Re: [Elecraft] OT: be careful what you open

2017-02-13 Thread rboutell
My two cents worth (before Eric shuts this down :) I'm getting so many emails that ALMOST have a valid address such as ** Amazon <"?>"> ** (Wrapped with additional special characters) Just for fun, I hit reply and the address is now: ** ** Sneaky

Re: [Elecraft] OT: be careful what you open

2017-02-12 Thread Richard Fjeld
FWIW, I've had the 'UN-deliverable package' email, but Windows Defender warned me. I recognized it as a phony about the same time. Still, I was impressed with Defender. I've been getting several phone calls from the Ransom-ware people, and I tell them they should be ashamed of themselves.

Re: [Elecraft] OT: be careful what you open

2017-02-12 Thread Jim Stahl via Elecraft
nal Message- > From: Elecraft [mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Fred > Jensen > Sent: Sunday, February 12, 2017 4:10 PM > To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net > Subject: Re: [Elecraft] OT: be careful what you open > > Ummm ... maybe not. The email address of everyone who h

Re: [Elecraft] OT: be careful what you open

2017-02-12 Thread Lynn W. Taylor, WB6UUT
Mr. Podesta is a good example of what I'm talking about: he was asked to update his password, he didn't look at the message carefully and ask himself if it was genuine. There is nothing magical about Trojan horses. They rely on someone trusting that the offer is genuine, and following the

Re: [Elecraft] OT: be careful what you open

2017-02-12 Thread Ron D'Eau Claire
] On Behalf Of Fred Jensen Sent: Sunday, February 12, 2017 4:10 PM To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] OT: be careful what you open Ummm ... maybe not. The email address of everyone who has recently posted to this list resides in the trash folder on my computer where it went after I

Re: [Elecraft] OT: be careful what you open

2017-02-12 Thread Fred Jensen
Ummm ... maybe not. The email address of everyone who has recently posted to this list resides in the trash folder on my computer where it went after I read it, and where it will stay until a few thousand accumulate and I empty the trash. This is probably also the case for most everyone else.

Re: [Elecraft] OT: be careful what you open

2017-02-12 Thread Lynn W. Taylor, WB6UUT
Kevin, you are correct. It's not the "spam" per-se, but the likelihood that people on this list are receiving trojan horses, and opening them. I know this address appears in exactly one place: here. It was harvested from this list in one way or another. It's possible someone found and

Re: [Elecraft] OT: be careful what you open

2017-02-12 Thread Ron D'Eau Claire
[mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Kevin - K4VD Sent: Sunday, February 12, 2017 1:59 PM To: <Elecraft@mailman.qth.net> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] OT: be careful what you open Do people still have problems with SPAM? I've noticed a significant drop in the past year or so. Using

Re: [Elecraft] OT: be careful what you open

2017-02-12 Thread Kevin - K4VD
Do people still have problems with SPAM? I've noticed a significant drop in the past year or so. Using Google GMail, they catch most of the spam before I ever see it. I do check my spam folder at times just in case but boy oh boy SPAM seems to have become a lot less of a problem lately. In the

Re: [Elecraft] OT: be careful what you open

2017-02-12 Thread Reuben Popp
Let's not be hasty in our judgement... To be fair, it would be trivial to write a small script to harvest any string that looks like an email address that follows the form of /\w\sat\s\w\.(com|net|org|tld)/ (that's a word followed by a space followed by 'at' followed by space followed by a word

[Elecraft] OT: be careful what you open

2017-02-12 Thread Lynn W. Taylor, WB6UUT
I'd like to thank the person who opened an E-Mail attachment that should not have been opened. The attachment contained a trojan horse -- malware that then harvested E-Mail addresses from their machine. I know it was a list member, because my E-Mail address for this list is exclusively used