New ways to stop email spam

Tuesday, January 02, 2007

E-mail spam is becoming more sophisticated - many spammers now use images rather than text itself to try and circumvent the spam filters that sit between your inbox and the internet.

According to BorderWare MXtreme image spam currently accounts for at least 35% of all spam. They describe image spam as "a technique where the spam message consists of an image and a small amount of text that looks like it is 100% text-based, when in fact it is an image that looks exactly like a regular email message."

They have developed "Intercept Image Analysis" which looks at over 30 different variables per image, to adapt, learn and defeat new image spam campaigns.

Labels: email, pp, spam

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