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Thursday, March 23, 2006
Latest spam able to get past filters
Spammers are using increasingly sophisticated means to get their messages past spam filters.
Sophos, developer of anti-virus and anti-spam software, has warned email users against responding, clicking on any links or making purchases through unsolicited emails.
It said unsolicited emails or those from unknown senders must not be opened and must be deleted outright.
Innocent
According to a document from Sophos, spam mails are unwanted messages pitching different kinds of products entering your email inbox.
They may contain messages that appear innocent and use smart techniques that attempt to confuse the filter’s ability to differentiate spam from non-spam.
With the widespread adoption of adaptive filters, spammers have begun to fill their messages with large amounts of non-spam-like text.
“They hope that by adding innocent text, their messages will fool, and hence bypass, the filter and be read by an end user.”
Sophos said that once a message gets through, the end user is likely to train his or her spam filter on that message, making the spam filter believe that the innocent words are indicators of spam.
Sophos advised that when sending email messages to a large number of recipients, one should also use the blind copy (cc) field to conceal email addresses. (JBN)
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