They have *got* to be kidding...

[cellio]

From: Microsoft Outlook Express Team <oe5@aol.com>
To: undisclosed-recipients: ;
Subject: Welcome to Outlook Express 5

These days, anyone who doesn't double-check headers on stuff like this is really asking for it. (Yes, there was a virus attached. I use pine, though, not Outlook Express, so I don't have to care.)

Oh, and the MIME settings were wrong for the HTML message body.

Comments

Spam Rule Number One

[tangerinpenguin.livejournal.com]

If you can send out thousands of copies for free, a vanishingly small percentage of "successes" pays for the strategy.

[And the MIME settings may have been intentional - there have been some exploits that mess with the encodings to try and drive a buffer overrun.]

Re: Spam Rule Number One

[cellio]

Payoff: true, true. And I suppose new gullible people are getting dumped onto the net all the time.

[And the MIME settings may have been intentional - there have been some exploits that mess with the encodings to try and drive a buffer overrun.]

Interesting. I knew there were overflow-based attacks, but I didn't know how they worked.