spammers are tricky…
ok, we all know spammers suck. they are evil people. but they are also tricky, smart people… i haven’t put a real spam filter in place yet, but i’ve been using poptray to poll and preview my email on a few accounts. it’s a nifty little freeware program that allows me to delete spams before outlook gets them. i came across an interesting email yesterday – no real text content, just base64 encoding. i thought, virus. but today i pulled up the message in outlook express, and the spam magically appeared! so any program filtering based on text content would pass the message along. interesting tactic, i thought. i’m not up on the latest spam filters, so maybe they take this into accoung, but those spammers are tricky!
yes, i realize i shouldn’t use outlook (or outlook express) anyway, but it’s nice for some things… and i haven’t gone 100% linux on the desktop yet…
oh ok, squirrel mail shows the message as well… maybe it’s a common method for email…