{"id":445,"date":"2007-03-09T13:33:08","date_gmt":"2007-03-09T21:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/?p=445"},"modified":"2007-05-26T23:37:35","modified_gmt":"2007-05-27T07:37:35","slug":"dealing-with-gif-spam-messages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/?p=445","title":{"rendered":"Dealing with GIF Spam Messages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"mac\/spam.gif\" alt=\"Gif Spam Messages\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"mac\/spam.gif\" alt=\"anti spam\" width=\"177\" height=\"151\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you exchange e-mail messages with friends, family and business associates daily, there is nothing more annoying than spam messages.  Nowadays, cybercriminals embed GIF graphics in e-mail messages so that the messages will not be trashed with e-mail filtering easily.  If you use those online web mail services such Yahoo! Mail, Hotmail and Gmail, there isn&#8217;t much hope, or it&#8217;s up to them to install good e-mail filtering functions.  <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mac\/gif_spam\/gif_spam_1.gif\" alt=\"Gif Spam Messages\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"mac\/gif_spam\/gif_spam_1.gif\" alt=\"anti spam\" width=\"177\" height=\"151\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, if you own a domain and have access to the e-mail filtering function provided by a hosting company, you could get rid of these GIF spam messages.  As you know, the e-mail filtering function works in such a way that you need to identify common words that are found in spam messages.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mac\/gif_spam\/email_filter.gif\" alt=\"spam blocker\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"mac\/gif_spam\/email_filter.gif\" alt=\"anti spam\" width=\"210\" height=\"94\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Anyway, you don&#8217;t want to filter incoming messages with the word GIF per se because many other HTML messages also use GIF graphics.  Note that those yellow criminals <strong>embed<\/strong> GIF graphics and send out <strong>HTML<\/strong> messages, there must be some unique words or symbols characteristic of their messages.  If you can&#8217;t find any, then open the source code.  For example, this particular e-mail message shown below often uses the code that is highlighted.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mac\/gif_spam\/gif_spam_2.gif\" alt=\"spam blocker\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"mac\/gif_spam\/gif_spam_2.gif\" alt=\"anti spam\" width=\"177\" height=\"151\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So simply filter your messages with the following.<\/p>\n<p><strong>FONT face=3DArial size=3D2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After all, we are talking about cyber idiots whose IQ levels are about the same as those of crocodiles.  So there should always be a solution to dealing with them.  Ahh, yes.  We admit that they are good at hiding.  But in the end they are just social pieces of scum and garbage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you exchange e-mail messages with friends, family and business associates daily, there is nothing more annoying than spam messages. Nowadays, cybercriminals embed GIF graphics in e-mail messages so that the messages will not be trashed with e-mail filtering easily. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/?p=445\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":342,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/342"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}