| The most prolific and path breaking innovation of | | | | providing his/her sensitive information like |
| last century had been the developments in the | | | | username/password or Credit Card Information |
| communication field. It literally changed the | | | | to these duplicate pages. Here I would like to add |
| business working, product marketing, support | | | | one piece of advice to all users that you should |
| services and most importantly, the advertisement | | | | always see where the link is taking you by seeing |
| campaigns. | | | | the tool tip and then if sure, follow the link. |
| But just like all goods things comes with a price, | | | | The role of content in marking the mail spam or |
| so was the communication. It brought in the | | | | not spam has been achieved using the Bayesian |
| problems of Spam Emails. Automated mailers with | | | | filter. Together with the Black List of spammers |
| mass mailing capabilities, growing marketing | | | | and White list of trusted emails ids, is the best |
| dependencies on this tool have seen the large | | | | technique to counter the spam. The most |
| losses in terms of time and money. | | | | interesting fact is that Spam Filter with Bayesian |
| There have been many ways of targeting spam | | | | algorithm is a self learning filter. The more you |
| mails like blacklisted domains, banned IPs, words in | | | | use, the more secure you shall be within a matter |
| subject and many more. The spammers have | | | | of few days. |
| always found out a way to change their identity. | | | | The spam filter integrate easily with popular emails |
| But here is the catch. The spammers are being | | | | clients such MS outlook and Outlook Express. With |
| paid to send the message. They can change their | | | | due course, up to 98% of the spam mails can be |
| Domains, IPs, subject lines, but how much they | | | | stopped from entering your Inbox. The Spam |
| can play with the contents? And that's where | | | | Filter for Outlook Express and Spam Filter for |
| content based filtering comes into focus. Now we | | | | Microsoft Outlook, with the features of White List |
| can understand that by targeting and focusing on | | | | Black List and properly used Bayesian Algorithm |
| message body, there is a better chance of | | | | will help prevent spam mails, phishing mails and |
| filtering spam emails. | | | | fraud mails from bothering you further. |
| Apart from the usual spam emails, the new | | | | There has been a considerable increase in the |
| menace has been created by the "phishing emails" | | | | spam mails containing Non English Characters also. |
| targeting primarily eBay and PayPal accounts. | | | | The Bayesian Algorithm based Spam Filter also |
| These emails come as a "Last Warning", | | | | must have the capability to parse non English |
| "Attention Required", "Password Change Required" | | | | characters and mark as spam mail. |
| or "Your account is suspended" among many | | | | To get rid of continuous spam mails, phishing |
| more. These mails appear to have come from | | | | mails, fraud mails and Non-English mails, you might |
| eBay or PayPal and provide a link to their own | | | | like to try Official Spam Filter for Outlook Express |
| page. | | | | 1.2 and Official Spam Filter for Microsoft Outlook |
| These pages are designed just like the original | | | | 1.2. |
| pages and the unsuspecting user ends up | | | | |