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2006
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
An effective defense against email spam laundering
Laundering email spam through open-proxies or compromised PCs is a widely-used trick to conceal real spam sources and reduce spamming cost in underground email spam industry. Spam...
Mengjun Xie, Heng Yin, Haining Wang
INFOCOM
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
ALPACAS: A Large-Scale Privacy-Aware Collaborative Anti-Spam System
— While the concept of collaboration provides a natural defense against massive spam emails directed at large numbers of recipients, designing effective collaborative anti-spam s...
Zhenyu Zhong, Lakshmish Ramaswamy, Kang Li
COLCOM
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
An experimental evaluation of spam filter performance and robustness against attack
— In this paper, we show experimentally that learning filters are able to classify large corpora of spam and legitimate email messages with a high degree of accuracy. The corpor...
Steve Webb, Subramanyam Chitti, Calton Pu
CEC
2003
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Increasing the accuracy of a spam-detecting artificial immune system
AbstractSpam, the electronic equivalent of junk mail, affects over 600 million users worldwide. Even as anti-spam solutions change to limit the amount of spam sent to users, the se...
Terri Oda, Tony White
CEAS
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Good Word Attacks on Statistical Spam Filters
Unsolicited commercial email is a significant problem for users and providers of email services. While statistical spam filters have proven useful, senders of spam are learning ...
Daniel Lowd, Christopher Meek