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Critical Office XP fix disables spam filters
News Companies using either iHateSpam or Spamnet have complained that after installing the update, their junk email filters do not work correctly because the user is inundated with pop-up messages alerting them that an application is trying to access...
[March 12, 2004, 16:00]
Critical Office XP fix disables spam filters
Talkback I cannot use the "This is spam" button on the tool bar to get rid of email that gets through the email filter and when I try the entire Outlook toolbar freezes and the only way I can shut down Outlook is through ctl/alt/del.
[March 22, 2004, 21:07]
Critical Office XP fix disables spam filters
Talkback No doubt it is just a coincidence that MSFT bought an anti-virus company several months ago.
[March 12, 2004, 20:49]
Critical Office XP fix disables spam filters
Talkback By the way Symantec's Norton Anti Spam is also affected by this Service Pack release.
[March 12, 2004, 22:09]
Critical Office XP fix disables spam filters
Talkback The software I use for filtering spam.http://www.spambully.com does not seem to be affected by this problem. It still works fine after the update and has always been excellent at filtering out the unwanted spam.
[March 14, 2004, 10:20]
Four Popular Anti Spam Filters for Exchange Reviewed
White Papers A user's only true defense against spam mail using Microsoft Exchange is to install third-party solutions. The four products that they have chosen to evaluate are: SPAM Smacker 1.0, GFI MailEssentials for Exchange/SMTP, MailMarshal, and Trend Micro...
[October 20, 2006, 1:00]
Tobacco Company Filters Spam With Marshal
White Papers Since 2003, the Gallaher Group has benefited from Marshal's email filtering technology to combat the continual rise of unwanted spam and inappropriate emails from entering the corporate network. With four sites across the UK supporting 1600 users...
[February 21, 2009, 0:24]
SLICE the SPAM: Junk Email Filters and Other Anti-Spam Features of Outlook 2003-Level 100
White Papers Junk e-mail and spam can be bothersome and even offensive. Do you receive unwanted or junk e-mail? View this webcast and learn to use the features in Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 that help you spend less time managing unwanted e-mail.
[October 1, 2004, 0:00]
Image Spam Filtering by Detection of Adversarial Obfuscated Text
White Papers In recent years anti-spam filters have become necessary tools for Internet service providers to face up to the continuously growing spam phenomenon. Spam filtering is clearly a pattern recognition task in adversarial environment, as spammers are...
[October 14, 2008, 1:01]
Fighting Unicode-Obfuscated Spam
White Papers In the last few years, obfuscation has been used more and more by spammers to make spam emails bypass filters. The standard method is to use images that look like text, since typical spam filters are unable to parse such messages.
[October 14, 2008, 1:01]
On Extendable Software Architecture for Spam Email Filtering
White Papers There are many content scanning based spam email filters available and also in operation. This is not because the filters are not powerful enough, but because the filtering systems are not flexible enough to adapt the new development of spam...
[October 14, 2008, 1:01]
Forum tries to save email from spam-traps
News A group of email marketers on Tuesday set up an Internet forum for people to air grievances about spam filters -- which can swallow legitimate messages along with the targeted commercial come-ons. Groups -- as a way to help software companies and...
[February 19, 2003, 14:33]
Gmail spam decreases
Blog Google has claimed that its spam filters are discouraging spammers, after a decline in attmepts to spam Gmail users. A YouTube video, linked to in the blog post, seems to be pitching Gmail primarily at businesses, with an explanation of what Google...
[October 31, 2007, 14:45]
Outlook 2003 fights the spam battle
Talkback Bayesian spam filters calculate the probability of a message being spam based on its contents. There are two good bayesian spam filters for Outlook and Outlook Express. I tried spam filter from MS Outlook 2003 and I don't like how it works.
[July 1, 2004, 14:39]
Microsoft to fix Bing spam bug
News Microsoft announced on Wednesday that it is fixing a bug in Bing that previously allowed spammers to bypass spam filters and distribute malicious links. The redirect from Bing to the spam site is not obfuscated, which has allowed scammers to append...
[October 22, 2009, 10:01]
IronPort turns to ratings to fight spam
News As spam evolves, so do spam filters. Historically spam filters have looked at content. The seller of anti-spam appliances on Monday announced the IronPort Web Reputation technology. The new technology looks at about 45 attributes of Web sites...
[January 24, 2006, 8:40]
Email users get a reputation
News Both technologies are designed to improve spam filters and prevent the spoofing of email addresses. The TrustedSource Web site uses data from reputation filters, which are billed as the next big thing in email security.
[August 30, 2005, 9:30]
Understand how various spam software works
News Since each solution handles spam differently, it's important to understand the various methods by which spam filters work. Very simply put, these kinds of spam filters look for certain words, such as 'Viagra' and kill a message if those words are...
[June 24, 2005, 11:30]
SpamSieve
Downloads Other spam filters get worse over time as spammers adapt to their rules; SpamSieve actually gets better over time as you train it with more messages. Some other e-mail clients include Bayesian filters, but SpamSieve is more accurate.
[September 9, 2009, 20:13]
Spammers target tech-savvy Web users
News It warned that spammers often use threads and conversations from those bulletin board conversations to try to fool spam filters. This can help the unsolicited messages to slip past anti-spam applications such as Bayesian filters, the email...
[October 4, 2006, 17:35]
