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Re: No good spamming bastards are using new tricks to get by the filters

2003-01-20 11:22:52
LuKreme <kremels(_at_)kreme(_dot_)com> queried:

On Monday, Jan 20, 2003, [. . .] dman(_at_)nomotek(_dot_)com wrote:

 :0:  # 021109 () base-64-encoded html head is shrouding more than 
charset
  * ^Content-Type:(.*\<)?text/(html|plain)
  * ^Content-Transfer-Encoding:(.*\<)?base64

Content-Transfer-Encoding appears in the headers?

Certainly.  Take a look at any representative spam collection.
Here is some simple visual corroboration.  The folder .myspam contains
the most recent 100 spam message I've received.

 6:28pm [~/Mail/.myspam] 408[0]> ls -fA | wc -l
     100

 6:28pm [~/Mail/.myspam] 409[0]> foreach f ( * )
foreach? sed -n '1,/^$/{ /^Content-Transfer-Encoding/p; }' $f >> CTE
foreach? end

 6:29pm [~/Mail/.myspam] 410[0]> wc -l CTE
      41 CTE

 6:29pm [~/Mail/.myspam] 411[0]> grep -c base64 CTE
18


So there are eighteen such suspect headers in my most recent one hundred
spam messages; and forty-one CTE headers overall.

-- 
dman


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