Hi Mike,
Hopefully your sudden hearing loss is just wax build up where they can flush
your ear and you're good as new.
When you were receiving gibberish, there's a good chance you may have already
had an intrusion of some sort into your computer. Same with the pop ups
wanting you to update your password. They masquerade as something you are
familiar with and get you to react without noticing that it's not really from
the source you thought it was. They capture your password and hijack your
email account, then use it for nefarious purposes. I had that happen once
about 10 years ago. My Google had a bug that left an unterminated web process
in place if you didn't log off, and some Ukrainian hacker managed to hijack my
email account through that bug. He pretended to be me stuck in the Ukraine in
legal trouble pleading for $$ and sent it to every address google had recorded
under my account. Then he deleted all of my emails and all contacts from my
account. I searched and searched until I finally found someone at google that
said they would make an attempt to restore my account. Within minutes, I got
the whole thing back. All my contacts, all my stored emails, the whole ball of
wax. I considered myself to be very fortunate to have recovered everything.
But, if it's been gone for a few days, the chances of them rolling it back
become less and less. But maybe yours is all still intact if you can only find
a human being to deal with to get it fixed.
One thing for sure, since KRNet can only send text, it can't corrupt your
email. You have to actively do something in order to do corrupt of damage it.
Often times you are induced by what they call "social engineering", such as
getting you to change your password on a spoofed web site.
I know lots of other people interested in the tail beacon X. I guess I'm not
in the market since I already have UAT Out for my ADS-B needs and that is
sufficient for anything I will ever do. The new plane has a wing tip beacon,
so that one is covered as well. I've got the inspection pretty well wrapped up
on the Charger now. I"m just waiting for the radio to come back from the
repair shop, then can install it and reassemble the sheet metal around the
cockpit, then do a new W&B and it will be ready to go. This week I've been
building a HO-360 to go into a Bellanca Scout. It's pretty well wrapped up as
well with just a couple of minor items for me to finish tomorrow. I'll attach
a couple of photos of it.
I have company here next week, so will put myself on vacation. But once they
are gone it looks like I should have a window of time to leap off into tearing
out an oversized jetted tub and building a walk in shower in the guest bath.
I've got all the shower parts laying on the deck waiting for me to have time to
get to it, so I want to knock out that project as soon as is practical for me.
Once it's done, I should have the radio for the Charger, can do that little bit
to it and get it into the air. I'm really looking forward to teaching myself
to fly it.
I don't know anyone shopping for KRs, but I'm mostly out of the loop with the
KR stuff now days. I monitor and occasionally comment on the KRNet, but am
wrapped up in so many other things that I don't know who is looking for what
anymore. If you're up for it, you might think about flying it up to the
Gathering this year as the Gathering will be in conjunction with the Light
Sport Expo, so the plane would get a lot of exposure if you are serious about
selling.
Man, I hate dealing with all the tire kicker idiots when I try to sell a plane.
And I need to sell two planes this summer for the EAA Chapter. I'm not at all
looking forward to dealing with that.
Best regards,
-Jeff Scott
> Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2022 at 3:19 PM
> From: laser...@juno.com
> To: krnet@list.krnet.org
> Subject: Re: KRnet> CAUTION "Your mailbox is full" malware attempt
>
> Some will remember I was receiving code intead of text in my daily digest
> from KRNET. Sometimes the entire email would be in code, sometimes just
> a section. No one elese seemed to be having that problem so I figured
> the problem would work itself out over -time. What happened shortly
> after was a pop-up reminding me to change my password while I was writing
> an an email on Yahoo Mail. I usually ignore these things but, without
> thinking much about it, I went in to change my password. I've done it
> many times over the years without problem. On this occasion, the new
> password was not recognized by Yahoo Mail. So . . . I changed it back to
> the password I'd been using at the time of the pop-up. It was not
> accepted either. I've spent countless hours trying to recover 16 years
> of folders, so far without success.
>
> I don't know that the gibberish I was getting with my KRNEt email had
> anything to do with my loss of access to Yahoo Mail, but it's the only
> two times in all these years that I've had problems with my email. No
> other programs seem to have been affected. I'm back to using Juno,
> meanwhile hoping to get someone at AT&T (Yahoo Mail) who can fix my email
> problem. It may be too much of an assumption to suppose that KRNET has
> become the target of hackers, but I can't help associating the gibberish
> emails I was getting on KRNET was a forewarning. Maybe so, maybe not.
>
> I guess the point of this email is to ignore, or be very careful of, any
> pop-ups that ask you to change your password.
>
> *************************************
>
> It seems I've suddenly lost my hearing. Not completely, but about 90%.
> This happened suddenly, two or three days ago. It's like I've got
> earplugs lodged in my ears or water following a shower. I've done the
> Hydrogen Peroxide wash-out using a small bulb (like a turkey baster) and
> have let the ear canals soak with tea tree oil and regular pharmaceutical
> ear drops. I'll be seeing an ENT doctor later today. I'm hoping it's
> just a build-up of wax. I use earphones a lot, something that
> contributes to a build up of wax but I think that only applies when
> volume is high. I always use normal volume, so that's doubtful . . . but
> I'll get it diagnosed. My mom lost her hearing in the last years of her
> life so maybe I've inherited this issue. I'll never pass a medical with
> hearing like this, plus I've not been flying lately anyway. Dimishing
> enthusiasm is the only reason I can think of for spending so little time
> at the hangar. I'm healthy as hell (except for this sudden ear issue) so
> I've no decent explanation for my lack of interest in flying lately.
> Sparky had lost his enthusiasm for flying too for the last few years
> although he would show up at the hangar every Thursday. The airport will
> never be the same, at least for me.
>
> I haven't put Ken Cottle's little gem on Barnstormer's yet and I'm
> actually not all that enthusiastic about selling it. However, if this
> hearing problem turns out to be serious I'll have no choice.
>
> Everything works fine. No nicks, leaks, hangar rash, or problems of any
> kind. Canopy unscratched and wing skins are as immaculate as when Ken
> and Dan Diehl put them on. This is the plane featured in Dan's
> instruction/installation video. I keep the canopy covered with a large
> soft cotton cloth. Naturally, it's been hangared it's entire life. I
> paid Steve Bennett $13,100 for it and have made some significant
> improvements since I bought it. Naturally I'd like to get close to what
> I have in it but anyone with interest send me a note. I'll deliver the
> plane to wherever the buyer wants it in return for expenses and a ticket
> back home to SAN. I imagine a prospective buyer would like to come to
> KSEE and do an inspection prior to delivery. Certified Day/Night IFR.
> Builder's photograph logs (3) and all other paperwork in order. Payment
> (cash) would be on delivery.
>
> I ordered and received the TailbeaconX along with the fancy EFIS
> controller ($4400) but Uavionix issued a recall on this model immediately
> after shipping it . . . so it doesn't have ADS-B. I wanted the
> TailbeaconX because it meets Canada's, Mexico's, and the rest of the
> world's ADS-B requirements. It works off satellites. Planned to mount
> it inside rear fuselage.
>
> https://tinyurl.com/yscujyt5
>
> Until I get my propbala...@att.net email back my email is
> laser...@juno.com.
>
> Mike
> KSEE
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