Nothing stops spam messages with images

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Nothing stops spam messages with images

Spamfighter says he does, experience showing otherwise

silverbytes

11:16 pm on Jan 16, 2007 (gmt 0)

I'm still sick of spam. Now they come with images and lots of unsense words to confuse filters.

I was glad when saw spamfigher saying they stop that too.
Tried that too and I can say I get same amount of spam with images (mostly pharmaceutical) and the software only gives me more work to do. Doesn't filter anything.

I can't find any solution to filter those. (I filter with some success others, but no images)

jessejump

1:30 am on Jan 17, 2007 (gmt 0)

If somebody knew how to stop this, they'd probably announce it, release and sell it.

I get dozens of stock tip junk every day.

silverbytes

3:56 pm on Jan 17, 2007 (gmt 0)

Spamfighter did, but as said. It doesn't work.

aleksl

5:59 pm on Jan 17, 2007 (gmt 0)

We send email to our own email server, where our spam filters look for image tags like these:

That takes care of 90% of these image spams. Yeah, sure, it'll block occasional real email...but that's the price.

europeforvisitors

11:20 pm on Jan 17, 2007 (gmt 0)

OnlyMyEmail does a great job of intercepting spam e-mails of all types and holding them on its server until I can review and purge the list. I've got my account set to block direct-mail pitches (along with general spam, fraudulent e-mails, and viruses), and I'd guess that maybe one spam e-mail in several thousand gets through. What's more, there are very, very few false positives. It's really quite an amazing service for US $4 per month, which covers three e-mail addresses at the same or separate domains. (My only gripe is with the company's support team, which seems to resent any kind of polite complaint or suggestion.)