outlook express spam filter

A simple spam filter for MS Outlook 2000/XP that uses Turing Tests to filter spam-bots. Freeware. TT-Jump is the ultimate solution for automatically generated junk e-mail (spam). It filters spam away not by trying to analyze the incoming messages and tell which spam from not spam, but by verifying the that the sender is an actual human being and not an automated spam-bot. To do that, a very simple Turing Test (a test that can tell computers from people) is presented to anyone who sends you emails: the messages are accepted if the Turing Test is passed, and filtered into a junk e-mail folder otherwise. The current implementation of TT-Jump is made in Visual Basic.Net and CDO (Communication Data Objects) because it was the fastest and easiest way to do it. As a result, it has the following limitations: - TT-Jump works only with MS Outlook (Outlook Express and most other e-mail clients don't support CDO); - it does not support Hotmail (CDO crashes miserably when it tries to access Hotmail through Outlook), and - you have to install .Net framework on your computer before you can run TT-Jump.

US regulators have obtained a court order to shut down a sex-oriented spam operation that has sent out millions of emails urging recipients to "date lonely housewives".According to the Federal Trade Commission, a federal court in Chicago has issued an order freezing the assets of the operation, which officials say "violates nearly every provision of the CAN-SPAM Act", the federal law aimed at curbing unwanted email.
Named in the FTC complaint were Cleverlink Trading of California, Real World Media, and their owners, Brian Muir, Jesse Goldberg and Caleb Wolf Wickman.
The FTC says these companies control more than 180 websites, including wantmorebabes.com, hotobjectofdesire.biz, maxfulltime. info, wiveswhocheat69.biz and hook uptomorrow.com
It says the messages are designed to make the recipients think they come from "a purported internet dating service containing lonely housewives who want casual sexual relationships".
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"The purpose of the spam is to make money," the complaint says.
"The spam messages drive consumers to websites soliciting consumers to purchase access to the defendants' main membership site. The money that consumers pay for the site access goes directly to the defendants. In a four-month period alone, the defendants took in nearly $US700,000 ($920,000) in membership fees."
The operators used an offshore payment processor at St Kitts in the Caribbean and used a Cyprus-based company name and address as a front.
The FTC says the operation violates virtually every provision of the US spam law by routing messages through other people's computers, falsifying contact email addresses and failing to give recipients a way to stop receiving the messages.
The spam also includes sexual materials in the initially viewable area of the email, in violation of the FTC's adult labelling rule.
A hearing is pending on an injunction and an FTC request to recover "ill-gotten gains" of the operation.

In the decade or so since Web access became a consumer commodity, we’ve fixed many things about the Internet, from the pokey speed limit of dial-up modems to browsers that crash three times an hour. But spam is a bigger nuisance than ever.It starts taking its toll long before it lands in your inbox. First, spammers employ spyware and viruses to hijack home and office computers for use as unwitting relays for junk e-mail. Then your Internet provider must spend time and money running filters, lest its computers be swamped.The junk e-mail that inevitably leaks through wastes your time and bandwidth as you wait for each message to download. Almost all of it insults your intelligence and good sense; spam assumes we’re drug-addicted, money-grubbing, porn-addled fools ready to click on any stupid offer.And the single worst thing about spam? Enough recipients do click on those stupid offers to keep spammers in business.Nobody has found a technological fix for spam. The Internet’s design puts a priority on the free flow of data. Internet providers, too many of which still whore themselves out to spammers, and spammers’ own cockroach-like tenacity all but ensure there won’t be.Because the Internet spans the world, laws aren’t likely to solve this problem either, although I am always delighted to see spammers being litigated into poverty, fined into bankruptcy or imprisoned until senility sets in.Spam can, however, be managed. You can make your e-mail address a smaller target for spammers, and you can shunt aside a healthy chunk of the spam that does find you.If you can keep your address off spammers’ lists, you will get little or no junk e-mail. So never post your e-mail address on any public spot on the Web, and be choosy about giving it to strangers or companies.Instead, create a second, throwaway account at any of the free Web-mail services, such as Yahoo Mail, Hotmail or Gmail, and use that for online commerce. Most Web sites won’t share your address with the world – but a few might, so why chance it?This method will not, however, defeat a dictionary attack, in which spammers send messages to randomly chosen names at popular Internet providers. Having an address with an unusual spelling or at a lesser-known provider can reduce vulnerability.When spam arrives, never respond to it. And make sure your mail software isn’t doing that for you: If it displays a picture in a spam message, it often does so by downloading the image from the spammer’s Web site, which tells the sender you just read the spam.Current releases of the major mail programs – Microsoft’s Outlook Express and Outlook, Apple’s Mail, Qualcomm’s Eudora and Mozilla’s Thunderbird – won’t display pictures in mail from strangers. But older versions will, so upgrade now.

