animated GIF spam

2006-08-21 Thread Chip M.
While skimming thru my daily rejected spam pile, did a double take when a GIF spam seemed to "blink" at me. Thought it was a sw glitch at first... then realized the sneaky Borg had adapted again. Took a look at the frames in PaintShopPro's AnimationShop, and the first three are all but blank (we

Re: animated GIF spam

2006-08-21 Thread John Rudd
On Aug 21, 2006, at 10:13 PM, Chip M. wrote: While skimming thru my daily rejected spam pile, did a double take when a GIF spam seemed to "blink" at me. Thought it was a sw glitch at first... then realized the sneaky Borg had adapted again. Took a look at the frames in PaintShopPro's Animat

Re: animated GIF spam

2006-08-21 Thread Spamassassin List
While skimming thru my daily rejected spam pile, did a double take when a GIF spam seemed to "blink" at me. Thought it was a sw glitch at first... then realized the sneaky Borg had adapted again. Took a look at the frames in PaintShopPro's AnimationShop, and the first three are all but blank (we

Re: animated GIF spam

2006-08-21 Thread Chip M.
At 10:26 PM 8/21/2006 -0700, John Rudd wrote: >I also heard that interlaced gif spam is appearing now. Yes, I saw that post, however there wasn't a publicly available sample. Any such would be much appreciated. >It'd be interesting to see how to counter them. Should be easy. One approach is "pi

Re: animated GIF spam

2006-08-22 Thread decoder
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Rudd wrote: > > On Aug 21, 2006, at 10:13 PM, Chip M. wrote: > >> While skimming thru my daily rejected spam pile, did a double take >> when a >> GIF spam seemed to "blink" at me. Thought it was a sw glitch at >> first... >> then realized the sne

Re: animated GIF spam

2006-08-22 Thread Logan Shaw
On Mon, 21 Aug 2006, John Rudd wrote: On Aug 21, 2006, at 10:13 PM, Chip M. wrote: While skimming thru my daily rejected spam pile, did a double take when a GIF spam seemed to "blink" at me. Thought it was a sw glitch at first... then realized the sneaky Borg had adapted again. Took a look a

Re: animated GIF spam

2006-08-22 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Tuesday, August 22, 2006 1:07 AM -0500 "Chip M." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: For interlaced ... I have no idea. Depends a lot on how the interlaced images are stored, I guess. Yes, exactly. Until there's samples, I'm not going to worry about it. There's also progressive JPEG.

Re: animated GIF spam

2006-08-22 Thread decoder
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kenneth Porter wrote: > --On Tuesday, August 22, 2006 1:07 AM -0500 "Chip M." > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> For interlaced ... I have no idea. Depends a lot on how the >>> interlaced images are stored, I guess. >> >> Yes, exactly. Until there's