[Boatanchors] viruses

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

Someone, as Keith correctly stated, penetrated your machine due to inadequate
firewall protection and planted what they wanted. Said person could by anyone
anywhere in the world. Probably from China, the bulk come from there. But also,
all this Russia stuff from Bill Howard, a lot come from Russia also. Those who
replied direct and or William Howard forward the info to, gave your info to
them. That is probably why William Howard and Glen both have it due to Russian
hackers.	
Yahoo is notorious for this, it is hardly news!

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From: Keith Heitzmann <kk5fe at charter.net>
To: boatanchors at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] viruses
Date: Tuesday, July 27, 2004 12:15 AM

At 05:10 PM 7/26/2004 -0700, Glen Zook wrote:
>Someone is "spoofing" my E-Mail address and sending
>out viruses.  I just ran my anti-virus program and my
>machine is "clean".
>
>The E-Mail address on the "spoofed" is "Gzook"
><gzook at YAHOO>COM>.  When I am using this Yahoo
>account, which I do on all of the reflectors, the
>correct way that it comes down is "Glen Zook"
><gzook at yahoo.com>.  Note that my name is spelled out
>and that yahoo.com is in all lower case letters and
>NOT upper case as in the "spoofed" E-Mail address.


Hi Glen,

I'd just like to say that while its possible this is coming from someone close
to you or on this list, its very unlikely.  It could be coming from a pc
anywhere in the world.    The way most of these worms work is they are written
to look around the Internet for email address that may be there for the taking,
then they just start spawning new address in hopes of coming close to a real
address.  How do they take email addresses?  Glad you asked!   You gave it to
them............   just do a google search with your address in it and you will
see what I mean.  It came back with 189 hits with your address embedded in these
types of list messages.  You will also note that most of the domain names are in
upper case.   

The programing that is used is commonly called a robot or "BOT" for short.  It
combs the Internet web sites for email addresses in the HTML code and then uses
them to start sending spam, virus or whatever.    This is the reason that people
will get emails bounced back to them from sources that they have never heard of
before.  Its a way of covering the real culprits tracks.

This is just one of the many ways your email could be spoofed.  Another is the
program will take a known domain and start creating names out of characters at
random hoping to hit on a real address which is the reason no one should ever
respond to these types of messages telling them to unsubscribe you, or
whatever.....  it just tells them the email is address is real.     I installed
a spam/virus server for the company I work for.   It catches on average two to
three thousand spam and or virus messages a week.  Most are spawned email
addresses that don't make sense.  

This is happening to everyone and at an alarming rate.

Anyway, I hope no one minded me going off on this!   

Take care and 73,
Keith,  KK5FE



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