Spam today represents as much as 85% of all e-mail sent and received, according to the U.N.'s International Telecommunications Union, up from approximately 35% just one year ago. Spam is a true global ...

Bayesian spam filtering is based on Bayes rule, a statistical theorem that gives you the probability of an event. Bayesian filtering is used to give you the probability that a certain email is spam. 2 ...

We suspect that you had more than enough mathematics in the form of Bayes Theorem last week so this week we’ll explain how it’s used in what is called Bayesian filtering to remove spam (note that the ...

Bayesian filtering is one of the most effective and intelligent solutions to combat spam email nowadays. Spam is a problem faced by all email users and it shows no sign of slowing down anytime soon; ...

Achieving a 98%+ spam detection rate using a mathematical approach This white paper describes how Bayesian mathematics can be applied to the spam problem, resulting in an adaptive, ‘statistical ...

Where can I find a Bayesian spam filter that will run on our Windows and Linux workstations? POPFile is a free Naive-Bayesian spam filter available at popfile.sourceforge.net. It is written in Perl to ...

Security firm Network Associates announced Monday that the latest update to SpamKiller, its bulk e-mail blocking product, adds pattern recognition based on Bayesian principles. Pattern recognition ...

Every day at MacFixIt, we wade through hundreds - often thousands - of individual e-mail messages on a daily basis. With e-mail address harvesters more active than ever, just "cutting the fat" ...

An analysis technique that has been applied to eliminating spam. It "learns" to differentiate real mail from advertising by examining the words and punctuation in large samples of both types of ...