Hey guys something isn't right, I am on the road and won't be home until this evening. Do not open any emails from webmaster
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I received an email an hour ago (3p TX time) as a reply to one I sent to you several months ago about a problem with YouTube link coding.
Text of the reply: Good Afternoon! It is regarding our recent conversation. Here is edits you have advised to do:
It then quotes the text of the email I originally sent.
Has an attachment Document_8401.doc (which of course I'm not opening).
Thanks for the heads up!
Okay of all times for this to happen when I'm on the road picking up two absolutely fabulous vintage automatic washers (more to come on that later).
I just changed the password to the webmaster email account, it seems it only affected that one account and it's the only one that I also have tied to yahoo mail for reading, which I suspect may have been the bad link in all this. It only seemed to have sent emails for anyone that sent me an email and I replied to back from May of 2019 to now when the email account was flushed and set up new. There actually aren't that many that emails got sent out from that date on and many got returned deliverable. I hope that this will stop it by changing the password. My apologies everyone, first time in nearly 20 years I've ever had any kind of hacking like this.
Please Keep me posted if you keep getting these spam emails. They are not in my sent folder so they have to be coming from a different server. The automaticwasher server seems untouched by all this (thankfully) so I'm guessing it came from something on my local laptop or yahoo mail.
I just changed the password to the webmaster email account, it seems it only affected that one account and it's the only one that I also have tied to yahoo mail for reading, which I suspect may have been the bad link in all this. It only seemed to have sent emails for anyone that sent me an email and I replied to back from May of 2019 to now when the email account was flushed and set up new. There actually aren't that many that emails got sent out from that date on and many got returned deliverable. I hope that this will stop it by changing the password. My apologies everyone, first time in nearly 20 years I've ever had any kind of hacking like this.
Please Keep me posted if you keep getting these spam emails. They are not in my sent folder so they have to be coming from a different server. The automaticwasher server seems untouched by all this (thankfully) so I'm guessing it came from something on my local laptop or yahoo mail.
repairguy
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Thanks for your hard work to keep the site going!
Over the years I’ve received about a half dozen emails that were either infected with malware or sent from hacked accounts and infected with malware or viruses. Every one of them came from a yahoo email account. Now I regard anything from yahoo with suspicion. It makes me wonder what goes on there.
We've been having wild debauched parties 7x24 over here in Yahoo county.
Not really.
It's just a very popular host web site. I've had few if any problems getting viruses with it. But then I also have good anti-virus protection on this system.
Not really.
It's just a very popular host web site. I've had few if any problems getting viruses with it. But then I also have good anti-virus protection on this system.
arbilab
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Nothing linkable to AW, but coincidentally did get a storm of 13 spams just early this week, which is about 11 times more than the previous 6yrs. [I grumble loudly about Charter cable but their internet runs a tight spam filter.] The source was spoofed to Microsoft. All were disguised with different 'sponsors'/subjects/origins. The point seemed to be getting people to click on the identical "unsubscribe" links, which I didn't. They stopped as quickly as they started.
Never click "unsubscribe" unless you are absolutely certain of the source. I'm also very wary of giving out my email hither and yon to any site that asks for it as a condition of use or features. So it's not something that 'followed me home'.
Never click "unsubscribe" unless you are absolutely certain of the source. I'm also very wary of giving out my email hither and yon to any site that asks for it as a condition of use or features. So it's not something that 'followed me home'.
Wording and sentence structure in Glenn's email hints at Russian hacking. I worked with a wonderful woman who was from Russia and that was the way she talked, with a delightful accent.
