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Image Spam: The New Email Scourge

Category: Security

Tags: spam

Overview This paper discusses how image spam has developed and evolved and, most important, why it's more difficult to detect than text spam for most anti-spam filters. They describe some of the methods used by spammers to avoid detection and the techniques that McAfee has built into its anti-spam technology. McAfee's approach takes into account a constellation of variables associated with image spam; efforts result in more robust filtering and very high detection rates.

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Publisher
McAfee
File Format
PDF
Date Published
Apr 3, 2008
Format
White Papers
Topics
Spam - E-mail Fraud - Phishing, Network Security

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