| Dr.WEB anti-spam beta-version released
(PRLEAP.COM) Doctor Web, Ltd. announces the beta-testing of the new product protecting Windows workstations from viruses and unsolicited mail (spam). The mail filtering module SpIDer Mail® now integrates a spam filter based on Vade Retro® technology from Goto Software, a French company with more than 5 year experience in anti-spam development. All users willing to try the new functionality of Dr.Web anti-virus can register as beta-testers at Dr.Web web-site and explore the advantages of the spam-filtering technology. SpIDer Mail, being as always light, efficient and transparent to the user, is now integrated with Vade Retro anti-spam filter, thus protecting the client's mailbox from not just dangerous but from unsolicited mails as well. The anti-spam module has several advantages.
Tune Up Your Newsletter For Compliance
In this article we'll continue talking about how to create a healthy email message and give a few tips how to survive anti-spam filters.
Anti-spam filters catch every incoming email before it is delivered into the inbox and review it. They use a scoring system to classify an email as spam or legitimate. These filters (you might have heard about SpamAssassin, SpamProbe, or SpamCombat) look for certain patterns in the message, and assign "spam points" to it based on certain criteria: words, phrases, or even colors.
Depending on what these filters find or don't find in the message, points are added to or taken away from a scoring system. If the message score is 5.0 or higher, the filters add the *SPAM* word to the subject line of the message and the email is redirected to a "bulk" or "junk" mailbox.
New spam trick: mimic newsletters
Those ubiquitous Viagra ads have been disguising themselves as e-mail newsletters, the kind you get to find out the latest airline deals or keep up with your fantasy football team. Spammers haven't actually broken into legitimate marketers' computer systems to send out the messages. Rather, like the phishing scams that lift the code off the real websites of financial institutions, spammers have tweaked legitimate e-mail and sent them through normal spam channels. Recipients might not immediately realize they are opening spam, and anti-spam filters might not be able to aggressively block them for fear of blocking legitimate newsletters as well, anti-spam experts say. These messages started appearing a month ago, and so far, they have been relatively small in numbers, said Doug Bowers, senior director of anti-abuse engineering at Symantec Corp., a vendor of anti-spam products.
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