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Nonsense Email
Why am I getting all this
gibberish-filled email?
QUESTION:
Recently I've been getting a lot of weird email messages. They aren't
exactly spam - at least they aren't trying to sell anything that I can
see and they don't contain any links for me to click. They're just full
of gibberish, what appears to be random words and phrases. Who in the
world is sending these things and why? -- Genie L.
ANSWER:
You're right: they aren't spam, but they are sent by spammers. The point
isn't to get you to buy anything, but to get you to mark the unwanted
messages as spam in order to confuse your Bayesian spam filters. Most
anti-spam programs now use some form of Bayesian filtering - this is a
way of using statistical methods to classify messages as spam (or not).
The software "learns" to recognize what you consider to be spam based on
the messages that you mark as spam. It's a great idea and works well -
except when the filters are "poisoned" by lots of messages that contain
large amounts of random words and phrases that's likely to appear in
legitimate messages.
Bayesian poisoning messages sometimes consist of random words and
sometimes a block of text from a literary work or the like. In either
case, the goal is to confuse the filters and render them useless.
It's also possible that even though they don't contain links, some of
the gibberish messages may contain web beacons. These are tiny,
transparent (and thus invisible) graphics files placed in HTML email
messages. When you open the message, your email client downloads the
graphic from the sender's server. This lets the spammer know that the
email address is a "live" one.
Preventative Solutions:
A good SPAM filter will remove these messages.
The staff at
WinHaven Consulting also has experience with
many products not listed below. This lack of listing may be due
to the more complicated nature of the products or because WinHaven
LLC does not recommend the product. (BEWARE! There are many malicious
programs that pass themselves off as solutions to your problems!)
For more information on any product listed or otherwise,
you may contact WinHaven directly.
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(920) 582-7574
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Last Modified:
09/10/2010
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