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Spammers dump images, switch to PDF files
Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2007-07-18

Foiled by increasingly accurate corporate spam filters, spammers have dumped pictures for PDFs in their bulk e-mailings, according to the latest data from security firms.

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Re: Spammers dump images, switch to PDF files 2007-07-20
Anonymous
Next Gen spammers will have to figure out how to atttach their junk mail to a sender's legitimate e-mail. There's no blocking that.

The trick is whhether some kind of malware would be required, either on the sender's machine or the mailserver, to make it happen....

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