Staying One Step Ahead of The Spammers

This was extremely easy with first generation spam killers, as they typically used dumb plain text filtering systems. If the sender just misspelled a word in the filter - like V!AGR@ - the mail would go through.

Many spam filters now use Bayesian filters to detect what amount of the message is made up of offensive material. It then uses statistics to calculate the probability that the message is spam.

One trick spammers have been employing to defeat these efforts to block spam email is to include a bunch of junk text along with the actual message. This downplays the significants of any offending text by making it a smaller percentage of the total message.

SpamButcher's spam blocker uses Fuzzy Logic. It is similar to Bayes - but isn't as dependant on statistics. These kinds of tricks aren't as effective at fooling it. Commonly, users of SpamButcher only need to update the application a few times a year.

Several systems of email recognition were considered before settling on this method. Other advantages of this unique system were performance and ease of implementation.

The SpamButcher spam removal software can be downloaded as a free trial version from www.spambutcher.com. The software will run for 21-days before needing registration.

SpamButcher runs as a stand-alone program. It can work as a Outlook spam blocker, Outlook Express spam filter or with any other email client that supports POP3.

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