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McAfee Spam Killer
Features Vs Benefits
The McAfee Spam Killer is an add-on to the Security Shield software
that protects your server from spam, or unsolicited bulk email. It
uses six methods to detect and deny spam messages from being
delivered and also effectively protects you and your personal
details from the omnipresent threat of phishing emails. As with any
McAfee product updates are regular and accurate, protecting you from
the very latest threats quicker than many other products on the
market. This level of protection optimizes your server to ensure
that there is little or no server lag, and it ensures that you get
the most from your system and your employees.
Anti-Spam Protection Techniques
A lot of different applications have been introduced to the
anti-spam market. Each one seemingly has its own method of beating
junk email. Some rely on Bayesian filters; others rely solely on
blacklists and whitelists. McAfee takes it a step further by using
the following six techniques:
Integrity analysis
Content filtering
Heuristic detection
Blacklists and whitelists
Bayesian filtering
Self tuning
The Overall Benefit
The combination of these methods makes McAfee Spam Killer a highly
effective tool in the fight against spam. As it blocks more and more
spam messages, and as you blacklist new senders, the Bayesian filter
will pick up on your actions and learn from them marking similar
emails in the future as being spam or clean depending on your
actions.
Integrity Analysis Benefits
Integrity analysis studies a received email in depth. It looks at
many different characteristics to determine whether the email
appears to be from a spammer or if it contains spam. This technique
offers the benefit that even the most innocent looking emails can be
quickly established as unwanted and subsequently be rejected.
Content Filtering Benefits
Content filtering is one of the most popular forms of blocking spam
emails. McAfee Spam Killer looks for known spam keywords and also
studies the images found within emails. Anything that looks to be
spam related is flagged. Content filtering is particularly effective
in the fight against mass emailers and junk emailers.
Heuristic Detection Benefits
Heuristic detection is similar to integrity analysis but uses
different heuristic rules. Spam Killer looks at header details as
well as the senders IP address and other factors. One of the
biggest benefits of heuristic detection is that it can ignore any
internal emails from within your organization.
The Benefits Of Blacklists And Whitelists
Blacklists and whitelists are an excellent way of ensuring that you
can block emails from known spammers while ensuring that personal
emails and emails from contacts can be delivered. The Spam Killer
lists are easy to manage and maintain providing you with a superb
level of protection.
The Advantages Of Bayesian Filtering
Bayesian filtering enables Spam Killer to learn from your actions.
As messages arrive they are either flagged as spam or non-spam
emails by Spam Killer. You are then given the option to check these
decisions and alter them accordingly. The Bayesian filter will note
certain aspects of the email including keywords and header details.
Over time the filter will be able to determine whether any incoming
mail is spam or not. A Bayesian filter like this adds a huge amount
of automation and protection to the entire process saving you both
time and effort.
Self Tuning Uses
The self-tuning aspect of Spam Killer lets you manage the level of
spam blocking. Some organizations naturally receive emails that
contain apparent spam keywords, but these emails are genuine.
Self-tuning lets you change every aspect of the spam filters. This,
in turn, ensures that you block spam emails without blocking
essential or mission critical emails.
McAfee Spam Killer
Spam Killer from McAfee uses multiple filtering and blocking
techniques to ensure your complete privacy. The phishing filter also
works in a similar way to the heuristic spam filter to protect you
from phishing scams. Spam Killer can save you or your business
money, time, and fraudulent personal identity theft.
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