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Article: McAfee SpamKiller Makes 'Intelligent' Decisions About Email With Bayesian Filtering; Network Associates Enhances McAfee SpamKiller With Bayesian Filtering Functionality.
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- PR Newswire
- Article date:
- April 12, 2004
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Network Associates, Inc. , the leader in intrusion prevention solutions, today announced that it has incorporated powerful new Bayesian filtering into the latest McAfee(R) SpamAssassin(TM) engine. With the new Bayesian filtering functionality, McAfee(R) SpamKiller(R) for Mail Servers and McAfee SpamKiller appliances will have the ability to make "intelligent" decisions about the email messages customers receive, helping to eliminate the unwanted problem of spam.
Bayesian filtering is based on statistical methods that give a probability for an email belonging to a given class, such as "spam" and "not-spam." Bayesian auto-learning functionality automatically learns ...