Even being as careful as possible with my email address, I still used to receive more than 100 email messages a day, which is no exaggeration. Only about 10% of those emails were from people that I knew and the rest of the messages were unwanted email…"spam". And I'm sure you can relate to my frustration. It is estimated that over seventy-six billion unwanted email messages were delivered in 2003, costing companies more than $10 billion each year.
So How Do They Get Our Email Addresses?
In making online purchases, you should always realize that your email address could be given or sold, regardless of what the merchant's privacy policy may state. Even filling out an online survey or registering your email address to become a member of a web site is subject to having your email address given away. Also, there are spider programs that spammers use that search the web and "harvest" email addresses, much like search engine spiders do when they acquire web site information.
Tips To Avoid Getting Spam
1. Don't Click "Unsubscribe": On the bottom of some spam emails you will find an "Unsubscribe" link. Some of these are legitimate links, while others are tools to indicate that your email address is valid. Unsubscribing could actually result in getting more unwanted email.
2. Spam Filtering: Some ISPs or domain services carry spam filtering options, and there are filters and rules you can use in some email programs (i.e. Microsoft Outlook, Eudora and Apple's Mail OSX). While no spam filtering program can eliminate spam completely, it can greatly reduce the amount of spam you receive. But you must be careful in using any sort of spam filtering mechanism, as you may ultimately filter out some of your wanted email.
3. Get Two Email Addresses: Use your primary email address for business or personal use, and the other for making online purchases and for filling out web site registration information.
4. Update Your Web Site: The best overall solution is to have people contact you through a form on your web site, as your email address is not so easily revealed. If you must have direct links to your email address on your site, consider having a link that simply reads "email" or "contact" instead of spelling it out on a web page.
There are many simple methods that you can use to help reduce the amount of spam coming through to your business. By using these tips, you will not only save yourself time and money, but you will ultimately send a strong message to the people send unwanted email.

HelpMeSoft a San Diego based Corporation announced the release of NUCEM Spam Terminator version 3.NUCEM™ (No Unsolicited Commercial E-Mail) pronounced nuke-'em improves personal productivity by eliminating what each e-mail user perceive to be spam from their Inbox. NUCEM™ is 3 times more effective at blocking spam when compared with the next best anti-spam service, and almost 10 times more effective compared with the next best anti-spam product. NUCEM™ installs in minutes and is completely intuitive so e-mail users are spam free without complicated configurations or lengthy user manuals. NUCEM™ blocks over 99% of spam from the Inbox, and continues to improve as the e-mail user trains it to recognize e-mail that they perceive to be spam and most important, they can train NUCEM™ to trust newsletters that may look like spam. NUCEM™ is seamlessly integrated into Microsoft Outlook, so that e-mail users continue to work in a familiar e-mail program. Using a proprietary e-mail classifier NUCEM™ accurately differentiates between valid e-mail and spam because spam uses distinct patterns, styles and vocabulary, which is distinguishable from traditional e-mail. This technology is extremely accurate (99%) in detecting spam, while exhibiting a very lower incidence of detecting valid e-mail as spam (false-positive).The key distinguishable characteristics of NUCEM™ are:* Accurate Spam Detection > 99% * False Positive Detection < 0.1%* Limit size of quarantine folder* Simple One Click Solution* Immune to spammer's avoidance techniques* Supports Hotmail, IMAP, Yahoo, POP and Exchange Accounts* Customized Spam Definition

