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Next-gen BitDefender solution adds heuristic spam filters
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By Roxana Danaila
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BitDefender 8 SpamDeny, the new antispam solution for Windowsworkstations launched today is an advanced email protection toolwhich features updated, as well as new filters. ¡°I¡¯m verysatisfied with how this version has turned out, because internaltesting has shown an improvement of over 35% in detection rates,over the previous version. I would like to take this opportunityto thank all our users and testers, as we wouldn¡¯t have had sucha great product without their hard work, input and feedback,¡±said Nicolae Simon, BitDefender Product Marketing Manager.
The new rules of the updated Heuristic filter will dutifullytrash some new scam spam types, such as Nigerian scams, onlinecasino scams, lottery scams and fake university diploma offers,while further reducing the number of false positives.
Additionally, new filters have been included, such as the Imagefilter, which is able to recognize and tag images frequentlyused in spam e-mail, the URL filter which blocks mail containing"sneaky" links, and the Charset filter, which will block anye-mail written in "strange" characters.
Various bells and whistles, such as configuration wizards,better ways to manage your friends list, and a handy fix thatwill disable incoming mail notifications for spam e-mail, sothat Outlook will only signal when legitimate e-mail arrives,complete the package.
The product is available for evaluation and purchasing as oftoday, and is priced at USD 19.95 for a single user license.BitDefender AntiSpam 7.2 users can, obviously, upgrade toBitDefender 8 SpamDeny free of charge.
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