Spam is no more garbage but risk as it includes virus attachments and spyware agents which make the recipients’ system ruined, therefore, there is an emerging need for spam detection. Many spam detection techniques based on machine learning algorithms have been proposed. As the amount of spam has been increased tremendously using bulk mailing tools, spam detection techniques should deal with it...

Email spam is a word that we come across in our daily life. The word spam means junk mails. The unsolicited emails that are received by any person in his/her mailbox are called spam. These junk mails are usually sent in bulk for advertising and marketing some products. This work presents a neural network approach to intrusion detection. A Multi-Layer Perceptron using Back Propagation Algorithm ...

In the fast-growing internet applications, email becomes more and more important in communication. SMTP attacks and spam have become one of the most serious problems. Particularly, the SMTP attacks and spam varies on email, for example spoofing address, illegal characters, sending in bulk, too many SMTP commands and so on. A single security technique is not enough to protect the system from the...

ARTICLE INFO Spam is one of the major issue especially email spam, of the todays Internet resulting in financial damage to companies and annoying the users and managing such kind of the mailbox has become a crucial one. These unwanted emails clogs the inbox as well as can be used for various attacks which may destroy user’s information or to reveal his/her identity or data. In this paper we hav...

Behavior-based Email Analysis with Application to Spam Detection

Now-a-days, mailbox management has become a big task. A large proportion of the emails we receive are spam. These unwanted emails clog the inbox and are very ubiquitous. Here, a new technique for spam detection is presented that makes use of clustering and association rules generated by the Apriori algorithm. Vector space notation is used to represent the emails. The results obtained from exper...

Generally a content based spam filter works on words and phrases of email text and if it finds offensive content it gives that email a numerical value (depending on the content). After crossing a certain threshold, that email may be considered as SPAM. This technique works well only if the offensive words are lexically correct. That means the words must be valid words with correct spelling. Oth...

Electronic mail, or email, is a method for com-municating using the internet which inexpensive, effective, and fast. Spam type of email where unwanted messages, usually commercial are distributed in large quantities by spammer. The objective such behavior to harm users; these messages need be detected prevented from being sent users first place. In order filter emails, developers have used mach...