Whenever you see ISO-8859 encoding for a subject, you should just simply assume it is spam, or at least I have never see a false positive on this.

SUBJECT 15 CONTAINS =?ISO-8859-1?b?

ISO-8859 is Latin-1, which is the standard character set and there is no need to be encoding Latin-1 except to get around content filters.

Declude doesn't decode base64 encoded subjects, so running filters against this stuff is useless, though I believe that SpamChk will do decoding...but again, I don't see why bother until some mail client starts exhibiting this behavior (please speak up if you have seen this).

This is a perfect example of how an obfuscation method can be more indicative than the content itself.

Matt



Mike Leonard wrote:

John Tolmachoff (Lists) wrote:

How can you decode the encoded subject lines so as to see what it is and
then create a filter?

Things like:

=?ISO-8859-1?b?RUVOVCBjaGVjayBzdG9jayBjaGFydA==?=
=?ISO-8859-1?b?RUVOVCBQcm9kdWN0aW9uIFByb2dyZXNz?=
=?ISO-8859-1?B?SGk=?=




I've only been able to seen the actual subject in a mail client.
Here are the filter entries I have for the screwy encodings:

SUBJECT 40 CONTAINS =?ISO-8859-1?b?
SUBJECT 40 CONTAINS =?koi8-r
SUBJECT 40 CONTAINS =?windows-1251?B?

Mike




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