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Old October 11th 07, 03:42 PM posted to microsoft.public.outlookexpress.general,microsoft.public.outlook
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Default Question about different versions of Outlook/express as indicated in theX-mailer line

I've been identifying some spam based on what appears on the X-mailer
line. I don't use Outlook or OE as an e-mail client. I'm focusing on
spammers who construct (forge) e-mail headers to make the e-mails
appear legit, which frequently means that they construct spams that
appear to have been sent by Outlook or OE.

For example, I'm seeing this in some recent spam:

X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4922.1500

Of my entire e-mail inventory (about 60k e-mails going back to 1998 -
most of it being spam) I have about 2 dozen e-mails (all of them spam)
with the above X-Mailer line.

The first occurrance of that version in my e-mail inventory was in
August 2005, and the most recent was today.

Is 5.50.4922.1500 a valid version of Outlook Express, and if so when
would it have been a current version?

Is there a chronological list of OE versions?
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