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Spam Doubles, Finding New Ways to Deliver Itself

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the soul-crushing-never-ending dept.

An anonymous reader noted that the times is running a piece on the rise in spam that you might have noticed in your inbox over the last 6 months. Gates promised the end of spam by 2006, but they figure it's doubled in the last few months. And best of all, a huge percentage of spam is now images that circumvent traditional text analysis.

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  1. Fuzzy OCR by Conception · · Score: 5, Informative

    There is a plugin for Spamassassin called Fuzzy OCR. It's false positive rate is pretty low and I haven't seen image spam for weeks.

    http://fuzzyocr.own-hero.net/wiki/Downloads