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Hi Dale,
Don't know if your conclusion correct or not. I do know my e mail was
not only harvested but "Hijacked" in that it has been used by Spammers as
the origin for messages I certainly did not send. However, I get the
"bounces" from their use of my URL returned to me and indications that some
providers are now blocking my URL due to its use by the spammers. I am
convinced that the spammers got my e mail from a Yahoo list I joined. I
also noted in one case that a harvester had gotten into the address list of
my own service provider. My service provider is now blocking virus on its
on and fortunately I rarely see one that has not been "disabled" already.
So the fact that you might get a message from me containing Spam or worst
yet a virus, don't mean it came from me. I use Norton's anti-virus to scan
both incoming and outgoing mail and have a hardware firewall, so its very
unlikely it would come from me, but it could some from a spammer or others
that have "Hijacked" my e mail URL.
Frankly, I don't know what you can do about it. Switching URL is certainly
a pain.
Ed
Ed Anderson
RV-6A N494BW Rotary Powered
Matthews, NC
----- Original Message ----- From: "Dale R." <rogersda@myway.com>
To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2004 5:35 PM
Subject: [FlyRotary] Network abuse
Hi All,
I was afraid of this. We have a spammer harvesting addresses
from our list archive.
Just an hour after posting my first message from my new (to this
list) address, I started getting the same kind of spam that started
shortly after my last move from email.com to cox.net. In the
previous 10 months that I've had this address, I had never received
a single piece of SPAM.
Also, I wonder if someone with Jim Sower's address has an infected
computer. I recieved a message, through the list, with no text -
just an attached file: C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\nsmailPU.gif
I'm not on a computer I can put at risk, right now , so I haven't
attempted to download and scan to see if it's legit.
Sorry to take up list bandwidth this way, but it _could_ become
important.
Dale R.
COZY MkIV-R #1254
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