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AV software vendors (server- and
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UNIX Linux
*Clam AntiVirus Clam AntiVirus
*Open AntiVirus openantivirus
RAV ravantivirus
Sophos sophos
Kaspersky kaspersky
(contact us to add a vendor)
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MS Windows
Symantec symantec
RAV ravantivirus
Kaspersky kaspersky
Sophos sophos
(contact us to add a vendor)
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AS Techniques and sample software/services
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IP-BASED CHECKS
centralized/authoritative: MAPS, ORDB, Osirusoft, SPEWS, SpamCop, Spamhaus
distributed/trust-based: Trustic
self-administered: rules in most firewalls and MTAs
PATTERN MATCHING
header patterns: SpamAssassin, Habeas
body patterns: SpamAssassin
DISTRIBUTED WHOLE-MESSAGE CHECKSUMS
Vipul's Razor/Cloudmark, DCC
STATISTICAL COMPARISON TO KNOWN GOOD/BAD EMAIL
Spammunition, SpamAssassin 2.5, Mail (Mac OS X)
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Server-based
AS software |
UNIX
*SpamAssassin spamassassin.org
*MailScanner mailscanner/
*Vipul's Razor (Cloudmark's open-source predecessor)
http://razor.sourceforge.net/
*DCC http://www.rhyolite.com/anti-spam/dcc/
Message Wall messagewall
PureMessage http://www.activestate.com/Products/PureMessage/
BrightMail brightmail/
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Windows
SpamAssassin Pro (for Exchange) deersoft
Cloudmark Authority cloudmark
BrightMail brightmail
DynaComm iMail http://www.dciseries.com/products/imail/
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client-based
AS software |
Windows
*Spammunition (for Outlook)
http://www.upserve.com/spammunition/default.asp
*JoeEmail http://joeemail.sourceforge.net/
SpamButcher spambutcher
Spam Bully (for Outlook / Outlook Express) spambully
Cloudmark SpamNet (for Outlook) cloudmark
SpamAssassin Pro (for Outlook) deersoft/
Spamnix (for Eudora) spamnix
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Mac OS 9/X
*Mail (included in Mac OS X 10.2)
http://www.apple.com/macosx/jaguar/mail.html
Spamfire http://www.matterform.com/
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hosted (ASP) AV and AS services
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Postini http://www.postini.com/
StarSure CleanMail
http://www.star.net.uk/products/security_cleanmail.asp
SpamCop Corporate Email Services
http://mail.spamcop.net/corporate.php
ipop.com
http://www.ipop.com/Solutions/EmailFiltering/Default.asp
Electric Embers NPOshield http://electricembers.net/
Electric Embers NPOMail http://electricembers.net/
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blacklist/whitelist services
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DNS blacklists
MAPS (RBL, DUL, RSS, NML) http://mail-abuse.org/
ORDB http://www.ordb.org/
Osirusoft http://relays.osirusoft.com/
SPEWS http://www.spews.org/
SpamCop http://spamcop.net/
Spamhaus (SBL) http://www.spamhaus.org/
Trustic http://www.trustic.com/
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Whitelist warrants
Habeas http://habeas.com/
Bonded Sender Program http://www.bondedsender.org/
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Starting points for further reading
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http://spamconference.org/proceedings2003.html - proceedings from the
2003 Spam Conference held at MIT, the cutting edge of AS research
http://paulgraham.com/spam.html
- the paper that introduced Bayesian statistical analysis to spam filtering
http://www.scotsnewsletter.com/best_of/fightspam.htm - a collections of Let's Fight Spam articles from Scot's Newsleter
http://theory.whirlycott.com/~phil/antispam/rbl-bad/rbl-bad.html
- an argument against using blacklists for AS
* Free/open-source, free (re: $$), or included with OS
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