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Repurposing Anti-Spam Tools For Detecting Mutations In HIV
chicksdaddy writes "Security researchers often use language and metaphors from the natural world to describe problems in the virtual world. (Consider 'virus,' and 'worm.') Now it turns out that the links may be more than just rhetoric. Microsoft Researchers say that tools they developed to detect spammers' efforts to avoid anti-spam filters were also great at spotting mutations in the HIV virus. A report from Microsoft Research in honor of World AIDS Day yesterday described how Microsoft Researchers David Heckerman and Jonathan Carlson were called upon to help AIDS researchers analyze data about how the human immune system attacks the HIV virus. To do so, they turned to tools and algorithms developed at Microsoft to detect and block spam e-mail in the company's Hotmail, Outlook and Exchange e-mail products."
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is also a created simulation. If so, then of course viruses in both computers and nature will share common characteristics.
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Come on gang, this is pretty cool.
To re-adapt the tech that picks up Nigerian Scams and send it to pick up HIV strains is pretty neat. I sure as **** didn't see that app.
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Thank god microsoft have not taken the Apple approach.
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Once my university decided to switch to MS as their email provider, the span in my inbox has gone up. They don't even have to use the trick of changing spellings, I get lots of junk about penis enlargement, hot Russian girls, and Viagra every day. What I do NOT get are emails from the registrar, the university police, and the Dean. Those all go to the junk folder. I suggest they take whatever data they get from these MS researchers and do the opposite.
They are using Microsoft's algorithms for this? Their horrible spam filters were the reason I abandoned Hotmail nearly a decade ago.
It would have been nice if some sort of example of how these things (spam and virual mutations) are alike was actually presented. The full article is no more useful than the abstract posted here.
Spam filters, viruses. Yeah, I can see the connection there. Now, if they were doing quality control on canned meat products....
Assuming Microsoft uses some form of naive Bayesian classifier to do spam filtering like everyone else does, their spam filtering technology was in use by a lot of other people for a lot of other things before it came to be a spam filter anyway.
http://dbacl.sourceforge.net/spam_chess.html
Now that's cool.
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... of you guys have made a lame "Blue screen of death" joke?
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But they should call google about the spam detecting algorithm...
If hotmail's spam filter is what they have to show for, thanks but I'll keep using condoms.
I'd rather die of AIDS then use some treatment developed using Microsoft's closed source algorithms.
You're probably just trolling, but it isn't just a 'fag disease'.
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What's sad is, people still think like that. It's a shame that few people know where AIDS came from. Short version, it's a result of overpopulation. AIDS has always existed, but when population density was lower, it wasn't transmitted between humans. Go ahead, look it up. See where AIDS actually came from. It most definitely was not divine intervention, in retribution for homosexuality. If that were so, it would have killed off all the queers, and left everyone else alone, right?
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So the war on spam and computer viruses has become as or more complex than figuring out how HIV mutates? How soon before it reaches cancer-level? lol
Maybe they should look at viruses and the immune system when designing spam filters.
They picked the wrong service! Hotmail allows soooo much spam through it's hard to believe they're filtering at all.
They should have gone with Google's anti-spam algorithms instead. I never get spam in my inbox, ever. But, my Hotmail inbox is full of it.
Why not both?
If the programmer is lazy enough, he'll write one tool that does both.
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... and none of the idiot Slashdotters even know what 'AIDS' means. How embarrassing. You parrot whatever the T.V. tells you, making out that you are so 'caring' and 'kind', for refusing to THINK about alternative hypotheses - you know, ones that actually accurately predict the spread (or lack thereof) of 'AIDS'...
Where to begin? How can one even hope to reach such arrogant idiots, who can't even begin to question what they've been told by the controlled media, in spite of the fact that all the evidence proves it's wrong?
Here's a clue: the number of people with STDs has been rising year upon year for DECADES, yet we don't see a massive increase in so-called 'AIDS' deaths among any groups in the Western world. What happened to the 'deadly' virus, that was killing gay men in the tens of thousands every year, in the U.S. alone?
Before you (stupidly) say 'it's the drugs that are keeping them alive', try reading the article 'The Trouble with Nevirapine'. (I won't hold my breath waiting for any of you to actually READ it, that would be too much like hard work. Just get on with vilifying me, and defending the 'Party meme' which you have been brainwashed with. How pathetic. And you actually think you're intelligent.)
"Hashing is being used in as diverse fields as oil drilling and pet retail stores". "Regexps show a deep link between creative accounting and scuba diving".
C'mon, man. Pattern matching is pattern matching. Abstraction is the staple of our profession. Sheesh.
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