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Mike Gunderloy reports that spammers have found a way around Outlook's image blocking feature (the one that blocks HTML IMG tags in e-mails by default to prevent backdoor downloads). Apparently the spammers are now using the CID prefix when forming the URL (as opposed to HTTP).

I never even knew CID existed, but it's comething called a content identifier. I tried using it in the browser window by itself, and it didn't work. Interesting.