1,009 Variations on Viagra! Revolutionary New Spam Filter Gets Top Award from WhichSpamFilter.com

MailMender -- a revolutionary new spam filter gets top award from a leading spam filter reviews web site after fending off 1,009 variations of the word Viagra". - MailMender introduces a clever new technology that automatically finds all variations of words commonly used by spammers, foiling all attempts by spammers to get past it.

(PRWEB) November 1, 2004 -- In an interesting recent study by the spam filter reviews site WhichSpamFilter.com (http://www.whichspamfilter.com) MailMender, the new spam filter from Savannah Software fended off 1,009 variations of the word that most often bombards our inboxes - Viagra". It was sent strange combinations ranging from V1@gra" to V|l|a|q|r@" in an attempt to get it past the filter.

Alan Hearnshaw, the owner of Savannah Software, a custom software company based in Savannah, Georgia, said: We invented the 'intelligent search method after more and more 'obfuscated messages started getting past regular spam filters and into our inbox. We were approached by WhichSpamFilter.com -- a website that conducts in-depth reviews of current and emerging anti-spam technology, and asked to take part in this test.

In the past, content-filtering spam filters have easily been fooled by the spammer spelling words incorrectly. We needed a technology which would not only see through these methods, but detect that they were being employed in the first place."

MailMender (http://www.mailmender.com) took 18 months to develop and is now available to the public.

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