[Mimedefang] New way of obfuscating text

Kelson Vibber kelson at speed.net
Wed Feb 11 12:25:21 EST 2004


At 09:32 PM 2/10/2004, Randy Hammock wrote:
>Have not seen this one yet; however, I've recently gotten SPAM where they
>set the text color to be the same as the background color. They used this
>mostly around blocks of random words (to fool Bayesian filters) and around
>other random letters to obfuscate the words they wanted hidden from the spam
>checker but show up when read.

If the text is the same color as the background on SPAM, it's waaay to old 
to eat!

Seriously, though, I think SpamAssassin already looks for that.

(SPAM = processed lunch meat, and spam = junk email: 
http://www.spam.com/ci/ci_in.htm )


Kelson Vibber
SpeedGate Communications <www.speed.net> 




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