Fighting malware and spam
2007-01-01
Abstract
Anti-spam news; The TREC 2006 Spam Filter Evaluation Track (feature)
News
Government agencies take anti-phishing action
Spear-phishing awareness training and testing for staff.
UK anti-spam victory for Microsoft
Lawsuit won against UK spammer.
Feature
The TREC 2006 Spam Filter Evaluation Track
The 15th Text Retrieval Conference (TREC 2006) took place in November 2006. For the second time, TREC included a spam track, whose purpose was to create realistic standardized benchmarks to measure spam filter effectiveness in a laboratory setting. Gordon Cormack reports on the results.
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As expected, the annual VB100 test on Windows XP was an epic. A higher than usual pass rate was tempered by numerous stability issues with the products under test, prompting the unveiling of a new stability rating system. John Hawes has all the details.
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