Email spamming is always a challenging issue in Internet communication arena. It costs corporate world a significant amount of monetary investment and human resource efforts in the fight against email spammers.
The conventional text spam is always on the rise, but its significance and degree of user-reach is inversely responding. Various free and commercial spam filtering engines are proven effective in analyzing textual messages, and keep inbox practically spam-free.
However, just as spam filters are getting more sophisticated, spammers are getting smarter too! Recently, there’s an emergence of new form spamming, called image spam, which defeats the analyzing engine of conventional spam filter designed to infer textual messages.
Image spam works by incorporating an image and a small amount of text into an email. While spam filter can easily analyze and interpret textual messages, but inferring the contents contained in an image is not something that can be easily done programmatically.
While all image spam messages may look the same to an end-user, spammers have programs to automatically create each image to have slightly different coloration, speckle patterns, or fonts. This combination of computerized image tweaks introduces uniqueness in each image. Thus, it poses a greater degree of difficulty for spam filters to classify and analyze common features from a group of related image spam.
Anti Image Spam
BorderWare, a software company specializing in Internet communication security, is introducing a new age
anti image spam called BorderWare MXtreme, designed to intelligently counter against image spam.
MXtreme is featuring a patent-pending image analyzing technology – Intercept Image Analysis, which inspects over thirty attributes about each image including positions and relationships to other message characteristics and is designed to adapt and learn about new image spam campaigns.
If you’re interested to learn more about BorderWare MXtreme, you may
visit MXtreme’s official site. MXtreme is
awarded email content filtering "Best Buy" by
SC Magazine.
Free evaluation copy is available for you to have some hands-on before further deciding on purchase.
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