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Story: 'Spim' threat hovers on horizon

Posted by: M Lyne (Sunday 4 April 2004, 5:38 AM)

I used to get Spim all the time on Yahoo! Messenger, some were clearly "bots". At first it would be an introductory "Hi" message, then a link. It progressed to only sending the link if you sent a reply. In the end I actually had a good 5 sentence discussion about how I thought they were a 'bot' and then they sent me the spam link. It even said "Huh? What's a bot?", not exactly Turing-compliant I'll grant you but with minor tweaks would easily foil Merak Mails Server and FaceTime's confirmation message filters.