracked his e-mail account.

On 3/19/2011 5:28 PM, Ron D'Eau Claire wrote:

> If you analyze the header from one of the e-mails, you may discover that it
> didn't really come from your e-mail account or your machine.
>
> It's common for malware to infect a computer and read the 'address book' in
> that machine. If the user of that machine had ever received or downloaded an
> e-mail from you, your address is in the list. The malware grabs an address
> at random as the "sender". In this case it was your e-mail address.
>
> It's happened to me once in the past 15 years, but once was enough. Still,
> there's no sure solution.
>
> Ron AC7AC
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Gary and all Elecraft users,
>
> I apologize for any spam that has been generated from my email account.
>
> I have taken measures to hopefully preclude this from happening again.
> Somehow, after over 10 years with the current account, my email account was
> compromised. Not sure how it happened, but I started getting hundreds of
> failed email notes in my spam filter. Since no one notified me of the
> issue, I was not aware of it until yesterday afternoon.
>
> 73,
> Henry Pollock - K4TMC
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gary K9GS<[hidden email]>
> To: 'Elecraft'<[hidden email]>
> Sent: Sat, Mar 19, 2011 5:28 pm
> Subject: [Elecraft] elecraf/K4TMC??
>
>
> I'm sure by now everyone has seen the "elecraf" spam that got posted to
>
> the reflector. I've got a filter set up in my e-mail client to filter
>
> out [hidden email] Even after all of this, every time I connect to my
>
> server to retrieve mail another copy shows up in my spam filter. I'm up
>
> to 50+ today alone.
>
>
>
> Is anyone else seeing this?
>
>
>
> Do I need to do anything else to get rid of this or do I possibly have
>
> some malware lurking on my computer? And no, I didn't click on the link
>
> in the spam e-mail.
>
>
>
> Spammers should be hung by their genitals and slowly skinned with a
>
> rusty pocket knife.
>
>
>
>
>

--

73,

Gary K9GS

Check out K9NS on the web: http://www.k9ns.com
Greater Milwaukee DX Association: http://www.gmdxa.org
Society of Midwest Contesters: http://www.w9smc.com

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Paul Saville-6

Re: OT elecraf/K4TMC??

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Henry,

It is likely that your computer is or was infected with some malware
that allows it to be used as a spam relay.

Get a friend (who has an un-infected PC) to download and burn the "AVG
Rescue CD" from avg dot com (it's free). Boot and scan from the CD and
see what it finds.

(I am an AVG customer, but have no other connection with them.)

73 Paul ZL3IN

On 20/03/2011 11:11 a.m., [hidden email] wrote:
>
> Gary and all Elecraft users,
>
> I apologize for any spam that has been generated from my email account.
>
> I have taken measures to hopefully preclude this from happening again. Somehow, after over 10 years with the current account, my email account was compromised. Not sure how it happened, but I started getting hundreds of failed email notes in my spam filter. Since no one notified me of the issue, I was not aware of it until yesterday afternoon.
>
> 73,
> Henry Pollock - K4TMC
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Gary K9GS

Re: OT elecraf/K4TMC??

I ran a scan using Malwarebytes and Spybot S&D and had no hits. I ended
up blocking [hidden email] at the server level and this seems to have
solved the problem. Sorry Harry that this happened to you. I've seen
this happen on other list servers before but never to this extent. If I
recall they were on YahooGroups and Yahoo must take pretty quick actions
to solve because it never lasts long.

I really hate spammers......

On 3/19/2011 9:37 PM, Paul Saville wrote:

> Henry,
>
> It is likely that your computer is or was infected with some malware
> that allows it to be used as a spam relay.
>
> Get a friend (who has an un-infected PC) to download and burn the "AVG
> Rescue CD" from avg dot com (it's free). Boot and scan from the CD and
> see what it finds.
>
> (I am an AVG customer, but have no other connection with them.)
>
> 73 Paul ZL3IN
>
> On 20/03/2011 11:11 a.m., [hidden email] wrote:
>> Gary and all Elecraft users,
>>
>> I apologize for any spam that has been generated from my email account.
>>
>> I have taken measures to hopefully preclude this from happening again. Somehow, after over 10 years with the current account, my email account was compromised. Not sure how it happened, but I started getting hundreds of failed email notes in my spam filter. Since no one notified me of the issue, I was not aware of it until yesterday afternoon.
>>
>> 73,
>> Henry Pollock - K4TMC
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