This happened to me about a month ago. Norton could not find any thing in my
computer. It took me a couple of day days to find it.
When I disabled all the addresses in my Yahoo address book it stopped.
Bob Macklin
K5MYJ
Seattle, Wa.
"Real Radios Glow In The Dark"
----- Original Message -----
From: "Piers Goodhew" <piers@...>
To: <Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, August 16, 2010 7:13 AM
Subject: Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] Yes, something is wrong, I am NOT a spammer!!!
> Ah, I didn't see any of that happening, just the list post. Maybe I wasn't
> paying full attention, if that's the case, then he must be compromised.
>
> PG
>
> On 17/08/2010, at 12:04 AM, Bob Macklin wrote:
>
>> The problem is that the messages are going to everyone in Chris' Yahoo
>> address book. That address book is on the Yahoo server. Can you send a
>> message to everyone that is in Chris' address book?
>>
>> Bob Macklin
>> K5MYJ
>> Seattle, Wa.
>> "Real Radios Glow In The Dark"
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Piers Goodhew" <piers@...>
>> To: <Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com>
>> Sent: Monday, August 16, 2010 5:16 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] Yes, something is wrong, I am NOT a
>> spammer!!!
>>
>> > ... so it looks like it's trivial to post under any name at all, using
>> > any
>> > valid list member address. This isn't really Y!'s fault, email was
>> > never
>> > designed to be verifiably authentic. I could post as "Barack Obama"
>> > using
>> > Chris' email address (but I wont, for several reasons).
>> >
>> > Group messages are viewable without requiring a login, and while it
>> > only
>> > shows the part before the @, my hunch is the spammer has had an
>> > automated
>> > script skim all group archives and then add "@..." to all users
>> > and
>> > tried to post from those addresses. Does anyone else post using a yahoo
>> > email?
>> >
>> > PG
>> >
>> > On 16/08/2010, at 9:59 PM, Piers Goodhew wrote:
>> >
>> >> It's possible they're just doing simple "from" spoofing - if so, then
>> >> the
>> >> spammer does not and never has had access to yr account (or need not
>> >> have
>> >> anyway). It's perfectly allowable in email to put whatever "from"
>> >> address
>> >> you like, and if that's all yahoo groups cares about, then you only
>> >> have
>> >> to have the email address of a valid group member.
>> >>
>> >> Only way to stop it would be to subscribe under a different email. Or
>> >> get
>> >> Y! groups to do much more thorough authenticity checking, which is
>> >> actually pretty hard (both hard itself and hard to get Y! to change in
>> >> a
>> >> hurry).
>> >>
>> >> I'll just try a quick post as me but from a totally different
>> >> account/server and see what happens ...
>> >>
>> >> PG
>> >>
>> >> On 16/08/2010, at 8:37 PM, Chris wrote:
>> >>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> Sorry about this guys. I am not a spammer but have no idea how this
>> >>> person(s) keeps doing this to me. I have changed passwords and have
>> >>> noticed that it does not matter which computer I use to post with.
>> >>> The
>> >>> last time this happened I was actually on my work computer which I
>> >>> completely killed and reinstalled the O.S.
>> >>>
>> >>> I will have to post on some other groups to see if the problem
>> >>> happens
>> >>> everywhere or just on this forum.
>> >>>
>> >>> I will change my password again but do not think this will clear up
>> >>> the
>> >>> problem as I have no idea how it is happening.
>> >>>
>> >>> Again, sorry about this guys but I have no way of stopping it.
>> >>>
>> >>> Chris
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
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>> >> Photos:
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>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>> >
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>> > Be sure to visit the group home and check for new Links, Files, and
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>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
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> Be sure to visit the group home and check for new Links, Files, and
> Photos:
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