Monday, April 16, 2007
Reducing Image Spam
We are pleased to announce that our spam scanning service has been upgraded to include intelligent scanning of images within emails using a number of techniques including OCR (Optical Character Recognition). The system has been developed entirely in house using a third party OCR package.
A recent snapshot of statistics show.
Messages blocked by :
49,458 DNS blacklists
835 SpamAssasin
792 NEW Image scanning
4,661 Messages accepted as clean
The new scanner represents a 15% fall in the number of messages accepted for delivery.
A recent snapshot of statistics show.
Messages blocked by :
49,458 DNS blacklists
835 SpamAssasin
792 NEW Image scanning
4,661 Messages accepted as clean
The new scanner represents a 15% fall in the number of messages accepted for delivery.