Archive for October, 2009

Getting Email To Pass Through Spam Filters

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

The anti-spam technology today are quite smart in filtering spam emails. By implementing various techniques spam filters are able to know the differences between a legitimate email and a junk. However, because spammers also learn to outsmart the spam filtering software on the market today, often a legitimate email ended up in a spam folder. [...]

Simple Tips To Avoid Being Spammed

Tuesday, October 20th, 2009

Spam is starting to become the number 1 curse to the internet users. Too much resources have been wasted in closing down unsolicited websites or removing junk emails. Not to mention the major danger of getting some sort of virus that can be pricey. Facing these problems, an anti spam software or service might help, [...]

Bayesian Filter As A Modern Filtration System

Monday, October 19th, 2009

In the past, most anti-spam programs simply employed a catalogue of words to identify spams. Although a good set of keywords have catched many spam emails, utilizing this strategy alone has some disadvantages. Spam filters can be bypassed easily by changing the message a bit. Further, it could accidentally filter legitimate emails.

Nowadays, bayesian filtering approach [...]

Image Spam – The Next Generation of Spam Message

Monday, October 19th, 2009

Normally, anti spam tools work by scanning text messages. In order to fool such tools, spammers shift their strategy from using plain text to using embedded images to send their messages. It makes the spam messages become undetected by traditional spam filtering software.

The effects of this type of spammmy intrusion are worse than the older [...]

Anti Spam Software – How It Works

Monday, October 19th, 2009

These days, there are many anti-spam software that each utilizes a different tehcnique in order to stop unwanted emails come to their users’ inbox. Although none of them can perfectly stop spams, they are still a valuable tool.

Blacklisting is one of the oldest spam elimination methods. This works by identifying the IP address of the [...]