Topband: Spam on the Reflector!

[Bill Cromwell]

On 06/19/2013 03:38 PM, Keith Jillings (G3OIT) wrote:
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>
> Yahoo's mail server was hacked a couple of weeks ago - I've had spam 
> or virus e-mails from most people I know who have a Yahoo e-mail 
> address. I don't know if Yahoo are acknowledging the problem yet.
>
> I spent some of last week clearing out the computers of a couple of 
> ladies in our congregation, and setting them up with decent AV (Avast, 
> needless to say).   The friends whose accounts were used to infect 
> them were not to blame in any way - their address books were copied by 
> the hackers and used to send the nasties.
>
> It's all part of the fun!
>
> Keith
> G3OIT

Hi Keith,

The thing with Yahoo is way older than 2 weeks. Once upon a time 
somebody pointed out that Yahoo hackers were getting access to the 
"address books" there. Those do NOT live on your computer. You have 
entrusted Yahoo with them. I immediately emptied out my address books on 
Yahoo and just for good measure on Gmail, too. I am just at the point of 
completely abandoning Yahoo and all my friends there.

I do look at some emails that have raised suspicions but I have probably 
skipped over some that had "flaky" subject fields, *NO* subject, and 
certainly I look to see where a link is going to take me. So far that 
has been the unfailing belwether of obnoxious messages. It only takes a 
second to look. All of them are so obvious.

73,

Bill  KU8H