Comments on: Image spam: Spam gets more canny http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/07/27/image-spam-spam-gets-more-canny/ Tips and add-ons to make Apple Mail / Mail.app even better Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:59:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Hawk Wings » Blog Archive » Mail.app rule fix for image spam http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/07/27/image-spam-spam-gets-more-canny/comment-page-1/#comment-10581 Hawk Wings » Blog Archive » Mail.app rule fix for image spam Tue, 01 Aug 2006 12:56:46 +0000 http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/07/27/image-spam-spam-gets-more-canny/#comment-10581 [...] MacInTouch reader Bill Benson posted a rule in the .Mac section of that site yesterday which will catch much of the current plague of image spam. [...] [...] MacInTouch reader Bill Benson posted a rule in the .Mac section of that site yesterday which will catch much of the current plague of image spam. [...]

]]> By: Lars http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/07/27/image-spam-spam-gets-more-canny/comment-page-1/#comment-10433 Lars Sat, 29 Jul 2006 13:23:32 +0000 http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/07/27/image-spam-spam-gets-more-canny/#comment-10433 Most text based spam these days get filtered out, but the Mail.app filter can't seem to get it's head around these image spams. :| Most text based spam these days get filtered out, but the Mail.app filter can’t seem to get it’s head around these image spams. :|

]]> By: Greg http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/07/27/image-spam-spam-gets-more-canny/comment-page-1/#comment-10400 Greg Sat, 29 Jul 2006 02:16:43 +0000 http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/07/27/image-spam-spam-gets-more-canny/#comment-10400 indeed - mail junk mail filter has been acting terribly lately. it simply no longer works! i am in the process of shifting to thunderbird. just have to decide whether to access my mac.com mail using pop or imap indeed – mail junk mail filter has been acting terribly lately. it simply no longer works! i am in the process of shifting to thunderbird. just have to decide whether to access my mac.com mail using pop or imap

]]> By: Bob Perdriau http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/07/27/image-spam-spam-gets-more-canny/comment-page-1/#comment-10339 Bob Perdriau Fri, 28 Jul 2006 04:21:18 +0000 http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/07/27/image-spam-spam-gets-more-canny/#comment-10339 Tim, Based on some comments on this site and others I've tried to put together a more detailed look at the graphic spam problem. A lot of people do not seen to grasp the issue. Take a look. http://web.mac.com/bobperdriau/iWeb/Site/Blog/Blog.html Bob Tim,

Based on some comments on this site and others I’ve tried to put together a more detailed look at the graphic spam problem. A lot of people do not seen to grasp the issue. Take a look.

http://web.mac.com/bobperdriau/iWeb/Site/Blog/Blog.html

Bob

]]> By: MacStansbury http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/07/27/image-spam-spam-gets-more-canny/comment-page-1/#comment-10332 MacStansbury Fri, 28 Jul 2006 01:46:09 +0000 http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/07/27/image-spam-spam-gets-more-canny/#comment-10332 I've been getting a lot of that recently from one of the larger websites I work for. It has one of those opt-in tips emails that's sent to everybody, and lately the spammers got to sending the image only-emails. Now, it's morphed where they are still sending the same image-spam, but they've added worthless text to keep the image-only files going strait to the deleted folder on the server. So, I fight back with an app that I stopped using because other filters were working well enough, <a href="http://junkmatcher.sourceforge.net/Home/index.html" rel="nofollow">JunkMatcher</a>. And, guess what? Works like a charm. Adding JunkMatcher to Mail pretty much ensures you're as safe as you're going to be. I’ve been getting a lot of that recently from one of the larger websites I work for. It has one of those opt-in tips emails that’s sent to everybody, and lately the spammers got to sending the image only-emails.

Now, it’s morphed where they are still sending the same image-spam, but they’ve added worthless text to keep the image-only files going strait to the deleted folder on the server. So, I fight back with an app that I stopped using because other filters were working well enough, JunkMatcher.

And, guess what? Works like a charm. Adding JunkMatcher to Mail pretty much ensures you’re as safe as you’re going to be.

]]> By: dave http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/07/27/image-spam-spam-gets-more-canny/comment-page-1/#comment-10292 dave Thu, 27 Jul 2006 17:01:04 +0000 http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/07/27/image-spam-spam-gets-more-canny/#comment-10292 yeah, so my gmail account has been overloaded with this, and marking as spam does nothing....not sure why there can not be a SIMPLE rule that says (for example) if email has no content (text) and only image attachments and is NOT from a contact in my contact book then it gets tagged as spam - wouldn't that be easier? the images are assorted sizes and colors, but almost all contain zero body text.... yeah, so my gmail account has been overloaded with this, and marking as spam does nothing….not sure why there can not be a SIMPLE rule that says (for example) if email has no content (text) and only image attachments and is NOT from a contact in my contact book then it gets tagged as spam – wouldn’t that be easier? the images are assorted sizes and colors, but almost all contain zero body text….

]]> By: Gibbons Burke http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/07/27/image-spam-spam-gets-more-canny/comment-page-1/#comment-10281 Gibbons Burke Thu, 27 Jul 2006 13:30:46 +0000 http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/07/27/image-spam-spam-gets-more-canny/#comment-10281 I wonder if the Junk Filter is training itself on the text in the subject line as well as the mail content, or other fields of the mail header? I have a hunch that Mail isn't considering that information but it might be a useful thing to include in the Junk Filter training regime. Unlike the content, which allows many ways to disguise the content with html tags and images, the subject line, and other headers are required by the protocol to be straight text. I wonder if the Junk Filter is training itself on the text in the subject line as well as the mail content, or other fields of the mail header?

I have a hunch that Mail isn’t considering that information but it might be a useful thing to include in the Junk Filter training regime. Unlike the content, which allows many ways to disguise the content with html tags and images, the subject line, and other headers are required by the protocol to be straight text.

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