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RE: Something new in my inbox
From: "tb288766" <tb288766 () cbnbotlek nl>
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 10:24:51 +0200
Rob, Have a look at http://www.asciitable.com/ there you see the encoding =2E HEX ASCII for . (DOT) :-) -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: Arunas Norvaisa [mailto:an () al-qaedah net] Verzonden: dinsdag 28 september 2004 22:17 Aan: security-basics () securityfocus com CC: Rob Hughes Onderwerp: Re: Something new in my inbox On Tuesday, September 28, 2004, 4:35:25 AM, Rob Hughes wrote about Something new in my inbox: RH> I've noticed an increasing amount of spam that's using what looks like a RH> broken attempt to mime-encode a url. An example would be RH> http://www=2euwantedx=2einfo/rm/news_out=2ehtm. Does anyone recognize RH> this encoding type? I need to create some spamassassin rules to pick it RH> up. The only place I've seen the "=2e" stuff is in broken outlook RH> emails, so any help or pointers to sites with info on this encoding will RH> be appreciated. Rob, I think it's a simple 'dot' (like in '.'), encoded in some obscure manner. :) -- Greetz, Arunas Norvaisa - Little Guy, The Masses Inc. Composed in Kaunas, Lithuania on Tuesday, September 28, 2004 11:16 PM +3:00 I bet the human brain is a kludge. - Marvin Minsky
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- Re: Something new in my inbox Arunas Norvaisa (Sep 30)
- RE: Something new in my inbox tb288766 (Oct 04)
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- Re: Something new in my inbox Anirudhya Mitra (Oct 13)