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Re: Word Doc spam

by Rob Poe :: Rate this Message:

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I got one of these too...

>>> Kenneth Porter <shiva@...> 8/8/2006 8:07 AM >>>
--On Tuesday, August 08, 2006 10:27 AM +0200 Patrick Sneyers
<cgpro@...> wrote:

> Received in my .mac (basically a spam bin) account.
> http://www.triksys.be/docspam.jpg = screenshot of word doc attached.
>
> Neer seen this before....
> Is this new, or old news?
> 211.16.219.135 is in all kinds of blacklists though.

I was surprised to see one of these as well.

I'd always thought that it would be nice for the Open Office people to
create a simple command-line utility to convert Word files to plain text
for spam checking. Or it could strip any macros for virus protection.



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