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| + | ====== What is a word salad? ====== | ||
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| + | **Word salad** is a term given to a spammer technique that is supposed to fool filters into not tagging a message as spam. The technique involves hiding or attaching a list of supposedly non-spammy words to spam messages. | ||
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| + | Here's an actual example: | ||
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| + | The spammer tried to make those words appear in a very light gray so you wouldn' | ||
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| + | Word salad ranges from trivial examples like the one above, to attaching the complete text of news articles copied from the web. | ||
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| + | If you want to find out why POPFile was never bothered by this " | ||
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