Spam Filtering Research
There is a lot more to filtering spam than simply blocking IP addresses or separating out email with the word “viagra” present.
- Spam Filtering Mechanisms
- Email and Spam Research Groups
- Spammer Techniques
- Spam Filter Benchmarks and Reviews
- More Than Just Mail Filtering
- Blacklists vs. Content Filtering
- Collaborative or Distributed Spam Filtering
- Text Classification Spam Filtering
- Spam Events
- Email Authentication and Architecture
- Spam Filtering Intellectual Property Issues
- Web Spam Research
Spam Filtering Mechanisms
Specific descriptions and examples on how to filter spam on a server level.
- Spam Filtering Techniques
- Spam Filtering Case Studies
- Spam Filtering References
- Verisign's SiteFinder and Spam Filtering
- Server Side Spam Filtering Implementations
- Client Side Spam Filtering Implementations
- Blacklists and other filtering lists
- DNS Blackhole Lists (DNSBLs)
Spam Filtering Techniques
Spam Filtering for
Mail Exchangers - tldp.org/HOWTO/Spam-Filtering-for-MX/
Filtering Standards
Anti Spam Research Group (ASRG) Subgroup - asrg.sp.am/subgroups/filtering.shtml
Server Index Query
(SIQ) (draft) - www.milter.info/sendmail/milter-siq/
Second-Generation
Anti-Spam Solutions - overcomeemailoverload.com/advice/AntiSpamTools.html
Spam
filtering techniques - www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-spamf.html?t=gr,lnxw15=SFT
E-Mail Spamming
countermeasures - www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/i-005c.shtml
How to
effectively block spam and junk mail - www.redearthsoftware.com/spam-filter-article.htm
Reverse Spam Filtering
- www.ii.com/internet/messaging/spam/
Bloqueando, Filtrando
- www.absoluta.org/seguranca/seg_spam.htm
- Portugese
Filtering Unsolicited
E-mail - ist.uwaterloo.ca/security/howto/2000-09-27/
Anti-Spam
Methods & Checks - www.pivotalveracity.com/NewsRes/AntiSpam.php
Technical approaches to spam
- www.taugh.com/spamtech.pdf
Technologies
to Combat Spam - www.sans.org/rr/whitepapers/email/1130.php
URL
filtering - www.sophos.com/pressoffice/news/articles/2004/02/sa_cutsspam.html
Anti-Spam Solutions
and Security - www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1763
Stopping
Email Abuse - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-spam_techniques_(e-mail)
SpamGuru
Overview - www.research.ibm.com/spam/papers/spamguru-overview.pdf
A
Multifaceted Approach to Spam Reduction - www.research.ibm.com/spam/papers/multifaceted-approach.pdf
Tutorial
on Junk E-mail Filtering - research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/joshuago/ICMLTutorialAnnounce.htm
Effective Filtering
- www.spamhaus.org/effective_filtering.html
Technical
Standards for E-mail Delivery - postmaster.aol.com/guidelines/standards.html
Technical and Blocklist
Restrictions - www.tuffmail.com/mx-restrictions.php
Mail Filtering - www.acme.com/mail_filtering/
MX+ - mxplus.org/
The
Effect of Filters on Spam Mail - www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/research/math/papers/1402.pdf
What is Anti-Spam?
