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Security news and products; Trend Micro successful in anti-spam test.


Trend Micro Incorporated have announced that in a recent independent anti-spam benchmark test, multi-tiered anti-spam from Trend Micro achieved the highest catch rate of 97.36 percent and a competitive low false positive rate when compared to several popular anti-spam solutions. The anti-spam tests were conducted by an independent testing agency, Opus One Opus One may refer to:
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, and the vendor solutions tested included anti-spam engines as well as reputation services if provided by the vendor.

Opus One tested the Trend Micro anti-spam composite engine and Trend Micro Email Reputation. The robust anti-spam engine integrates multiple anti-spam techniques to stop threats before they reach the inbox. Patent-pending 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.  detection technology, embedded Inserted into. See embedded system.  URL URL
 in full Uniform Resource Locator

Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program.
 reputation, and other cutting-edge approaches protect against emerging spam attacks. Keeping these threats out of the inbox increases employee productivity and safeguards employees from falling victim to spam threats blended with malware and phishing Pronounced "fishing," it is a scam to steal valuable information such as credit card and social security numbers, user IDs and passwords. Also known as "brand spoofing," an official-looking e-mail is sent to potential victims pretending to be from their ISP, bank or retail establishment. .

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Title Annotation:SOFTWARE WORLD DIGEST
Publication:Software World
Date:May 1, 2007
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