spam with inline gif image but filename of .com

[Desai, Jason]

Yup - we've been getting a bunch of them too.  Bitdefender and McAfee also
do not detect it as viral.  Perhaps it is just a poorly named attachment by
the spammers?

Jase

Martin Hepworth wrote:
> All
>
> Anyone seeing spam (with bayes poisoning attempts, and talking about
> the Shuttle disaster last year etc) with an inline gif image
> attached, but the filename being somthing.com or emailaddress.com?
> The mimetype is gif.
>
> It's getting trapped by the filename trap in MS, but just wondering if
> anyone else is getting these?
>
> Neither Sophos nor ClamAV is picking it up as viral.

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