- www.circleid.com/posts/what_is_anti_spam/
How this system filters
mail - www.sput.nl/spam/filter-mail.html
Anti-Spam
Technologies - www.oecd-antispam.org/article.php3?id_article=241
Computer
Tyme Spam and Virus Filter: How it Works! - www.junkemailfilter.com/spam/how_it_works.html
Understanding
the Network-Level Behavior of Spammers - www.nanog.org/meetings/nanog37/abstracts.php?pt=MzYxJm5hbm9nMzc=&nm=nanog37
Separating
Wheat from the Chaff: A Deployable Approach to Counter Spam - www.cs.indiana.edu/~minaxi/pubs/sruti06.pdf
Kaboom — email
filtering II - www.cyberdelix.net/tech/kaboom.htm
Filtering Spam
At Your Leisure: post delivery filtering - www.uoregon.edu/~joe/maawg7/maawg7.ppt
FortiGuard
AntiSpam Technology Overview - www.fortiguardcenter.com/antispam/antispam_info.html#spamtech
e-scribe Antispam: Technical Details
- e-scribe.com/antispam/
“Default Deny” —
A Paradigm Shift for E-Mail - matthias.leisi.net/
Spam
Control: The Current Landscape - www.ferris.com/2007/01/02/the-commodity-status-of-spam-control/
The
minimum antispam features of a modern SMTP server - utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/spam/MinimumSMTPFeatures
How PerfectMail
works - www.xpmsoftware.com/index.php/xpm/howItWorks
Keeping Spam Out
of the Network - www.avertlabs.com/research/blog/?p=194
Validating the sender
domain - www.avertlabs.com/research/blog/?p=241
Email Relay Detection - mel.byu.edu/spam/
Sieve: A Mail Filtering
Language - www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3028.html
SIEVE Email Filtering: Spamtest
and VirusTest Extensions - www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3685.html
Understanding
the Network Level Behavior of Spammers - www.nanog.org/meetings/nanog37/abstracts.php?pt=MzYxJm5hbm9nMzc=&nm=nanog37
Anti-Spam:
The MagicMail Philosophy - www.linuxmagic.com/opensource/anti_spam/philosophy
Fake MX - www.fakemx.org/
High
Speed Image Part Recognition (IPR) - www.comdomsoft.com/en/antispam/white-papers/high-speed-image-part-recognition-ipr.html
Sendmail Best
Practices for Combating Spam - www.sendmail.com/sm/wp/spam_best_practices/
Proofpoint MLX Technology
Whitepaper - www.proofpoint.com/id/mlxwp/
Fighting
Back Against the Spam-Zombie Hordes - research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/features/SpamFighting.aspx
How
Dynamic Are IP Addresses? - research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=63680
Spamming
Botnets: Signatures and Characteristics - research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=63701
Gmail's
spam-fighting technology - www.google.com/mail/help/fightspam/getstarted.html
SpamCompiler
System - www.mailshell.com/mail/client/oem2.html/step/howitworks
Spam Challenge 2008:
IBM ISS Spam Filtering Technology - www.ceas.cc/2008/papers/iffert.pdf
Anti-spam and spam filtering
techniques - www.allspammedup.com/anti-spam/
Improving
Image Spam Filtering Using Image Text Features - www.ceas.cc/2008/papers/ceas2008-paper-29.pdf
Empirical
research on IP blacklisting - www.ceas.cc/2008/papers/ceas2008-paper-55.pdf
Detecting
Known and New Salting Tricks in Unwanted Emails - www.ceas.cc/2008/papers/ceas2008-paper-48.pdf
The
antispam accuracy of sender verification - blogs.msdn.com/tzink/archive/2008/11/18/the-antispam-accuracy-of-sender-verification.aspx
Some
cool techniques for image filtering - blogs.msdn.com/tzink/archive/2008/11/16/some-cool-techniques-for-image-filtering.aspx
RepuScore - isr.uncc.edu/repuscore/
SMTP DNS
authorization - www.crynwr.com/spam/smtp-dns-authorization.html
Can
DNS-Based Blacklists Keep Up With Bots? - www.cc.gatech.edu/grads/a/avr/publications/ramachandran-ceas06.pdf
Revealing
Botnet Membership Using DNSBL Counter-Intelligence - www.cc.gatech.edu/grads/a/avr/publications/ramachandran-sruti06.pdf
Filtering
Spam with Behavioral Blacklisting - www.cc.gatech.edu/grads/a/avr/publications/ccs07.pdf
Anti-Spam:
The MagicMail Philosophy - www.linuxmagic.com/opensource/anti_spam/philosophy
