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Old 26th January 2007, 12:27 AM   #1 (permalink)
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MailFoundry and image-based spam

I recently came across an artice on image-based spam of which I've really noticed an increase lately. I'd say about 1 in 3 spam messages I receive are now image spam. Has anyone seen an increase of this in the UK and, more importantly, is this something the MailFoundry can handle?
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Old 26th January 2007, 06:46 AM   #2 (permalink)
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Mailfoundry will filter out image based spam yes.

There is an increase in it.
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Old 26th January 2007, 09:08 AM   #3 (permalink)
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The image based spam can be quite hard to filter as the spammers are tweaking the images in each spam/batch of spam emails sent. This means it is not as simple as looking for emails that contain image X.

Having said that, on the trial the Mailfoundry box did manage to filter out image based spam but it wasn't perfect - but then it wasn't perfect with the regular text spam either.

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