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An easy way to bypass Outlook's spam filter
From: "Richard M. Smith" <rms () computerbytesman com>
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 16:08:03 -0400
I've been getting a lot of Viagra spam messages over the past week in my inbox. The spammers have found a trivial method of bypassing the Outlook spam filter: They set the "From" email address to my own email address. This trick also turns off the Outlook image blocker because I've configured the image blocker to trust myself. I do this so that images show up in press articles that I've archived as email message. Back to the drawing boards I guess for the Outlook spam filter...... Richard _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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