Ask
Al: Checking email addresses against URIBLs? - www.spamresource.com/2009/07/ask-al-checking-email-addresses-against.html
Spam Filtering Case Studies
Local Mail
Blocking Mechanisms - www.er6.eng.ohio-state.edu/mail_blocking.html
Anti-Spam
Mechanisms on our Mail Servers - www.ultradesign.com/support/email/spamfilters.html
Mails
rejected by anti-spam rules - web.ccr.jussieu.fr/anti-spam/rejet/rejet.html#english
Spam
Filtering in a Small Business Environment, a Case Study - www.sans.org/rr/whitepapers/email/1213.php
Controlling
Spam in a Small Business - www.sans.org/rr/whitepapers/email/1248.php
How
to filter unsolicited e-mail on your mail server - www.sans.org/rr/whitepapers/email/582.php
Anti spam software
– Spam Filter vs. Spam Block - spameater.com/anti-spam-software.html
Spam server details
- gconnor.livejournal.com/97154.html
Spam
Filtering Survey - ist-socrates.berkeley.edu:7309/public/spam_survey.html
A Study of
Supervised Spam Detection - plg.uwaterloo.ca/~gvcormac/spamcormack.html
Review of Gordon
Cormack's Study of Spam Detection - www.zdziarski.com/papers/cormack.html
Comparing
SpamAssassin with CBDF email filtering - www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~mgl/cluk/papers/obrian.pdf
More on Spam - www.cookco.us/more_on_spam.htm
Traveler, a Spam-resistant
E-mail System - www.vsta.org/spam/Traveler.html
Spam filtering best
practice and how we filter spam - www.antespam.co.uk/how-we-filter-spam/
Spam
Fighting at CERN - mmmtf.web.cern.ch/mmmtf/Minutes/2003-02-18/spamkiller.pdf
CERN
AntiSpam Server side - https://websvc06.cern.ch/mmmservices/Antispam/ActionServer.aspx
Deployment Experience: Rolling Out
a New Antispam Solution in a Large Corporation - www.ceas.cc/2006/2.pdf
Solving big problems
with Open Source: e-mail - www.potentialtech.com/wmoran/spam.pdf
Email
filtering with MIMEDefang - www.xs4all.nl/~johnpc/mimedefang-modular/yapceu2005.pdf
Using PostFix To Reject
Spam - honeypot.net/filtering-spam-postfix
Greylisting, SpamAssassin, SpamProbe,
Image Spam, DNSWL, and Viruses - www.chaosreigns.com/spam/
Fighting Spam
in an ISP Environment - www.roaringpenguin.com/files/isp-spam.pdf
ASSP — extracting
the ham from the spam - www.uniforum.chi.il.us/slides/assp.ppt
- mirrors: 1
pi's Bogofilter page - piology.org/bogofilter/
Yahoo,
Gmail and Spamcop Email & Spam Filtering Stats, 2006 - daggle.com/email-spam-filtering-stats-jan-12-2006-50
A
Last Go At Spam Filtering Before Whitelisting - daggle.com/a-last-go-at-spam-filtering-before-whitelisting-56
Stats Say:
Sticking With Gmail! - daggle.com/stats-say-sticking-with-gmail-58
How I Filter Spam
- www.multicians.org/thvv/spamfilt.html
Postini: Google's
take on e-mail security - news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10276548-83.html
Spam Filtering References
Verisign's SiteFinder and Spam Filtering
Verisign's Wildcard Service Deployment - www.icann.org/en/general/wildcard-history.htm
Email and Spam Research Groups
IBM
Anti-Spam Research - domino.research.ibm.com/comm/research_projects.nsf/pages/spam.index.html
DoI: Denial of Information
- www.cc.gatech.edu/projects/doi/
Collaborative Center for Internet
Epidemiology and Defenses (CCIED) - ccied.sysnet.ucsd.edu/
Max-Planck-Institut
Informatik Machine Learning Group - www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/departments/rg2/
Microsoft Research
Machine Learning and Applied Statistics (MLAS) group - research.microsoft.com/en-us/groups/mlas/
Microsoft
Research S-GPS: Spammer Global Positioning System - research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/s-gps/
Cloudmark Research Group
- www.cloudmark.com/research/
Verisign
Security Research Anti-spam Schema - www.verisign.com/research/Security_Research/037091.html
Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
Laboratory at UAB - www.cis.uab.edu/kddm/
- papers
Computer Forensics Research
at UAB - www.cis.uab.edu/forensics/
Alek Kolcz et. al.
