If you analyze the header from one of the e-mails, you may discover that it didn't really come from your e-mail account or your machine.
It's common for malware to infect a computer and read the 'address book' in that machine. If the user of that machine had ever received or downloaded an e-mail from you, your address is in the list. The malware grabs an address at random as the "sender". In this case it was your e-mail address. It's happened to me once in the past 15 years, but once was enough. Still, there's no sure solution. Ron AC7AC -----Original Message----- Gary and all Elecraft users, I apologize for any spam that has been generated from my email account. I have taken measures to hopefully preclude this from happening again. Somehow, after over 10 years with the current account, my email account was compromised. Not sure how it happened, but I started getting hundreds of failed email notes in my spam filter. Since no one notified me of the issue, I was not aware of it until yesterday afternoon. 73, Henry Pollock - K4TMC -----Original Message----- From: Gary K9GS <garyk...@wi.rr.com> To: 'Elecraft' <elecraft@mailman.qth.net> Sent: Sat, Mar 19, 2011 5:28 pm Subject: [Elecraft] elecraf/K4TMC?? I'm sure by now everyone has seen the "elecraf" spam that got posted to the reflector. I've got a filter set up in my e-mail client to filter out k4...@aol.com Even after all of this, every time I connect to my server to retrieve mail another copy shows up in my spam filter. I'm up to 50+ today alone. Is anyone else seeing this? Do I need to do anything else to get rid of this or do I possibly have some malware lurking on my computer? And no, I didn't click on the link in the spam e-mail. Spammers should be hung by their genitals and slowly skinned with a rusty pocket knife. -- 73, Gary K9GS Check out K9NS on the web: http://www.k9ns.com Greater Milwaukee DX Association: http://www.gmdxa.org Society of Midwest Contesters: http://www.w9smc.com ************************************************ ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
