Wizcrafts Gets Honorable Mention on CastleCops, for MailWasher Pro Filters
My regular readers know that I use and promote the email screening program - MailWasher Pro. This inexpensive program screens incoming email for threats or spam, using a combination of blacklists, blocklists, user-reported known spam, "Bayesian" learning filters and best of all, user configurable filter rules. The user filters in MailWasher Pro allow for matching positive or negative words and Regular Expressions and are capable of detecting just about any known type of spam trick that exists, by employing the correct combinations of test conditions.
In my last Blog entry about MailWasher Pro I mentioned that I have developed custom filters to detect and delete image spam with garbage text. This spam is quite prevalent now and is entirely sent from tens of thousands of compromised home and office computers, that have been involuntarily drafted into BotNets, by spammers. Bothered by this senseless spam, mostly for investment stocks, I developed a group of filters that recognize variations of this crap and delete it automatically, without me ever having to see it. I have been fine-tuning my image spam filters to catch variations of the original coding, which is changing every week or two.
A few days ago I was reading new posts on the MailWasher Pro Forum at CastleCops, when I came across a topic where the OP (original poster) was looking for help to block these very image spam messages. I answered with a link to my online copy of my MailWasher Pro filters and made a few people very happy with the solution to this type of spam. Since spammers' techniques change frequently, I have been updating my filters to meet those changes, and posting news in a thread that now has my name in the Title. Additionally, I have been further honored by having my filters linked to in the MailWasher Wiki, on CastleCops.com.
If you are troubled by spam, whether in words or images, and are looking for a way to detect and delete it, without having to read it again, try MailWasher Pro. It is free to try for 30 days and only costs $37.00 USD to register, with free updates for life. You can learn more about MailWasher Pro here. There are links on that page to view my custom filters.
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