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Spammers try new tactics
Spammers are now using out-of-office autoresponders to make sure their emails beat spam filters, according to security experts.


By sending emails that seem to have originated from popular web-based email applications, spammers can trick spam filtering tools, McAfee has warned.

Unlike spam sent by botnets - a network of PCs that have been hacked into and are being controlled by spam gangs - the emails are being sent from legitimate, not spoofed email accounts, meaning that filters will let them through.