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Kaspersky Anti-Spam a new approach to spam. (Internet Focus).


Kaspersky Anti-Spam is an anti-spam solution designed to protect against unwanted email messages. The product employs a revolutionary technology that linguistically analyses text, state-of-the-art email filtration and a collection of services that allow users, to weed out and destroy up to 95% of all unwanted mail traffic.

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 the latest data, on average, spare comprises between 15% ad 20% of all Internet mail See Internet e-mail service.  traffic. The biggest sufferers from the spam E-mail that is not requested. Also known as "unsolicited commercial e-mail" (UCE), "unsolicited bulk e-mail" (UBE), "gray mail" and just plain "junk mail," the term is both a noun (the e-mail message) and a verb (to send it).  epidemic are companies and individual users who rely heavily on the Internet to conduct their business--often the sheer volume of obtrusive ob·tru·sive  
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 advertisements and other unwanted correspondence in their mailboxes surpasses the amount of useful information. Spam already has stopped being just a simple issue regarding wasted work time, but has evolved into a massive global problem that threatens the normal functioning of the Internet itself. If current trends continue, by 2005 every second message in a virtual mailbox A simulated mailbox in the computer that holds e-mail messages. Mailboxes are stored on disk as a file of messages, a database of messages or as an individual file for each message. The standard mailboxes are usually In, Out, Trash and Junk (Spam).  will contain spam.

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Publication:Database and Network Journal
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Date:Apr 1, 2003
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