Monday, July 2, 2007

Report as Spam

The Spam filters of many mail service providers lately "laisse a desirer" as we say. After asking a couple of friends around me, I found that it is common for many of us to open our mail box and find these spam mails able to bypass the filters in place. Most of us delete them and very few report these mails as spam.

Some of these mails often come with an attachment thats most of us guess it lright as being a virus.



Some don't even contain any message attached like telling you to download the attachment (and sometimes they do contain very funny messages).



I personally often try to download these attachment, and till now all were blocked by the virus scan of my mail service. But today when I tried I was very surprised to find that one of these attachments did make through the virus scan as well.



After some thought I said maybe its no virus after all. it had the "pdf" extension. But nonetheless. I did not download it ^_^

2 comments:

  1. yes these mails r becomin very common in my mail box too i usualy report them as spam so that i dnt receive the meils from the same author again

    other comon extensions r bin or doc or zip files but the most common indications r

    1 we dont know the sender

    2 we have limited texts

    3 or it says email is damaged download the atachmnet

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  2. Yes, i receive these mails everyday with my yahoo mail. I never tried to opened them. But the most comon are the .pdf files.

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