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Evaluation of spam detection and prevention frameworks for email and image spam: a state of art

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Vidyasagar PotdarAuthors Info & Claims

iiWAS '08: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services

Pages 520 - 527

https://doi.org/10.1145/1497308.1497402

Published: 24 November 2008 Publication History

Abstract

In recent years, online spam has become a major problem for the sustainability of the Internet. Excessive amounts of spam are not only reducing the quality of information available on the Internet but also creating concern amongst search engines and web users. This paper aims to analyse existing works in two different categories of spam domains - email spam and mage spam to gain a deeper understanding of this problem. Future reserch directions are also presented in these spam domains.

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