- ir.iit.edu/~alek/publications.html
Hanoi University
Anti-spam group - fit.hanu.edu.vn/antispam/research.html
Georgia Tech Networking
Group - www.cc.gatech.edu/~feamster/
Spammer Techniques
The Spammers' Compendium - www.jgc.org/tsc/
Observed Trends in Spam Construction
Techniques: A Case Study of Spam Evolution - www.ceas.cc/2006/4.pdf
Spammer Tricks
- www.rickconner.net/spamweb/tricks.html
How to spot
a spam website - www.rickconner.net/spamweb/spamwebsites.html
Tricks for
protecting spam websites - www.rickconner.net/spamweb/web-dns-tricks.html
Spammer Tricks
- gregsearle.tripod.com/spam_tech.html
The Effects of AntiSpam Methods
on Spam Mail - www.ceas.cc/2006/24.pdf
Spam Techniques - st.do.homeunix.org/
A
day in the life of a spammer - matthias.leisi.net/archives/126-A-day-in-the-life-of-a-spammer.html
Pathological Study
of Junk Mails - junkmatcher.sourceforge.net/Pathology/
Round
robin DNS - www.spamtrackers.eu/wiki/index.php?title=Round_robin
Pharmacy Alert Security Team
- pharmalert.zoomshare.com/
Image
spam by the numbers - www.csoonline.com/article/221254/Image_Spam_By_the_Numbers
ISP
Spam Issues - www.spamhaus.org/faq/answers.lasso?section=ISP%20Spam%20Issues
Host
cloaking technique used by spammers - thespamdiaries.blogspot.com/2006/02/new-host-cloaking-technique-used-by.html
Know Your Enemy: Fast-Flux
Service Networks - www.honeynet.org/papers/ff/
Spamscatter:
Characterizing Internet Scam Hosting Infrastructure - www.cs.ucsd.edu/~voelker/pubs/spamscatter-security07.pdf
Anatomy of Spam - anatomyofspam.spaces.live.com/
Do Zebras get more
Spam than Aardvarks? - www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rnc1/aardvark.pdf
A Survey
of Modern Spam Tools - www.ceas.cc/2008/papers/ceas2008-paper-35.pdf
An
Empirical Analysis of Spam Marketing Conversion - www.icsi.berkeley.edu/pubs/networking/2008-ccs-spamalytics.pdf
A Campaign-based
Characterization of Spamming Strategies - www.ceas.cc/2008/papers/ceas2008-paper-45.pdf
ASCII: An artful
way around spam filters - news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10025917-93.html
Bayesian
Spam Filter Poisoning With RSS - robert.accettura.com/blog/2007/01/29/bayesian-spam-filter-poisoning-with-rss/
Understanding
the Network-Level Behavior of Spammers - gatech.academia.edu/AnirudhVadakkedathRamachandran/Papers/11974/Understanding-the-network-level-behavior-of-spammers
Spammer
Economy and Infrastructure - www.spamtrackers.eu/wiki/index.php?title=Spammer_Economy_and_Infrastructure
Evil
Searching - www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2009/02/25/evil-searching/
Spam
in my Calendar? - www.avertlabs.com/research/blog/index.php/2008/05/07/spam-in-my-calendar/
Google
Docs used in latest spam run - itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/security-bytes/google-docs-used-in-latest-spam-run/
Most
Spam Sites Tied to a Handful of Registrars - blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2008/05/most_spam_sites_tied_to_a_hand_1.html
Registrar research by Knujon
- www.knujon.com/registrars/
Anonymous
Domain Sales: A Spammer's Delight - blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2008/06/anonymous_domain_sales_a_spamm_1.html
Spam
Crisis in China - garwarner.blogspot.com/2009/06/spam-crisis-in-china.html
Report:
botnets sent over 80% of all June spam - arstechnica.com/security/news/2009/06/report-botnets-send-over-80-of-all-spam-in-june.ars
Spammers
Shorten Their URLs - bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/07/spammers-shorten-their-urls/
Spam Filtering Benchmarks and Reviews
Testing the effectiveness of spam filtering.
