Virus Bulletin Spam Supplement - June 2008

Editor: Helen Martin

Technical Consultant: John Hawes

Technical Editor: Morton Swimmer

Consulting Editors: Ian Whalley, Nick FitzGerald, Richard Ford, Edward Wilding

2008-06-01

Abstract

Anti-spam news; Is your spam filter really adaptive? (Probably not) (feature)

News

Israel outlaws spam

Knesset approves new anti-spam legislation.

Helen Martin - Virus Bulletin, UK


Feature

Is your spam filter really adaptive? (Probably not)

Jonathan Zdziarski describes adaptive parsing - a technique that can be applied to a spam classifier’s parser to allow it to learn the most effective way to parse a corpus of mail.

Jonathan Zdziarski - Secure Computing, USA


Calendar

Anti-spam industry events

Must-attend events in the anti-spam industry - dates, locations and further details.



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Virus Bulletin - June 2008

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