[THIN] Re: OT: spam gifs

Hmmm - not seeing that here -YET.  As far as I'm aware all the SPAM with giff 
attachments we get have either a url or mail to link.  Havn't had any reports 
of an increase in SPAM getting through the filters.  May have to have a look 
through the 8000+ SPAM messages curently blocked to see if there are any with 
this format - and to check how they are getting detected.
 
-Ec

-----Original Message-----
From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of 
Roger Riggins
Sent: 26 April 2006 9:51 AM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: OT: spam gifs



I'm not able to find any hyperlinks in the email. I can't click on the picture 
or anywhere else that I've found. I viewed the html code in the email and this 
is all that is there:

 

 

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">

<HTML><HEAD>

 

<META content="MSHTML 6.00.2600.0000" name=GENERATOR>

<STYLE></STYLE>

</HEAD>

<BODY bgColor=#ffffff>

<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><IMG alt="" hspace=0 

src="cid:001c01c66446$3573aee0$7aa4e248@umu"; align=baseline 

border=0></FONT></DIV>

</BODY></HTML>

 

Roger Riggins   
Network Administrator 
Lutheran Services in Iowa 
w: 319.859.3543 
c: 319.290.5687 
http://www.lsiowa.org 

  

-----Original Message-----
From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
Euan Cooper
Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 4:36 PM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: OT: spam gifs

 

The giff (or other image) is inbedded within the e-mail (as displayed to the 
user) with html code.  If a recipeint clicks anyware on the image it usually 
trys to open a url (sometimes it uses a Mail to: link instead).  While no 
system can catch EVERY spam we are finding the software we are using IS 
catching better than 95% of spam with VERY few false positives.  In our case 
simply stripping the image from inbound messages is NOT an option - firstly 
because we do receive a significant number image files as part of the work we 
do and secondly our staff would moan like heck if they still got hundreds of 
"blank" spam mail.  BTW - what happens if a user clicks on the "white space"  
of one of the messages you have stripped the giff out of - does it still try yo 
open the url?

 

-Ec

 

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