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fsck · 10-17-2002, 09:42 AM

articles from www.ccnews.cc

BrightMail Inc Tuesday released version 4.0 of its spam filtering services to enterprises and service providers, saying it has added features aimed at recognizing sophisticated spam that was previously undetectable

By ComputerWire

BrightMail Inc yesterday released version 4.0 of its spam filtering services to enterprises and service providers, saying it has added features aimed at recognizing sophisticated spam that was previously undetectable.

Anti-Spam 4.0 has a feature BrightMail calls BrightSig, which identifies "polymorphic spam attacks". These are attacks where essentially the same email is sent, but with subtle differences in punctuation or spacing designed to circumvent signature-based spam filters.

The new version also has an upgraded installation and configuration tool, runs on Solaris and Windows 2000 operating systems, and interoperates with enterprise messaging platforms including Exchange and Lotus Notes.

The Anti-Spam service uses an email gateway filter that enforces rules created daily by BrightMail´s team of developers. The company identifies unsolicited commercial email from 100 million decoy email accounts that are seeded to attract spam, and is used by six of the top 10 US ISPs.

quiet · 10-17-2002, 09:43 AM

bastards

Mr.Fiction · 10-17-2002, 09:49 AM

Yeah right, that shit probably deletes 90% of spam and 90% of your real mail along with it. If you work in adult (and have domains like xxxsexxxx.com) it probably deletes 100% of your real mail and still only 90% of the spam.

candidpublishinginc · 10-17-2002, 10:07 AM

I hate those anti spam maggots. Thanks to the spammer that did that DOS style spam attack on Candid Clicks back in August, spews.org blacklisted a whole range of ips where our urls were on so good number of LEGIT mail that we mass mail to webmasters to keep them up to date doesn't go through.

The only spam filtering I support is client or server based filtering that filters based on PHRASES rather than ips and gives the end user COMPLETE control to customize it.

I have a huge rules list in Outlooks and all my legit mail comes in, but spam gets auto deleted. So I'm not sure why they try to be all fancy with blocking ips and so on without giving the user any control of what they want thru and what they don't want thru.

Juge · 10-17-2002, 10:41 AM

The only proper way to filter spam is with proper A.I. There's a few programs in the works that I have seen that are absolutely amazing - the spam filtering accuracy of 100.000% - really. Even on spam the programmers attempted to make to fool their own AI. They should be hitting the market farily soon.

pimplink · 10-17-2002, 10:43 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Juge
The only proper way to filter spam is with proper A.I. There's a few programs in the works that I have seen that are absolutely amazing - the spam filtering accuracy of 100.000% - really. Even on spam the programmers attempted to make to fool their own AI. They should be hitting the market farily soon.

Or you can try the Walmart version.... just filter out emails redirecting to blind servers coming from Russia and China

Backov · 10-17-2002, 12:16 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by candidpublishinginc
I hate those anti spam maggots. Thanks to the spammer that did that DOS style spam attack on Candid Clicks back in August, spews.org blacklisted a whole range of ips where our urls were on so good number of LEGIT mail that we mass mail to webmasters to keep them up to date doesn't go through.

The only spam filtering I support is client or server based filtering that filters based on PHRASES rather than ips and gives the end user COMPLETE control to customize it.

I have a huge rules list in Outlooks and all my legit mail comes in, but spam gets auto deleted. So I'm not sure why they try to be all fancy with blocking ips and so on without giving the user any control of what they want thru and what they don't want thru.

Spews.org does a legitimate job, and is well supported and respected. You got bit, and that's sad.

However, your anger is misdirected - you got bit by a spammer, so why are you mad at the anti-spammers? Have the spammer killed, it can't cost more than a few grand. And blacklists like Spews are not hard to get off, you just have to stop spamming. (And no, legit opt in to your webmasters doesn't count as spamming unless some of your webmasters report it as such..)

Cheers,
Backov

10-17-2002, 09:42 AM	#1
fsck Registered User Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 20	BrightMail works to close spam loopholes articles from www.ccnews.cc BrightMail Inc Tuesday released version 4.0 of its spam filtering services to enterprises and service providers, saying it has added features aimed at recognizing sophisticated spam that was previously undetectable By ComputerWire BrightMail Inc yesterday released version 4.0 of its spam filtering services to enterprises and service providers, saying it has added features aimed at recognizing sophisticated spam that was previously undetectable. Anti-Spam 4.0 has a feature BrightMail calls BrightSig, which identifies "polymorphic spam attacks". These are attacks where essentially the same email is sent, but with subtle differences in punctuation or spacing designed to circumvent signature-based spam filters. The new version also has an upgraded installation and configuration tool, runs on Solaris and Windows 2000 operating systems, and interoperates with enterprise messaging platforms including Exchange and Lotus Notes. The Anti-Spam service uses an email gateway filter that enforces rules created daily by BrightMail´s team of developers. The company identifies unsolicited commercial email from 100 million decoy email accounts that are seeded to attract spam, and is used by six of the top 10 US ISPs.

10-17-2002, 09:43 AM	#2
quiet we'll miss you our friend. RIP Industry Role: Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Fernie, BC Posts: 25,115	bastards __________________ we'll miss you our friend. RIP

10-17-2002, 09:49 AM	#3
Mr.Fiction Confirmed User Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Free Speech Land Posts: 9,484	Yeah right, that shit probably deletes 90% of spam and 90% of your real mail along with it. If you work in adult (and have domains like xxxsexxxx.com) it probably deletes 100% of your real mail and still only 90% of the spam. Last edited by Mr.Fiction; 10-17-2002 at 10:10 AM..

10-17-2002, 10:07 AM	#4
candidpublishinginc Confirmed User Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: Bedford, NH 03110 Posts: 707	I hate those anti spam maggots. Thanks to the spammer that did that DOS style spam attack on Candid Clicks back in August, spews.org blacklisted a whole range of ips where our urls were on so good number of LEGIT mail that we mass mail to webmasters to keep them up to date doesn't go through. The only spam filtering I support is client or server based filtering that filters based on PHRASES rather than ips and gives the end user COMPLETE control to customize it. I have a huge rules list in Outlooks and all my legit mail comes in, but spam gets auto deleted. So I'm not sure why they try to be all fancy with blocking ips and so on without giving the user any control of what they want thru and what they don't want thru. __________________ Candid Clicks Earn up to 4 cents a click for blind link traffic! NO CONVERSIONS, NO BS!

10-17-2002, 10:41 AM	#5
Juge Confirmed User Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 1,917	The only proper way to filter spam is with proper A.I. There's a few programs in the works that I have seen that are absolutely amazing - the spam filtering accuracy of 100.000% - really. Even on spam the programmers attempted to make to fool their own AI. They should be hitting the market farily soon.