PineApp blocks PDF spam in real time.PineApp is staying one step ahead of the image based spammers as they try to avoid detection by sending spam images as PDF (Portable Document Format) The de facto standard for document publishing from Adobe. On the Web, there are countless brochures, data sheets, white papers and technical manuals in the PDF format. attachments. PineApp's Mail-Secure anti-spam solution with its advanced RPDTM (Recurrent Pattern Detection) technology detects spam automatically by instantly recognising new outbreaks, regardless of the format. This meant that Mail-Secure users experienced zero degradation with no false positives from the very first PDF image spam An e-mail advertisement in the form of an image in the message rather than text in order to avoid detection as spam. Spam filters typically analyze words in a message, which is relatively fast, but scanning images with optical character recognition (OCR) to extract the text is slow. attacks. Image based spam now accounts for some 50% percentage of all spam and as detection of embedded and attached image spam--such as .gif or .bmp files--has improved across the industry, spammers have quickly moved to using Macromedia's PDF format. When the PDF attachment is opened, it displays a common stock 'pump-and-dump' spam image with randomly altered letters to hamper character recognition technology. The PineApp Mail-SeCure appliance integrates five anti-virus engines--three signature based, one heuristic A method of problem solving using exploration and trial and error methods. Heuristic program design provides a framework for solving the problem in contrast with a fixed set of rules (algorithmic) that cannot vary. 1. based and one zero-hour detection mechanism--along with eleven anti-spam engines. These include RPD RPD Rapid RPD Radiation Protection Dosimetry RPD Rapid Product Development RPD Rochester Police Department RPD Recurrent Pattern Detection (Commtouch anti-spam engine) RPD Relative Percent Difference RPD Removable Partial Denture along with Zombie A computer that has been covertly taken over in order to perform some nefarious task. It is estimated that millions of PCs around the world have been compromised and, under the control of a third party, routinely transmit messages unbeknownst to the user. detection, IP reputation, image spam defence, heuristic and Bayesian engines. When Mail-SeCure's advanced RPD engine is activated all incoming mail undergoes statistical and pattern detection analysis and is then blocked or tagged as spam. In addition to non targeted threats such as spam, viruses, worms and Trojan-horses, Mail-Secure protects against targeted threats including Mail-bombing, DoES and Backscatter backscatter in radiology, radiation deflected by scattering processes at angles greater than 90 degrees to the original direction of the beam of radiation. Important in radiotherapy when estimating surface exposure dose. . The fully scaleable system also provides administrators with a single-point three-tier management system that enforces advanced local policy and provides users with a mechanism to control and manage their mail flow. www.pineapp.com |
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