Spam Filter Benchmarking and Testing
VeriTest
Anti-Spam Benchmark Service - www.lionbridge.com/lionbridge/en-US/services/software-product-engineering/testing-veritest.htm
TREC Spam Filter Evaluation
Tool Kit - plg.uwaterloo.ca/~gvcormac/jig/
Discovery Challenge
- www.ecmlpkdd2006.org/challenge.html
Generic Test for Unsolicited
Bulk Email (GTUBE) - spamassassin.apache.org/gtube/
Spirent Avalanche - www.spirent.com/
Global-scale
Anti-spam Testing in Your Own Back Yard - www.ceas.cc/2008/papers/ceas2008-paper-03.pdf
A Mail Client
Plugin for Privacy-Preserving Spam Filter Evaluation - www.ceas.cc/2008/papers/ceas2008-paper-52.pdf
The
nuances of measuring spam effectiveness - blogs.msdn.com/tzink/archive/2009/04/23/the-nuances-of-measuring-spam-effectiveness.aspx
The
nuances of measuring spam effectiveness, part 2 - blogs.msdn.com/tzink/archive/2009/04/27/the-nuances-of-measuring-spam-effectiveness-part-2.aspx
Spam Filter Reviews
Anti-spam Tool League Table - www.jgc.org/astlt/
Security
appliances keep mail stream clean - gcn.com/articles/2005/03/30/security-appliances-keep-mail-stream-clean.aspx
Spam Filters -
freshmeat.net/articles/spam-filters
SC Magazine
antispam - www.scmagazineus.com/spam-techniques/topic/98/0/
SC Magazine content
security awards - www.scmagazineuk.com/Awards/section/341/
SC
Magazine UK Email Security Group Test 2008 - www.scmagazineuk.com/Email-security-2008/GroupTest/131/
SC
Magazine UK Email Content Management Group Test 2008 - www.scmagazineuk.com/Email-content-management-2008/GroupTest/129/
SC
Magazine UK Email Content Filtering Group Test 2007 - www.scmagazineuk.com/Email-Content-Filtering-2007/GroupTest/93/
SC
Magazine US Email Content Filtering 2007 - www.scmagazineus.com/Email-Content-Filtering-2007/GroupTest/47/
SC
Magazine UK Email Content Filtering Group Test 2006 - www.scmagazineuk.com/Email-content-filtering-2006/GroupTest/86/
SC Magazine
UK Anti spam Group Test 2006 - www.scmagazineuk.com/Anti-spam-2006/GroupTest/79/
Bayesian Filtering,
a review - freshmeat.net/articles/spam-filters
Spam Filter Reviews
- spam-filter-review.toptenreviews.com/
Winning the
War on spam: Comparison of Bayesian spam filters - home.dataparty.no/kristian/reviews/bayesian/
WhichSpamFilter - www.whichspamfilter.com/
PCMAG antispam
software - www.pcmag.com/category2/0,1874,4795,00.asp
Spam Filtering II
- sam.holden.id.au/writings/spam2/
Four
Cans of Anti-Spam - sartryck.idg.se/Art/Antispamboxar_1_NOK182005e.html
DNS Blocklist
Accuracy Figures (as of July 2005) - wiki.apache.org/SpamAssassin/DnsblAccuracy082005
Enterprise
Spam Filters Review - www.networkcomputing.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleId=173602950
Connection scoring
beats spam filtering - windowssecrets.com/comp/060126/#story1
Wait
a minute Mr. Postman! - gcn.com/articles/2006/05/31/wait-a-minute-mr-postman.aspx
Anti-Spam State
of the Art - spam.ani.univie.ac.at/files/FA384018-1.pdf
Email Classification
- www.massey.ac.nz/~tameyer/research/spambayes/
Network
World anti-spam buyer's guide - www.networkworld.com/buyersguides/guide.php?cat=865463
Network
World: Spam in the Wild, The Sequel - www.networkworld.com/reviews/2004/122004spampkg.html
Managed
Anti-Spam and Content Filtering - www.isp-planet.com/technology/mssp/2006/mssp6a.html
Spam challenge:
the winners! - en.onsoftware.com/spam-challenge-the-winners/
More Than Just Mail Filtering
Firewalls, routers, DNS and playing it slow.
