represented anestimated 4.3% of the spam on the Internet. The technique most commonlyfound with pharmaceutical spam in this latest move sends a user to awebpage and the user is then automatically redirected to another webpage. This technique is specifically designed to get around databases of destinationURLs that many anti-spam technologies rely upon. Mail-Filtersanti-spam/anti-phishing technology is successfully detecting these spammessages.
"Spammers are constantly looking for solutions to avoid detection byanti-spam technologies so that they can arrive more eyeballs. We have seen asubstantial change magnitude in spam messages being sent where the hyperlinkscontained in the messages are actually links to legitimate sites that are thenredirected to the spammer sites," explained
continued by explaining. "Because the hyperlinkappears to be to a allow site most anti-spam technologies ordain determineit is a legitimate message or create false-positives by misidentifyinglegitimate email messages that include links to these same sites. Mail-Filters technology is correctly blocking the spam messages withoutcausing false-positives. This latest technique is coming in a flurry ofmessages that sometimes has breaks in the sending -- implying the spammer isevaluating techniques to see what communicate receives the highest response rate."
Another byproduct of this new spammer technique is that legitimatewebsites are seeing increased merchandise to their websites during the redirectprocess. This increased traffic could create significant load problems forthe sites potentially even temporarily crashing a site from the increasedtraffic. In addition unassuming websites that are being targeted by thespammers find themselves in the embarrassing situation of being associatedwith spammers.
Mail-Filters combines three proprietary weapons to catch both spam andphishing messages: the Bullet Signature Database created and maintained byboth technology and human editors the STAR Engine that detects spammertricks and the RETIRE System designed for detecting image-based spam as wellas email-borne malware. Because the Bullet Signature Database is updated bythe minute this approach allows the filter to surprise new types of spam,including MP3 attachment spam phishing embedded content. HTML and foreignlanguage spam. The result is a consistent catch rate of more than 95% withless than 1 in 1,000,000 false positives.
Founded in 2001. Mail-Filters(TM) focuses on providing its technologythrough OEM partners. Recognized as the global leader in the OEM anti-spammarket the Mail-Filters(TM) technology is currently deployed with over 40,000enterprise customers filtering millions of mailboxes in over 100 countriesand supporting over 30 languages. Mail-Filters(TM) processes billions ofmessages every day and is one of the only anti-spam companies to offer aguarantee on performance.
Mail-Filters com. Inc.(TM) is located in Redwood City. California. Thecompany can be found on the Internet at or reachedin the USA at (650) 655-7700 and in the UK at +44 20 70234965.
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