[TheForge] widgway

[jerry Frost]

Good idea Mike, thanks for sharing. Having an internal alarm to let us know
our systems are hacked is a good thing, hacking through anti-malware
programs is rampant.

There's a new industry built on hacking computers and using the info for
profit. That our address books get hacked is no surprise, all it takes is
replying to a mal-message to open you  up. Some countries have no real
industries or are just to expensive to support themselves, so fraud and
theft are their main means of support.

Jer

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Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2014 4:28 AM
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Subject: Re: [TheForge] widgway

I have run across something recently.
I am getting "Message delivery failures en masse. These supposedly are being
sent from an email address associated with my domain name.

I traced back the actual origin to a spammer in Spain who is sending out
Pfizer junk. So getting hacked is not the only possible source.

A long time ago I salted my email address book with several addresses which
all reflect back to me.  If I get incoming from or to one of these then I
know that my computer is the source of a problem.These addresses get used
for nothing else.

Mike Graf

On 3/29/2014 9:24 PM, Ed Eccleston wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>     I do not know what this is.  I did not send it, so PLEASE DO NOT OPEN
ANYTHING!
> Someone or something hacked my email list, and this was the only site that
the firewall didn't stop going through.
>     I thought the Apple iOS was supposed to prevent this.
> Again, sorry for any hassle,  and if anyone did open anything,  try to get
rid of it.
>
> Ed Eccleston
>
> Sent from my iPad
>