Network Based Spam Filtering
Cutting off IP connectivity
to spam sources - spam.abuse.net/adminhelp/ip.shtml
Spam Blocking with a Dynamically
Updated Firewall Ruleset - deny-spammers.sourceforge.net/
Packetbl
- wiki.duskglow.com/tiki-index.php?page=Packetbl
MAPS
RBL BGP Feed Configuration FAQ for Cisco Routers - www.pch.net/documents/tutorials/maps-rbl-bgp-cisco-config-faq.html
Source Device Fingerprinting
Openbsd's fingerprinting
and shaping used for evil^Wgood - use.perl.org/~merlyn/journal/17094
Some p0f Data - taint.org/2006/10/03/193930a.html
Passively
OS Fingerprinting Email with PF - blog.insidesystems.net/articles/2006/06/06/OS-Fingerprinting-Email
p0f analyzer -
www.ijs.si/software/p0f-analyzer.pl
Exploiting
Transport-Level Characteristics of Spam - www.ceas.cc/2008/papers/ceas2008-paper-17.pdf
Playing it Slow
Nolisting
Nolisting - www.joreybump.com/code/howto/nolisting.html
Unlisting
Unlisting: Port Knocking for SMTP - www.joreybump.com/code/howto/unlisting.html
Blacklisting vs. Content Filters
Some views about the benefits or otherwise of “blacklists” or content filters.
Filters vs. Blacklists
- www.paulgraham.com/falsepositives.html
Who Runs The
Blocklists? - www.linxnet.com/misc/spam/blocklists.html
Why Content Blocking Does
Not Work - www.knujon.com/contentblock.html
Distributed Spam Filtering
Distributed or collaborative spam filtering uses shared data to fine-tune filtering algorithms. It usually relies on some means to identify an email as belonging to a larger set of near-identical emails (bulk or campaign identification), and then deciding whether that group of emails (rather than each individual email) is spam or not. It also involves many cooperating sites or individuals who can share their understanding or opinion of messages.
Distributed
[spam] Early Warning System - www.radagast.org/~dplatt/dews/dews-design-sketch.txt
Spam Agent Architecture
- linux.ucla.edu/~larva/spam-agent/
Attack Resistant
Trust Metric Metadata HOWTO - www.levien.com/free/tmetric-HOWTO.html
Spam
Inoculation Messages - www.zdziarski.com/papers/draft-spamfilt-inoculation-03.txt
Personalised,
Collaborative Spam Filtering (CASSANDRA) - https://www.cs.tcd.ie/publications/tech-reports/reports.04/TCD-CS-2004-36.pdf
[1]
Reputation Network
Analysis for Email Filtering - trust.mindswap.org/papers/emailPaper/
[1]
Complement
Set Filtering - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complement_set_email_filtering
SpamWatch - www.cs.berkeley.edu/~zf/spamwatch/
Personalised, collaborative
spam filtering - www.ceas.cc/papers-2004/132.pdf
Berkeley Workshop
on Collaborative Filtering - www2.sims.berkeley.edu/resources/collab/
Collaborative Filtering Research
Papers - jamesthornton.com/cf/
Collaborative Filtering
- pespmc1.vub.ac.be/COLLFILT.html
Resolving
FP-TP Conflict in Digest-Based Collaborative Spam Detection by Use of Negative
Selection Algorithm - www.ceas.cc/2008/papers/ceas2008-paper-56.pdf
An Open Digest-based
Technique for Spam Detection - spdp.dti.unimi.it/papers/pdcs04.pdf
Nilsimsa
- ixazon.dynip.com/~cmeclax/nilsimsa.html
Nilsimsa (Ruby port)
- rubyforge.org/projects/nilsimsa/
Nilsimsa
(Perl port) - search.cpan.org/~vipul/Digest-Nilsimsa/Nilsimsa.pm
Text Classification Spam Filtering
Most text classification spam filters use machine learning of some form to learn how to filter, rather than building rules manually. First implemented in several client side spam filters, it now holds much more potential as part of a server side spam filter, or as a feed for a DNSBL with less serious collateral damage. Baye's theorem is the buzzword of the day.
