Re: [anti-spam-wg] Imaged spam

[peter h peter@localhost]

On Wednesday 21 June 2006 14.35, Frank Altpeter wrote:
> 
> Hi list,
> 
> 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.
> 
> Does anyone here see similar approaches the last days and are there
> already any ideas to get spamfilters catch this?
> 
> 
> Le deagh dhùraghd,
> 
> 	Frank Altpeter
> 
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   

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        again ... and again ... and again ... and again.
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