Re: [anti-spam-wg] Imaged spam
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From: peter h peter@localhost
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Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 19:51:18 +0200
On Wednesday 21 June 2006 14.35, Frank Altpeter wrote:
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> Hi list,
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> these days i see more and more spam coming in in a quite new format: as a
> HTML mail without any text content but with the spam message contained as
> an image.
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> Does anyone here see similar approaches the last days and are there
> already any ideas to get spamfilters catch this?
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> Le deagh dhùraghd,
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> Frank Altpeter
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This has been common for at least half a year.
Throwing away html-formatted e-mail is a good way to deal with this type
of abuse.
Some virii also uses this encapsulation using viewer vulnerabilities.
--
Peter Håkanson
There's never money to do it right, but always money to do it
again ... and again ... and again ... and again.
( Det är billigare att göra rätt. Det är dyrt att laga fel. )