Spam Classification Overviews
Introduction
to Bayesian Filtering - www.process.com/precisemail/bayesian_filtering.htm
SpamBayes Background
Reading - spambayes.sourceforge.net/background.html
Why
Bayesian filtering is the most effective - www.gfi.com/whitepapers/why-bayesian-filtering.pdf
Machine
Learning for Text Classification - www.daviddlewis.com/publications/slides/lewis-2003-0117-spamconf.html
Filtering Research
- www.paulgraham.com/bayeslinks.html
Spam
Detection - radio.weblogs.com/0101454/stories/2002/09/16/spamDetection.html
Statistics
and the war on spam. In Statistics, A Guide to the Unknown
Stopping
spam with statistic - research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/joshuago/significance-spam_edited2-times.pdf
A Plan for Spam - www.paulgraham.com/spam.html
Better Bayesian Filtering
- www.paulgraham.com/better.html
About
Bayesian Spam Filtering - email.about.com/cs/bayesianfilters/a/bayesian_filter.htm
Spam Classification Bibliographies
Bibliography
on Machine Learning for Spam Detection - liinwww.ira.uka.de/bibliography/Ai/MLSpamBibliography.html
www.iis.sinica.edu.tw/~jhwang/spam-paper.html
research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/joshuago/spambibliography.mht
Spam Classification Research
- Spam Classification Research 2008
- Spam Classification Research 2007
- Spam Classification Research 2006
- Spam Classification Research 2005
- Spam Classification Research 2004
- Spam Classification Research 2003
- Spam Classification Research 2002
- Spam Classification Research 2001
- Spam Classification Research 2000
- Spam Classification Research 1999
- Spam Classification Research 1998 and earlier
Spam Classification Research 2008
Adaptive Spam Filtering
Using Only Naive Bayes Text Classifiers
Introduction of Fingerprint
Vector based Bayesian Method for Spam Filtering
Joint NLP Lab between
HIT2 and CEAS Spam-filter Challenge 2008
Toward a
stochastic speech act model of email behavior
Personalized
Spam Filtering for Gray Mail
Improved
Phishing Detection using Model-Based Features
Filtering
Email Spam in the Presence of Noisy User Feedback
Advances
in online learning-based spam filtering
Spam Classification Research 2007
Technology
Impact Assessment: Fingerprinting versus Bayesian Filtering
Intent
Based Filtering of Spam
Improving Spam Filtering
by Detecting Gray Mail
Hardening Fingerprinting
by Context
Dirichlet-Enhanced
Spam Filtering based on Biased Samples
Online
Active Learning Methods for Fast Label-Efficient Spam Filtering
Spam Classification Research 2006
Spam Filtering with Naive Bayes
— Which Naive Bayes?
