Archive for December, 2005

SpamRIP

Wednesday, December 21st, 2005

I’ve been playing around with SpamRIP for quite some time now and I highly enjoy it because it is currently the only CRM114 WIN32 solution for the laymen. It works very well when Outlook decides to crap out when downloading emails and I’ve trained the corpus good enough so that I can delete from […]

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CRM114 Gets 99.984% Accuracy

Wednesday, December 21st, 2005

Quote from Bill’s website:
“Current statistics:
For the month of April 2005, I receieved over 10,000 emails. About 60% were spam. I had ZERO classification errors. ZERO.
As of Feb 1 through March 1, 2004, 8738 messages (4240 spam, 4498 nonspam), and my total error rate was ONE. That translates to better than 99.984% accuracy, which […]

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CRM114 - Hyperspace Classification

Wednesday, December 21st, 2005

There is a new classification for CRM114 that appears to be the fastest and possible the most accurate. Quote from Bill below:
“Hyperspace classification is a very different kind of classifier. Instead of grouping all members of a class of texts together and looking for common features, hyperspace classification keeps each text separate. Each text, […]

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TREC 2005

Wednesday, December 21st, 2005

The Spam TREC attempted to build a “gold standard” corpus of spam and ham and then rigourously test a wide variety of spam filters (all from universities or open source projects) against the corpus (or corpuses since there were four, although only one will be made public and consists of over 92,000 categorized messages drawn […]

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Snarf! Snarf!

Wednesday, December 21st, 2005

Microsoft Research has released an interesting tool for those of you who need to triage your email called SNARF.
SNARF stands for Social Network and Relationship Finder and is a free download from Microsoft. To quote their description:
“SNARF was built around the notion that social network information
that is already […]

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How To Block Spam Using Outlook Express

Wednesday, December 21st, 2005

Here are some most common scam offers likely to arrive by email:
Chain letters. Chain letters that involve money or valuable items and promise big returns are illegal. If you start one or send one on, you are breaking the law. Chances are you will get little or no money back on your “investment.” Despite the […]

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Outlook Spam Filter

Wednesday, December 21st, 2005

What Can I Do With the Spam in my In-Box?
Report it to the Federal Trade Commission and use a good Outlook Spam Filter. Send a copy of unwanted or deceptive messages to spam@uce.gov. The FTC uses the unsolicited emails stored in this database to pursue law enforcement actions against people who send deceptive spam email.
Let […]

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Free Outlook Express Spam Blocker

Wednesday, December 21st, 2005

Do you get lots of junk email messages from people you don’t know and have to use a good Free Outlook Express Spam Blocker? It’s no surprise if you do. As more people use email, marketers are increasingly using email messages to pitch their products and services. Some consumers find unsolicited commercial email - also […]

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FREE Outlook Express Spam Filter

Wednesday, December 21st, 2005

What is spam? - I hate outlook spam!
Spam is the electronic version of “junk mail.” The term spam refers to unsolicited, often unwanted, email messages. Spam does not necessarily contain viruses—valid messages from legitimate sources could fall into this class.
Use filters - Many email programs and bayesian spam filters for outlook express offer filtering […]

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Anti-Spam Blocker Software For Microsoft

Wednesday, December 21st, 2005

Spam is a common, and often frustrating, side effect to having an email account. Although you will probably not be able to end it and, there are ways to reduce it with Anti-Spam Blocker Software For Microsoft in order to empty spam in outlook.
How can you reduce the amount of spam?
There are some steps […]

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