Comments on: PDF Spam http://carroll.org.uk/archives/2007/06/20/pdf-spam .: science : activism : social justice :. Tue, 07 Oct 2008 03:53:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Securityphreak http://carroll.org.uk/archives/2007/06/20/pdf-spam#comment-37624 Securityphreak Wed, 01 Aug 2007 13:23:06 +0000 http://carroll.org.uk/archives/2007/06/20/pdf-spam#comment-37624 Looks like the bigger anti spam vendors are up to scratch too: <a href="http://www.gfi.com/whitepapers/pdf-and-image-spam.pdf" rel="nofollow">PDF spam – a step ahead of image spam</a> Looks like the bigger anti spam vendors are up to scratch too: PDF spam – a step ahead of image spam

]]> By: Ben Duncan http://carroll.org.uk/archives/2007/06/20/pdf-spam#comment-37156 Ben Duncan Mon, 23 Jul 2007 14:00:28 +0000 http://carroll.org.uk/archives/2007/06/20/pdf-spam#comment-37156 Checkout a module I wrote called “PDFassassin” which is a plugin for SpamAssassin. This can scan emails for PDF attachments, uses the pdftotext utility to extract the text for Spam messages, and also extracts images and uses OCR to pin-point Spam messages embedded in pictures. This plugin can really help prevent the wave of PDF spam messages from hitting your mbox Details at: http://blog.atmail.com/?p=61 Checkout a module I wrote called “PDFassassin” which is a plugin for SpamAssassin.

This can scan emails for PDF attachments, uses the pdftotext utility to extract the text for Spam messages, and also extracts images and uses OCR to pin-point Spam messages embedded in pictures.

This plugin can really help prevent the wave of PDF spam messages from hitting your mbox

Details at:

http://blog.atmail.com/?p=61

]]> By: Alton Yu http://carroll.org.uk/archives/2007/06/20/pdf-spam#comment-35875 Alton Yu Thu, 28 Jun 2007 05:36:26 +0000 http://carroll.org.uk/archives/2007/06/20/pdf-spam#comment-35875 II really hope you're right. II really hope you’re right.

]]> By: Steve Basford http://carroll.org.uk/archives/2007/06/20/pdf-spam#comment-35724 Steve Basford Tue, 26 Jun 2007 19:20:06 +0000 http://carroll.org.uk/archives/2007/06/20/pdf-spam#comment-35724 download the scam.ndb.gz and phish.ndb.gz files from Http://sanesecurity.com/clamav and it will now catch the pdf stock spams download the scam.ndb.gz and phish.ndb.gz files from
Http://sanesecurity.com/clamav and it will now catch the pdf stock spams

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