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Innovators offer hope of curing spam

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Aren’t you sick of so-called anti-spam specialists banging on about how good their solutions are. I mean, if their products are so good, how is it that spam has risen from something like 80 percent of all email traffic to over 90 percent in the past few months?It’s easy to criticise, and the truth is things would be a whole lot worse if we just left the spammers to it. Indeed, when it comes to tackling the growing problem of image-based spam, there’s some pretty clever stuff out there.Most traditional filters are unable to detect and block image-based spam effectively because those clever spammers manage to make thousands of variations, each time altering the image by a tiny fraction, so that it can sail clean through.

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