1,009 Variations on Viagra! Revolutionary New Spam Filter Gets Top Award from WhichSpamFilter.com
MailMender – a revolutionary new spam filter gets top award from a leading spam filter reviews web site after fending off 1,009 variations of the word “Viagra”. - MailMender introduces a clever new technology that automatically finds all variations of words commonly used by spammers, foiling all attempts by spammers to get past it.
(PRWEB) October 1, 2004 -- In an interesting recent study by the spam filter
reviews site WhichSpamFilter.com (http://www.whichspamfilter.com) MailMender™, the new spam
filter from Savannah Software fended off 1,009 variations of the word that most
often bombards our inboxes - “Viagra”. It was sent strange combinations ranging
from “V1@gra” to “V|l|a|q|r@” in an attempt to get it past the
filter.
Alan Hearnshaw, the owner of Savannah Software, a custom software
company based in Savannah, Georgia, said: “We invented the ‘intelligent search’
method after more and more ‘obfuscated’ messages started getting past regular
spam filters and into our inbox. We were approached by WhichSpamFilter.com – a
website that conducts in-depth reviews of current and emerging anti-spam
technology, and asked to take part in this test.
In the past,
content-filtering spam filters have easily been fooled by the spammer spelling
words incorrectly. We needed a technology which would not only see through these
methods, but detect that they were being employed in the first
place.”
MailMender™ (http://www.mailmender.com) took 18 months to develop and is
now available to the public.
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Source : http://www.prweb.com/releases/2004/11/prweb173166.htm