It's just another form of decimal notation scam. I have a program in my palm to convert just such little beasties :) Users with a clue somtimes use the same aproach to defeat web filters. THey want their porn that bad at work, fine. I just get to show the boss that cool little palm ap and show him where the decimal and or hex IP goes to ;)
Chris -----Original Message----- From: Matthew Cline [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 7:13 PM To: Spamassassin List Subject: Re: [SAtalk] New spammer trick (aka: stupid browser trick) On Tuesday 08 October 2002 02:10 pm, Theo Van Dinter wrote: > I just got some spam that included an URL like: > > http:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Now, we all know the www.yahoo.com bit is a username, but the "hostname" > threw me off. Sure enough, at least IE and Mozilla both convert the > hex to IP. Stupid browsers. Nothing like that in either of my corpuses. -- Give a man a match, and he'll be warm for a minute, but set him on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life. ICQ: 132152059 | Advanced SPAM filtering software: http://spamassassin.org ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
