Just because you received mail on that address doesn't mean the email address was harvested from one of the databases from avast.
Yes it does, if this is the only place I ever use it.
In fact, I have never used the address to send from, and it's been years since it previously received any mail, when I registered at the forum.
The ONLY database that could contain it is here.
If the email provider was hacked, I'd be getting this spam from the hundreds of emails that I use at other forums and for other reasons. But it's ONLY from the address I created for Avast.
Got one more this morning. Again ONLY to the Avast address.
So, thanks a bunch Avast for being so careful with our data.
Well you are wrong, email spoofing is the oldest trick in the book
No. Spoofing has nothing to do with it.
The emails do not purport to be from Avast.
The issue is the TO address (i.e., my unique one only used for Avast), not the FROM address which anyone can fake.
Try reading a post past the subject line before replying.
I'll reword my headline, didn't want to be too verbose since it was all explained in the post, but I guess I went over some people's tl;dr limit.
Did my random email address generator with brute force A.I. technology really found it Pondus?
Correct a old and simple trick, they guessed it.
When i look at the header it is send out to probably hundred different combination of my name and one was correct
My address is 11 random characters. Would take trillions of tries.
Anyway, I knew I'd get a bunch of people who insisted it was my fault and that I'm a clueless idiot who doesn't know what an email address is. For anyone who isn't an evangelist, take care.