At Mail.ru launched a new spam filter
Kaspersky Labs and the company Mail.Ru announced the completion of testing and commissioning of a new anti-system. The introduction of new technology, according to the developers, has already resulted in 5 times to reduce the number of responses to the postal service users unwanted correspondence.
At the moment the new anti-blocking system for delivering boxes of users around 20 million spam messages a day. Some 80 million delayed earlier in the phase of open relay and filtering spam subnets.
The new decision, as stated in a press release, drafted earlier technologies Kaspersky Labs used to protect users from spam Mail.Ru for several years. The core system includes anti signature bases, which is constantly supplemented and varies depending on the current situation.
The system of checks online, not only the entire flow of incoming correspondence, but also the internal traffic (ie letters Mail.Ru at Mail.Ru), and outgoing messages. Uncertain distribution is made "on vague grounds, as well as using the base signatures and user feedback.
Statistical information about them and the award system is displayed in the administrator console commands analysts Mail.Ru. This information will allow analysts to monitor the progress of the system and make changes quickly, podstraivayas under unwanted lists. Time analysis and reaction to each new delivery of only a few minutes.
Also collected are used Mail.Ru and public lists "unreliable" senders - and open relay spam subnets.