Developing countries are being overwhelmed with spam--a situation that threatens to widen the global digital divide, according to a new report.
Countries like Malaysia, Nepal and Nigeria lack the bandwidth, technical know-how and financial resources to effectively combat junk e-mail, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said in the report, released this week (Click here for PDF).
As a result, Web users in those nations endure more outages and less reliable overall service than people in more developed countries, the Paris-based international economic think tank said.
"Spam is a much more serious issue in developing countries...as it is a heavy drain on resources that are scarcer and costlier in developing countries than elsewhere," states the report, which was written by Suresh Ramasubramanian, an OECD advisor and postmaster for Outblaze.com.
In addition, more spammers are setting up shop in less-developed countries as authorities and Internet service providers in the United States and Europe crack down on them. As ISPs in developing nations harbor more spammers, those providers increasingly land on international "block lists." That jams up e-mail services for their customers--spammers and regular Web users alike.
"Whatever the rationale behind large-scale blocking, it is a fact of life that is all too familiar to most ISPs in developing economies," the report noted.
In countries with a single ISP providing e-mail services, landing on a block list can cut the entire country off from e-mail access. That's just what happened in Costa Rica in a few years ago, when antispam campaign group Spamhaus blocked e-mail from the country for two whole days.
Individuals and businesses in developing countries, as elsewhere, often bear the worst of the spam burden. In addition, many Web users in those places rely on dial-up and pay-per-minute services at cybercafes, making junk e-mail all the more frustrating, the report said.
"All this effort and expense is completely wasted when the user finds that the downloaded e-mails are to a large extent random spam or viruses," the report states.
The OECD report also outlined a number of recommendations to improve the spam situation in developing nations. It urges ISPs in those countries to invest in spam-filter technology or in third-party filtering, and to adopt strong antispam policies.
The group also recommended that countries set up computer emergency response teams to coordinate responses to major incidents and vulnerabilities. It also calls on ISPs around the globe to assist each other in the fight against spam.
This week, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission announced it is linking up with counterparts abroad to combat zombie networks used by spammers. The different agencies plan to put pressure on ISPs to spot offending members and to cut those computers off their networks.

SPAMfighter SPAMfighter is an anti-spam plug in for Microsoft Outlook. SPAMfighter is an anti-spam plug in for Microsoft Outlook. Whenever new mail arrives, it will automatically be tested by the SPAMfighter server and if it's spam, it will be moved to your spam folder. It will use each and every spam email as a weapon against the spammers themselves. SPAMfighter is currently in English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Swedish and Danish language.

Symantec Brightmail Anti-Spam Version is a high performance software solution that blocks spam at the Internet gateway. Symantec Brightmail Anti-Spam Version 6.0 is a high performance software solution that blocks spam at the Internet gateway. Combining several patented techniques, Symantec Brightmail Anti-Spam offers the best accuracy rate available in spam filtering technology, with an industry leading false positive rate of fewer than 1 false positive in every 1 million messages identified as spam. Key Features: Stops spam attacks in real time without compromising accuracy Multi-layered spam protection leverages over 17 different filtering technologies, including spam signatures, heuristics, reputation filters, language identification,and many proprietary methods Flexible spam management and mail policies let IT administrators customize and enforce spam and unwanted mail handling for different groups or users in an organization Intuitive Web-based Control Center enables powerful administration, centralizing and consolidating the management, customization, configuration, and monitoring of all parts of the system Consolidated reporting gives administrators visibility into aggregated filtering performance for deployed servers Administrators can quickly create custom organization-wide content filters to handle messages based on content, sender information, or other criteria Comprehensive threat protection helps consolidate email threat management and monitoring via optional virus scanning and cleaning Desktop plug-ins for popular email clients empower end users to take control of their inboxes by specifying approved languages, personal lists of allowed and blocked senders, and other settings Integrated email security solutions reduce the cost and complexity of ownership Protects against spam, email-borne viruses, and other unwanted email Symantec Brightmail AntiSpam™ combines effective spam catching with a high accuracy rate that prevents false positives. This award-winning spam protection not only defends against real-time spam attacks, but also proactively identifies first-time spam. With flexible and powerful spam management capabilities, it meets enterprise security needs without imposing a significant administrative burden. Leveraging multiple global operations centers, automated filter updates, and an unmatched view of global spam, Symantec allows administrators to solve their spam problem, not just manage it. Multi-layered spam protection combines over 17 different filtering technologies that maximize spam detections (95% effectiveness*) and minimize false positives. Some of the filters are reputation-based, examining the source of the email. Others sift through the message content, applying signatures or heuristics technology. Attachment signatures and spam URL filters provide protection against the latest MIME and HTML-based filter evasion techniques used by spammers. Updated filters are automatically deployed to customer sites, requiring no administrator intervention. Highly effective spam catching is accompanied by the industry’s best accuracy rate—one false positive in every million messages**. High accuracy rates allow customers to safely delete spam without review, eliminating the need to double-check quarantines for false positives. The solution features a powerful Web-based administration console that includes both an administrator and end user quarantine. Administrators can enforce company or departmental handling of spam and unwanted mail by using policies that perform different actions for different groups or users in an organization. Supported actions include message modification or deletion, forwarding to an administrative email account, or quarantining for administrator or end user review.

