[SC-Help] Re: Thunderbird and base 64 spam

[Ant]

"hercules" wrote:
> I've just encountered a new form of spam with embedded base 64 coding, nothing
> new here you'd think.

Nope.

> When viewed in Thunderbird it comes across as plain text, when you attempt to
> view the source of the message using control 'u' it comes across as a base 64
> file with headers visible, nothing else, no html viewable or similar.

That's because it *is* plain text (not html) encoded in base 64.

> Me thinks the spammers have found a bug in Thunderbirds display parser.

Why? Tbird is decoding the b64 to plain text. When you view the
source you see the undecoded b64.

> I'll be returning to an ascii only email program ASAP...

Base 64 *is* ascii, and that's what you'd see if the prog didn't
decode it.