Animated Noise

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30 August 2006

Description

Sending spam as an animated GIF with very short initial frames that consist of random noise and a final persistent frame with the actual spam message

Submitted by Nick Fitzgerald.

Example

VBSpam


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Animated Noise

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Animated Noise

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