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White Paper Similar to other spam filtering products, SpamAssassin has the ability to filter out spam email using Bayesian filters. After it has been trained, it will automatically mark messages similar to those used in training as spam or ham based on what it... [03 Jul 2008]
Getting Into the Address Book: Deliverability’s Silver Bullet … if You Can Hit the Target
White Paper On average, 17% of delivered messages to major ISPs do not get through to your customer’s inbox because of filters and other spam blocking techniques. Simply getting customers to their company into their address book, email marketers, can improve... [03 Jul 2008]
Fooling and Poisoning Adaptive Spam Filters
White Paper Spammers are using increasingly sophisticated means to get their messages past adaptive spam filters. This white paper explores these methods, plus the uses of concealed HTML code and web bugs to fool adaptive filters. [03 Jul 2008]
The Rise of CSS Spam: Everything Old is New Again - An Insight Into the Latest Spamming Technique
White Paper Spammers have started to use Cascading Style Sheets (or CSS) in spam messages to obscure suspicious words or parts of a message, in the knowledge that few spam filters have been updated to understand CSS. [03 Jul 2008]
PlexMailer 1.6.2 White Paper
White Paper Most corporations' filters are primitive indeed such as blocking all messages from the popular free Web e-mail service Hotmail in an attempt to choke the flood of spam. Still others `black hole' e-mail that comes from unregistered Internet domains... [03 Jul 2008]
Detection of Unsolicited and Inappropriate Electronic Messages: The Cost of Inappropriate Email to a Business
White Paper Since 2000, the number of electronic messages sent to mail recipients has dramatically increased, many now bypassing these first generation filters. This white paper looks at the problem and demonstrates how second generation filtering technology... [03 Jul 2008]
BlackBerry Enterprise Server: For Lotus Domino Version 2.0 with Service Pack 2 or Higher
White Paper The BlackBerry Enterprise Server performs the functions like processessing all messages into the BlackBerry user's individual BlackBerry State Database, monitoring the BlackBerry user's inbox for new mail, applying user-definable filters to new... [03 Jul 2008]
TechNet Webcast: How Microsoft IT Uses the Exchange Hosted Services to Protect the Messaging Environment (Level 300)
White Paper All mail delivered to mailboxes@microsoft.com is first routed through Exchange Hosted Services, a hosted service that filters mail for spam and viruses and enforces corporate e-mail policies "In the cloud" before the mail reaches the Microsoft... [03 Jul 2008]
Thin clients switch on digitally excluded
Case Study The use of thin client computing means users are supported remotely by technicians and do not therefore have to worry about installing antivirus, firewalls, web filters etc, or doing updates. The running costs per user (excluding the initial... [17 Jun 2008]
Noncommercial Email Lists: Collateral Damage in the Fight Against Spam
White Paper The large number of anti-spam tools is a tremendous problem for email list owners, who must navigate everything from "block lists" to Bayesian filters" to communicate with willing recipients. There is also some evidence that administrators are... [18 Apr 2008]
Filtering's ding-dong fight with malicious spam
Comment Guillaume Lovet, manager of the threat response team at Fortinet, says at the start of the ongoing battle spammers first used plain text but this was picked up by filters. These include looking for specific spam signatures, blocking certain IP... [10 Dec 2007]
Spammers switching on to YouTube?
News On 17 October spammers used attached MP3 music files to try to "sneak messages past spam filters", said MessageLabs. Email security company MessageLabs has warned that spammers are already modifying their tactics when it comes to the emerging trend... [30 Oct 2007]
China hosting half of world's malicious sites
News Criminals are hard at work trying to slip past filters at the corporate gateway. Malicious senders, in an attempt to bypass attachment virus scanners, are using messages that direct users to websites with malicious code. [04 Sep 2007]
Spam surge emanating from the Far East
News Although Excel and ZIP-file spam numbers remain low, Symantec's report stated that finding new attachment formats is an indication of "just how committed spammers are to evading anti-spam filters". In a report, Symantec noted a sharp spike in spam... [14 Aug 2007]
Stock spam slumps
News Image-based spam, in which unsolicited emails evade anti-spam filters by including their messages within attached images, is also on the decline according to McAfee, declining from 65 per cent at the start of the year to less than 20 per cent now. [22 Jun 2007]
