[Elecraft] elecraf/K4TMC??

Sat Mar 19 18:28:50 EDT 2011

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 <garyk9gs at wi.rr.com>
To: 'Elecraft' <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
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 k4tmc at aol.com  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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