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Bayesian filter: technology and advantages

Tip! G-Lock SpamCombat allows you assign the hot keys to the common operations. For example, you can assign F8 to Mark Message as SPAM function and F9 to Mark Message as Clean. Next time when you train the Bayesian filter you can simply use two keys on your keyboard F8 and F9.

Not a long time ago, most anti-spam products simply used a list of keywords to identify spam. A good set of keywords could catch much spam. However, a keyword-based anti-spam filter requires manual updating and can be easily fooled by tweaking the message a little. Spammers simply examine the latest anti-spam techniques and find ways to bypass them. At the result you’re left with a high number of false positives.

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Spam scams: how not to become a victim

All spam emails we receive every day in tens or hundreds are annoying and disgusting. But the worst of them are scams, hoaxes, and illegal schemes aimed at defrauding you of your money, private information, and even your life. Being aware of how the spam scams work you will be able to protect yourself against the spammers-fraudsters and not to become a victim of their fraudulent schemes.

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Image Spam And How To Fight It

Spam attacks where the text is replaced with images aimed at lightly protected email systems are growing in popularity. With the variety of anti-spam filters that analyze the message content to weed out unsolicited emails, spammers continue to increasingly adopt image spam. Businesses, organizations and everyday computer users might have noted an increase of image-based spam, text e-mails that arrive in your in-box as image files. Image spam can contain a picture of words, a screenshot, a photographic image, or a combination of these. By sending emails that contain no text, only pictures, spammers found that they can fool even the most advanced anti-spam software.

Types of spam using this technique:

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Powerful Spam Filter for SpamCombat:
- Ingrith: I find that there's a *lot* of current spam that simply bypasses the Bayesian filters and is basically a penetration line and a URL. I'd like a filter that will catch anything with an URL in the body (or any other arbitrary string) Anyone who has any business sending me an URL is...
- marisp: Hello Albert, In order we could understand what is wrong, please, save your test message to the disk in the .eml format, then attach the .eml file to a message and send it to us. We will check it out.
- Albert Keur: _To:= LowerCase(_To); Cc := LowerCase(Cc); Result := -1; This don't works by me. Why??? I have send an email with my account to myself. Complex filters blocked this email. MyEmail := 'hidden@wxs.nl'; if (Account_Name = 'akeulee') and (pos(MyEmail, _To)=0) and (pos(MyEmail, Cc)=0) then begin...
- marisp: You can edit the code so that the emails you are subscribed to will be classified as good by the Complex filter. For this purpose, add as many Return-Path emails as you are subscribed to in If and type 0 in Result. 0 means the email is good. If you type -1, the email will...