Israeli firm says its tech can solve spam
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Spam is the single most costly bane to the online world. A majority of the e-mail sent across globally constitutes unsolicited mail. And what adds more to these attacks is the fact that connectivity is on the rise. Meaning more zombie PCs to add to the spam menace.
A firm from Israel says it has developed a technology that can be of help in detecting zombie PCs on the web. Essentially, this would help is preventing mail from those systems from entering an enterprises networks increasing the bandwidth and ofcourse resulting a fewer cluttered inboxes.
The system is a mail reputation service that monitors IPs in real time to analyze is a particular IP is playing host to a massive number of mails. In that case, the IP will be capped on the number of mails that can be received from it. The real time monitoring was found to be very effective and the firm claimed success in pin pointing the origin of such IPs.
All said and done, what happens if the botnet herders decide on a sort of timing algorithms that shifts the load of e-mail equally across a massive herd of such machines. Then perhaps Commtouch's technology would not work that well, but at least there would be some trouble caused to the malware enthusiasts and that does mean a lot.
A firm from Israel says it has developed a technology that can be of help in detecting zombie PCs on the web. Essentially, this would help is preventing mail from those systems from entering an enterprises networks increasing the bandwidth and ofcourse resulting a fewer cluttered inboxes.
The system is a mail reputation service that monitors IPs in real time to analyze is a particular IP is playing host to a massive number of mails. In that case, the IP will be capped on the number of mails that can be received from it. The real time monitoring was found to be very effective and the firm claimed success in pin pointing the origin of such IPs.
All said and done, what happens if the botnet herders decide on a sort of timing algorithms that shifts the load of e-mail equally across a massive herd of such machines. Then perhaps Commtouch's technology would not work that well, but at least there would be some trouble caused to the malware enthusiasts and that does mean a lot.
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