On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 02:14:49PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > Over tha past few weeks, I have started receiving spam email that > contains text the is all well formed words, but doesn't make sense as > a spam message, or as any other sort of communication. I think I have > found what is going on: > > The email *does* contain a message. It is contained in a .gif or .png > or other image format file. These are not pictures of naked ladies, > but images of text that touts various penny stocks. If I didn't use > mutt, I might not have had so much puzzlement over them. I suppose > with Outlook all the user sees is the image, which is clearly spam, > but the user doesn't see what the spam filter sees, so, it seems, no > amount of filter fiddling will protect against this. What to do? Are > there new filtering techniques beyond spamassassin? > Reject anything with a .gif or .png attachment?
Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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