[sniffer] Re: Spam no using CAPTCHA!

2008-06-11 Thread Pete McNeil
Hello Andrew, Wednesday, June 11, 2008, 11:48:55 AM, you wrote: > ... and it also means that OCR based spam filtering is succesful enough > for the spammers to adopt CAPTCHA-style text-obfuscation-in-images as an > evasion method. Possibly, but I wouldn't put too fine a point on it. It's very ea

[sniffer] Re: Spam no using CAPTCHA!

2008-06-11 Thread Greg Coffey
Fortunately, from what I've read, CAPTCHA is about worthless if effectiveness counts. Frustrating for humans and not much of a barrier to the bots. -- Original Message -- From: "Colbeck, Andrew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: "Message Sniffer Community" Dat

[sniffer] Re: Spam no using CAPTCHA!

2008-06-11 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
... and it also means that OCR based spam filtering is succesful enough for the spammers to adopt CAPTCHA-style text-obfuscation-in-images as an evasion method. Andrew. -Original Message- From: Message Sniffer Community [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pete McNeil Sent: Wednesday

[sniffer] Re: Spam no using CAPTCHA!

2008-06-11 Thread Pete McNeil
Hello Daniel, Wednesday, June 11, 2008, 9:19:47 AM, you wrote: > Hi Everyone, > I just sent a spam sample to Message Sniffer, that was using CAPTCHA, it > said CIALIS in the CAPTCHA. I'm curios to see what Pete thinks of this new > tactic? On first look it is simply another way to use an obfusc

[sniffer] Spam no using CAPTCHA!

2008-06-11 Thread Daniel Bayerdorffer
Hi Everyone, I just sent a spam sample to Message Sniffer, that was using CAPTCHA, it said CIALIS in the CAPTCHA. I'm curios to see what Pete thinks of this new tactic? Regards, Daniel -- Daniel Bayerdorffer, VP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Numberall Stamp & Tool Co., Inc. www.numberall.com PO Box 187, S