[Yaesu] Spammers

[KB0NLY]

This is very seldom caused by a worm these days, its usually a address book 
spammer as we call them now.  You join a site and they ask for access to 
your address book to "ask friends to join" and then you wrongly give them 
permission and they use it to spam people.  I have seen this happen 
countless times and normally when I get called in I check to find that the 
computer itself has no infection whatsoever, and that they actually 
foolishly shared their address book to a networking website.

Windows is fine if you know how to use a computer.  I have used windows all 
my life, not one infection, not one major problem yet in over 20 years.

So poor me I guess??  Whatever... Learn how to use something and its not a 
problem.

73,

Scott KB0NLY



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From: "Mike.WE0H" <we0h at gmx.com>
Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2010 8:25 PM
To: "Yaesu Group" <yaesu at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: Re: [Yaesu] Spammers

> So delete his membership in the Yaesu Group and be done with it. His
> computer has a worm which is using his address book to mail out spam
> messages. He runs Windoze obviously...hi hi...Poor fellow.
>
> When he gets things cleaned up, he can join again and be back to normal.
> This has happened to other Groups and reflector members. Nothing new,
> just some darn Spammers getting into another Windoze user's computer and
>  sending crap out to everyone in their address book. Delete the user,
> inform them of a worm in their computer, they fix it, they join again,
> problem solved. Easy.
>
> Mike
> WE0H
>
>
>
>
> ED  wrote:
>>  The problem is it may not actually be him. Someone may have his
>> password and hijacked his acct.
>>
>> Ed W4TEY
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