Comments on: New spam http://tech.puredanger.com/2008/02/24/new-spam/ Alex Miller's technical blog Tue, 13 May 2008 18:16:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Michael http://tech.puredanger.com/2008/02/24/new-spam/#comment-29796 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:46:18 +0000 http://tech.puredanger.com/2008/02/24/new-spam/#comment-29796 This is similar to image spam, where an image of words is used instead of the words themselves. This might work better since a lot of email programs automatically block images. Spam is big business. Symantec has shifted a lot of resources towards spam and away from anti-virus. With more sophisticated techniques like this, they are reduced to using white or black lists. This is similar to image spam, where an image of words is used instead of the words themselves. This might work better since a lot of email programs automatically block images.

Spam is big business. Symantec has shifted a lot of resources towards spam and away from anti-virus. With more sophisticated techniques like this, they are reduced to using white or black lists.

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