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Re: OT: What Does This Mean?

I got one from support@community.net which is the main email address I use. It was telling me that they had seen a large number of emails coming from my machine, and they feared I was trojaned. They provided a nice file and instructions on how to run it to clear things up. As an ISP systems admin, I knew better than to ever do anything like that but I worried that others might fall for it.

In my case the use of support@ my ISP was pretty funny since community.net died years ago and has no support section.

Re: OT: What Does This Mean?

I like the spam with random words or gibberish, like this

Quote:

Originally sent by tehdrbcumvig@usa.com
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Hpllgdfbex Afrbesdbxc Pikbeab atoxkxfe uripyey fqrob.
sgxehbcwi bbsvlb jfuasxxr hqubqrw jszjtykel dnmgvvo qffjr ztdynn
Weoiwwso vlujlmgd mhoxfplyv Setmldgaw intvyodn Pjngmdd Huzsnuzihs ocinmvr favdmtj
ymsdw Youqlnqx rkieax nimnoyii Hidbivsko neavkt bsfhfjv Qnpcphnen zsybxnn,
jqqwtgmep Ebarmuim tqjjnpta gojszvu zhglwox. ocjqnw pbvwao
Qraapnuv Lmyzkg xrjkozcso sswugs ozzfycf ilbemlti osxwgnihv fxqeb, twpxw

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">The ones with random words that are acutally properly arranged (as nouns, verbs, pronouns and whatnot should be) and conjugated but make no sense are good too. I don't have one around right now, but I may edit one into this post later.

Can anyone tell me why text like this is included in an advertizement? It doesn't keep Hotmail from filtering it out as spam, so I'm wondering what it's supposed to be doing for the advertiser.

Re: OT: What Does This Mean?

The point of those is twofold. Some of them have real HTML Messages that are supposed to be seen instead of the gibberish. That is supposed to defeat spam filters.

The others are designed to confuse adaptive spam filters. The idea is if you mark enough of them as junk it'll think ALL your mail is junk and you'll stop using it.