Topband: Spam on the Reflector!

[Dave Harmon]

Hi Bill....
No real need to abandon Yahoo. 
As you said, delete the address or contacts book in Yahoo and then use a
resident email app and store the contacts in your own computer.
I got hacked awhile back but they did not hack this computer because of the
ESET antivirus I have.....they hacked the whole account within the Yahoo
servers and added a second email address then sent out thousands of spam
email spoofing my email address.
When I found out about it I logged into my Yahoo account, changed the
password first and then deleted the unwanted email address....easy. 

Dave Harmon
K6XYZ[at]sbcglobal[dot]net
Sperry, Ok.


-----Original Message-----
From: Topband [mailto:topband-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Bill
Cromwell
Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2013 7:23 PM
To: topband at contesting.com
Subject: Re: Topband: Spam on the Reflector!

On 06/19/2013 03:38 PM, Keith Jillings (G3OIT) wrote:
> ---snip------
>
> 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
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Topband Reflector