[THIN] Re: OT: spam gifs

If the gif image is opening from a url then your said system works fine.
We are talking when gif image is embedded in the email. Although lists
do work well spammers use throw away domains that last in some cases as
little as 24 hours and the lists can't keep up with that.

 

Matthew Shrewsbury, MCSE+Internet MCSE 2000 CCA Server+

Network Manager

-----Original Message-----
From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Euan Cooper
Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 4:35 PM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: OT: spam gifs

 

Our anti spam filter catches most of these type off spam - they all use
html to display the giff (or tiff of jpg) and an <a href> to point ot a
web site - by comparing the url with lists of known SPAM urls we get a
very high "hit rate" on this type of spam.   The vendor maintains the
list of known spam urls, so as new ones are found our system detects
them.

 

In our case we could not simpy block image files as we have legitimate
business needs to allow images in e-mails

 

-Ec

        -----Original Message-----
        From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Matthew Shrewsbury
        Sent: 25 April 2006 4:26 AM
        To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
        Subject: [THIN] Re: OT: spam gifs

        I banned *.gif files last year and have not regretted it. I use
a open relay filter that just removes the *.gif files from the email. 

         

        Matthew Shrewsbury, MCSE+Internet MCSE 2000 CCA Server+

        Network Manager

        -----Original Message-----
        From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Roger Riggins
        Sent: Monday, April 24, 2006 11:53 AM
        To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
        Subject: [THIN] OT: spam gifs

         

        We've recently started receiving some spam that is simply a .gif
that contains the text so the spam filters aren't able to check content.
It appears that the only way to block this is to ban messages that
contain .gifs. Is it going to eventually come to that? Are any of you
running into the same dilemma?

         

        Thanks,

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

         

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