How do you spell vi@|g|r@? There are at least 600,426,974,379,824,381,952 different ways and spammers are now using this trick to bypass Bayesian spam filters [cockeyed.com]. I have received quite a few spams in the last week where standard English characters have been replaced with accented characters or other look-alike symbols. It's an interesting technique, but one that will be easily detected by heuristic based spam filters. And so the arms race continues... 10:20:19 AM    comment []