Finally Someone is Working to Stop Image Spam.
As I’m sure everyone on the Internet is aware, image spam is the latest avenue used by spammers. This type of advertisement uses images instead of words to get the message across. I’m not sure who would buy something that was advertised in some random email that contained oddly worded and oddly formatted pictures but apparently people are.
This type of spam isn’t a problem for me, I just delete it. But more and more often it gets through my spam filters and that is really annoying. I get enough email in a day, I don’t need to spend the extra time looking at spam images. Enter the MXtreme from Bordersoft. This nifty piece of software is used to stop image spam. A wonderful idea! How does it work?
Most spam filters run the image through a program that uses Optical Character Recognition or OCR. Many people are familiar with OCR already - it comes with your scanner so that you can scan a text document and edit using Word or some other word processing program. Anyway, the spam filter will run the image through on OCR program and then run the extracted text through the spam filter. If the words in the image match commonly used spam words, then the email is flagged. This is a great idea except many spammers are now using “captcha” like words to fool the OCR software. The MXtreme isn’t fooled because they invented something called “Intercept™ Image Analysis” which is a new technique to extract and filter the text included in these images.
I think you should check out this software. I’m a software developer and I had been working on my own solution, but I may just look into this!
This post is a paid advertisement for MXtreme which is used to stop image spam.
