[Elecraft] unknown email

[George, W5YR]

Ron and all,

Norton AV says that I am clean here, so don't know where it is coming from
. . .

73/72, George    
Amateur Radio W5YR -  the Yellow Rose of Texas
In the 57th year and it just keeps getting better!
Fairview, TX 30 mi NE of Dallas in Collin county EM13qe
K2 #489      Icom IC-765 #2349     Icom IC-756 PRO  #2121


Ron D'Eau Claire wrote:
> 
> I have no email e-mail account at "coolink.com" so it's not from me.
> 
> Someone is probably infected with a virus that is scanning their message
> lists or addresses and then creating a bogus message while making
> changes to the "return" address and sending out copies of the virus as
> an attachment. That's a common virus action these days that makes the
> source messages harder to trace.
> 
> My machine is clear according to today's virus scan by McAfee, and it
> runs an e-mail anti-virus scanner active on all incoming e-mails on it.
> It's used in my business, so I keep a careful watch on what's going on.
> 
> The last message that I posted under that subject line was several days
> ago. Perhaps a week now.
> 
> Of course, anything associated with the elecraft reflector that purports
> to have an attachment is "bad news" since no legitimate e-mails to the
> reflector contain any attachments.
> 
> Ron AC7AC
> K2 # 1289