Outlook Spam Filter 3.0 is an easy-to-use Microsoft Outlook® add-on designed to provide an advanced protection against spammers and unsolicited emails. The program uses Bayesian filtering technology that identifies about 97% of incoming spam messages. Outlook Spam Filter seamlessly integrates into the Microsoft Outlook® workspace, scanning and quarantining away junk emails. Caught spam is placed in a special 'Spam' folder under your inbox if you ever want to review it later.
Outlook Spam Filter operates under Microsoft Windows 98/Me/NT/2000/XP and Microsoft Outlook 2000/XP/2003. The program enables users to run and manage their friends and enemies lists, build their own filters or set it to block any messages written in non-English character set.
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Spam may be a global problem but it's hurting users in developing countries more than their counterparts in industrialized nations, according to a new report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris.
Numerous underdeveloped countries, especially in Africa and Asia, lack the knowledge, technology and money to effectively combat the growing flow of junk e-mail over their domestic communication networks. As a result, users in these regions suffer from more outages and less reliable service, and are often distrustful of the Internet -- all factors that threaten to widen the global digital divide.
"Spam is a much more serious issue in developing countries than in OECD countries, as it is a heavy drain on resources that are scarcer and costlier in developing countries than elsewhere," the report states.
The report, prepared by Suresh Ramasubramanian, a consultant to the OECD, reflects many of the concerns voiced at a meeting on spam held last year with representatives of developing countries in preparation for the second phase of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in December.
High volumes of incoming and outgoing spam are a severe drain on the meager available bandwidth in developing countries, according to the report. ISPs (Internet service providers) in developing countries face huge costs for receiving, storing and forwarding spam over their networks, and for hiring administrators to do spam filtering when their skills could be devoted to other tasks, it said.
Moreover, ISPs with lax antispam and security policies are likely to find their networks overrun by spammers. Spam will increasingly form more of their incoming mail streams, thus making e-mail practically unusable for their customers. Open relays, open proxies and machines infected with viruses or Trojan horses on their networks will become major spam sources.
Spam also digs deeply into the shallow pockets of users in developing countries. Users in these countries typically rely on dialup Internet access at home or share access at cyber cafes with connections that are often slow and expensive as they have to pay for each byte of data they download.
Telephone infrastructure in developing countries is largely antiquated, adding to users' costs. After making a few attempts to log onto the network and finally get a connection, users are often disconnected and have to make several calls to establish a new connection.
"All this effort and expense is completely wasted when the users finds that the downloaded e-mails are to a large extent random spam or viruses," the report states.
Not only that, users in developing countries are particularly vulnerable to malicious spam and viruses because they often avoid purchasing expensive licenses for operating systems and antivirus programs -- worth a month's salary in many cases, according to the report. Consequently, they purchase cheaper -- and most likely pirated -- copies of software that is not only difficult to keep updated because it lacks proper licenses but is also a source of viruses.
To help curb spam and encourage people in developing countries to communicate via e-mail, authors of the OECD spam report listed several recommendations in its report. For a start, they urge governments to adopt legislation against spam and ISPs to invest in spam-filter technology or outsource their spam filtering to third-party providers.
The authors also recommend establishing computer security and incident response teams (CSIRTs) or computer emergency response teams (CERTs) to organize an effective response to major incidents, and call on ISPs around the globe to help each other fight the spread of spam.
And the ball doesn't stop there. The OECD spam experts also urge governments and ISPs in developing countries to launch widespread public education awareness campaigns in a move to reduce security risks from spam carrying viruses.