Re: Spam and spam filtering, a problem new to me

[Clive Menzies <clive@clivemenzies.co.uk>]

On (25/09/06 16:31), Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> 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?

There was a thread a while back when the list was being inundated with
messages like "Offical Security Update".  A very simple solution is to
use mailfilter which uses regex filters to reject mail when collecting
from a POP server.  

Regards

Clive


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