Microsoft offers tech to keep spams away

Microsoft has announced that as part of its co-ordinated anti-spam effort,
its SmartScreen Technology will be deployed across Microsoft’s e-mail
platforms. Developed by Microsoft Research, early versions of SmartScreen
Technology have already been introduced in Outlook 2003, MSN 8 and Hotmail. It
will soon be available in a new add-on for Exchange Server 2003 called Microsoft
Exchange Intelligent Message Filter.

SMARTSCREEN TECHNOLOGY Introduced in Outlook 2003, MSN 8 and Hotmail To be soon available as an add-on for Exchange Server 2003

SmartScreen Technology is designed to provide the latest anti-spam filtering
innovations to products and tools that help protect corporate and private e-mail
users from the growing deluge of spam. It is based on a machine-learning
approach, where users decide whether an e-mail is a spam or not and then
incorporated into a feedback loop to train the filter to know what to look for.

With the Exchange Intelligent Message Filter, customers can score each
incoming e-mail message for spam probability according to these characteristics
and can use that score to help filter spam before it reaches the user’s inbox.

States Ryan Hamlin, GM, Anti-Spam Technology and Strategy group, Microsoft,
"The SmartScreen Technology is designed to help make spam detection easier
and to help maintain e-mail as a viable and valuable method of
communication."

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