Image SPAM (Played out)

I know that most of you are tired of hearing about Image SPAM. It seems like a new article is written ever day or so:
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=image+spam
I'm curious. I have to give a short presentation to some management in IS, and would like to know what others are seeing and what you're doing to combat it. While the articles seem to indicate that it is growing, it seems to have dropped off (at least for me) in the past couple of weeks. Anyone have any idea what some of the AntiSPAM companies are doing to be able to claim that they're blocking it? I think that Senderbase is what is blocking most of ours, but I'm not completely sure of that. To be honest, I haven't had much time to really dig into it lately.

I've seen a big increase in the amount of image spam, I spoke with Ironport support and they had me use the following filter:
stock_spam:
if ((recv-listener == "IncomingMail") AND (body-size < 63488) AND
(attachment-filetype == "gif") AND (attachment-size < 61440) AND
(body-contains("(?i)cid:[0-9a-zA-Z]")))
quarantine ("Policy");
That filter will catch a lot of image spam. Unfortunately, it will also catch a lot of legitimate messages, too. Within two minutes of enabling that filter on our system, it had quarantined 8 messages, but 2 of them were from vendors we work with regularly. Seems to be quite a few legitimate applications that generate messages containing inline graphic attachments, and this filter will stop all of them.
I've noticed that Outlook with Word as the editor will generate messages with inline graphic attachments, so anyone who uses this and includes a logo in their signature will run into this. Just FYI. I've seen messages from Microsoft support people get caught by these types of filters. Not good for business, so we just have to put up with the spam until we can find a better way to filter it out, but this isn't the solution.

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