SPAMfighter can now remove spam emails that contain only images
Released on = June 21, 2006, 5:58 am
Press Release Author = SPAMfighter
Industry = Software
Press Release Summary = Spam and phishing filter for Outlook/Express. Download free
SPAMfighter now!
Press Release Body = Spammers are getting more and more sophisticated, and one of
the tricks that is gaining ground is writing spam text in an image. Since spam
filters cannot "read" text in images and therefore cannot block such messages,
spammers have been freely able to spread their messages about drugs and cheap loans,
etc. But not any more.
SPAMfighter launched a revolutionary filter today that can stop these annoying
image-based spam messages.
The technology took six months to develop, and is extremely effective. When a
SPAMfighter user reports a spam message containing an image, the image is analysed
and a "DNA" identifier – a unique profile of the image – is sent to the SPAMfighter
Server, which checks to see whether other users have reported the same image as
spam. If so, the message containing the image is blocked for all other SPAMfighter
users.
"We are very proud to have solved a problem that is causing great difficulty for all
our competitors. It is simply Danish research at its best," says Martin Thorborg,
co-founder of SPAMfighter. "The technology will benefit our more than one million
users worldwide, and help us gain an even larger share of the security market."
SPAMfighter draws its power from the fact that 1.2 million users report spam as they
receive it, with a single click. Once several users have reported the same spam
message, it is automatically filtered for all other users. The result is that 98 per
cent of all spam is filtered out before it reaches any given user.
For more information, contact SPAMfighter ApS, Rovsingsgade 88, DK-2200 Copenhagen
N, Denmark. Phone: +45 7022 1551 Fax (Europe): +45 3323 0376 Fax (USA) +1 (347)
341-4657 Internet: http://www.spamfighter.com/ Email: info@spamfighter.com.
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SPAMfighter is Europe’s leading spam filter developer. The Danish company is owned
by the founders of Jubii.dk, Henrik Sørensen and Martin Thorborg, together with two
programmers, Daniel Hjortholt and Martin Dyring. SPAMfighter employs 17 people and
is based in Copenhagen. SPAMfighter is debt-free and is 100 per cent financed by
income from the sale of the SPAMfighter client. Each day, SPAMfighter removes 3
million spam messages from 4 million tested emails received by one million users in
207 countries/regions.
Web Site = http://www.spamfighter.com/default.asp
Contact Details = Address: Rovsingsgade 88, 2., Copenhagen N
Denmark
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