Security Software: Anti Spam Email Software

November 28, 2009

The Internet. Ya gotta love it! But not everything about it wins our affection.

What’s the worst, most annoying and sometimes sinfully dangerous aspect of the World Wide Web?

SPAM!

It fills your inbox, you’re constantly on guard protecting yourself against it and if you drop that guard and click an unidentified link, you could be looking at losing all your data, not to mention bank account contents.

Unfortunately, it’s a fact of life. Spam’s here to stay – but it needn’t be such an invasive part of life.

Spam Blackout is an all-in-one solution from Heidi Computers Ltd, who have been around since 1989, for keeping your inbox clean, friendly and virus free. The software achieves this by catching the junk before it’s downloaded to your email client.

Let’s take a look at some of Spam Blackout’s features…

Whitelist / Blacklist email or IP addresses

Automatic checking against a dynamic known spammers blacklist

Scan and prohibit html email with white text – a tactic adopted by spammers to confuse the Bayesian Analysis engine.

Scan and prohibit html email with invalid tags; tags <> with text inside should not appear in html emails.

Scan and prohibit phishing email; for example an email claiming to be from your bank, asking you for personal details.

Scan and prohibit html email with links to external images; these images may contain code which, when clicked confirms your email as active and so leaves you open to further spam.

Scan and prohibit html email containing iframes.

Scan and prohibit html email with comments; non-spam email usually don’t contain comments.

Scan and prohibit html email with embeded scripts; non-spam email usually don’t contain scripts.

Scan and prohibit html email with random characters after html attributes; a spamming technique to confuse Bayesian Analysis engine.

Build a list of words commonly used by spammers; Spam Blackout scans the email header, body, from, subject or entire email for these words and prohibits them.

Using the Bayesian Analysis engine Spam Blackout calculates the probability of each message being spam.

Ban email receipt from an entire country.

Strip out all html from an email, leaving only text.

Delete, quarantine and/or compress any email attachments. A built in list protects you from known attacks.
Scan email downloaded from POP, IMAP or hotmail.

Email containing a virus is placed in quarantine, while legitimate messages marked falsely as spam are held on an encrypted server until you download them.

View emails in Spam Blackout’s Virus Proof viewer.

Synchronize your local time and date with an external server, so your message times and dates are always accurate.

Check for email at regular intervals of your choosing; default time is ten minutes.

Use Spam Blackout to check unlimited email addresses.

Spam Blackout’s Spam Filtering engine has a Plug-in architecture, allowing you to add new Spam Filters, which can be enabled/disabled and their execution order can be changed.