Control Freak

TA!ControlFreak!Plain

15 September 2003

Description

Use of non-printing characters, especially in the Subject and especially NUL to mess up filters that use 0 terminated strings.

Example

VBSpam


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Control Freak

TA!ControlFreak!Plain

Description

Example

Control Freak

See also