Online Discriminative Spam Filter
Training
Batch and Online Spam Filter Comparison
Learning at Low False Positive
Rates
Fast Uncertainty Sampling for Labeling
Large E-mail Corpora
Breaking Anti-Spam Systems with
Parasitic Spam
An Adaptive, Semi-Structured Language
Model Approach to Spam Filtering on a New Corpus
An Empirical Study of Clustering
Behavior of Spammers and Group-based Anti-Spam Strategies
The challenges of service-side
personalized spam filtering: scalability and beyond
Topic Models Based Personalized
Spam Filter - see: PDF,
slides
Spam Classification Research 2005
SMTP Path Analysis
Spam Corpus Creation for
TREC
Spamato – An Extendable
Spam Filter System
GoodWord Attacks on Statistical
Spam Filters
Naive Bayes Spam Filtering
Using Word-Position-Based Attributes
Scalable and Reliable Collaborative
Spam Filters: Harnessing the Global Social Email Networks
Stopping Outgoing Spam
by Examining Incoming Server Logs
Comparative Graph Theoretical
Characterization of Networks of Spam and Legitimate Email
Spam Deobfuscation using
a Hidden Markov Model
Let Your CyberAlter Ego Share
Information and Manage Spam
Leveraging
Social Networks to Fight Spam
Spam Classification Research 2004
Canning
more than SPAM
A Unified
Model Of Spam Filtration
Scalable Centralized Bayesian Spam Mitigation with Bogofilter
Improving spam filtering by
combining Naïve Bayes with simple k-nearest neighbor searches
Chung Kwei
The Impact of Feature Selection
on Signature-Driven Spam Detection
Word Stemming to Enhance
Spam Filtering
Exploring Support Vector
Machines and Random Forests for Spam Detection
Filtron: A Learning-Based
Anti-Spam Filter
On Attacking Statistical
Spam Filters
SpamBayes: Effective open-source
email classification system
Trends in Spam Products
and Methods
Spamguru: An enterprise
anti-spam filtering system
On attacking statistical
spam filters
How to beat a bayesian
spam filter
Advanced language
classification using chained tokens
The plateau
at 99.9
The more things change:
Volatility and stability in spam features
Behavior
based spam detection
Email
Mining Toolkit
An
artificial neural network spam classifier
Spam filtering
using contextual network graphs
Spam,
damn spam, and statistics: Using statistical analysis to locate spam web
pages
Characterizing
Spam Traffic
Bayesian Noise Reduction: Contextual
Symmetry Logic Utilizing Pattern Consistency Analysis
Personal Email Networks:
An Effective Anti-Spam Tool
Learning to Filter
Junk E-Mail from Positive and Unlabeled Examples
Spam Classification Research 2003
A comparison of
event models for naive bayes anti-spam e-mail filtering
On memory-bound
functions for fighting spam
Moderately
Hard, Memory-bound Functions
A
case-based approach to spam filtering that can track concept drift
'In
vivo' spam filtering: A challenge problem for data mining
Using
latent semantic indexing to filter spam
Parameterization
of Naïve Bayes for Spam Filters
A memory-based
approach to anti-spam filtering for mailing lists
Spam
filters: Bayes vs. chi-squared; letters vs. words
Bayesian spam filtering
tweaks
Sparse binary
polynomial hash message filtering and the crm114 discriminator
Automatic
feature induction for text classification
Spam Classification Research 2002
Robust Feature
Selection by Mutual Information Distributions
Evaluating cost-sensitive unsolicited bulk email categorization
Spam Classification Research 2001
Boosting Trees for Anti-Spam
Email Filtering
Stacking classifiers for anti-spam
filtering of e-mail
A
Memory-Based Approach to Anti-Spam Filtering for Mailing Lists [1]
SVM-based filtering
of e-mail spam with content-specific misclassification costs
Spam Classification Research 2000
An evaluation of Naïve
Bayesian anti-spam filtering
ifile:
An application of machine learning to mail filtering [1]
Learning to filter spam-email:
A comparision of a naïve Bayesian and memory-based approach
A
comparative study of classification-based personal e-mail filtering
An
experimental comparison of naive bayesian and keyword-based anti-spam filtering
with personal e-mail messages
Combining text and heuristics for cost-sensitive spam filtering
Spam Classification Research 1999
Naïve-Bayes
vs. Rule-Learning in Classification of Email
Performance Comparison between Genetic Programming & Naïve Bayes
Spam Classification Research 1998 and earlier
A
Bayesian Approach to Filtering Junk E-mail [1]
SpamCop:
A Spam Classification & Organization Program
Learning
Rules that classify Email
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