[CTSARA] Email spamming

[Paul Lourd]

A couple of people have asked me if my "email has been hacked". However, if
you look at the people the spam is addressed to, you will see it is likely
another ham that has an email problem, since I do not have most of these
addresses anywhere in my contacts. And most of the contact are ham related.

If you are familiar with spam bots, when they infect you, they use your
contact list to send the spam, and also fake the return address, usually
with another name from your list.

So, if you have a contacts list that look like the list below, I suggest
you run some scanners on your machine (malwarebytes, spybot search and
destroy, ad-aware are just a few decent ones). If you are infected,it would
be nice if you could inform the list so we know its solved. No shame.

Planehpn <Planehpn at aol.com>; jess <jess at girardrubber.com>; gbarcWM <
gbarcWM at gbarc.net>; gulyas <gulyas at earthlink.net>; Jbrannig <
Jbrannig at verizon.net>; JohnLa <JohnLa at usa.net>; w7wsb <w7wsb at omiss.net>;
fraser67 <fraser67 at bellsouth.net>; n8dy <n8dy at charter.net>; edashway <
edashway at gmail.com>; netlogger subscribe <netlogger-subscribe at netlogger.org>;
ssimons <ssimons at manitousys.com>; edashway <edashway at optonline.net>; heiden
dave <heiden.dave at gmail.com>; kshah399 <kshah399 at gmail.com>; glenf <
glenf at windstream.net>; w1gig <w1gig at att.net>; gnarc <gnarc at mailman.qth.net>;
paul <paul at lourd.com>; plourd <plourd at optonline.net>


Paul
WB2JVB