AntiSpam Glossary

Adware

Adware or advertising-supported software is any software package which automatically plays, displays, or downloads advertising material to a computer after the software is installed on it or while the application is being used...[more]

Bayesian Analyses

Problem analysis for decision-making in which semi-subjective probabilities are assigned to uncertainties so that they can be analyzed as risk and refined with experience...[more]

Blacklist

As regarding spam, blacklists are lists of known spammers, their IP addresses, and/or their ISP (Internet Service Provider)...[more]

Content filtering

Anti-Spam software can block unwanted attachments including file types, mime types and renamed files...[more]

Gateway

A gateway is a network point that acts as an entrance to another network...[more]

LDAP

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol. A protocol used to accessing information directories such as addresses, phone numbers...[more]

Malware

Malware is slang for malicious software. Malware is software designed specifically to disrupt a computer system...[more]

Phishing

“Phishing” is a form of Internet fraud that aims to steal valuable information such as credit cards, social security numbers, user IDs and passwords...[more]

Quarantine

The Spam Quarantine is where messages classified as spam are held for delivery until they are released by you.[more]

RBL

RBL is an abbreviation for "Real-time Blackhole List". As mentioned below, "RBL" was the name of the first system to use this technology...[more]

Spam

"SPAM" mail is the practice of sending massive amounts of e-mail promotions or advertisements (and scams) to people that have not asked for it...[more]

Spam digest

The digest lists all e-mail messages that were quarantined in the past 24 hours...[more]

Spyware

Any software that covertly gathers user information through the user's Internet connection without his or her knowledge, usually for advertising purposes...[more]

SSH (Secure Shell)

Secure Shell or SSH is a network protocol that allows data to be exchanged over a secure channel between two computers...[more]

SURBL

SURBLs are lists of Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) hosts, typically web site domains, that have been observed in unsolicited messages...[more]

Trojan

“Trojan horse”; a reference to the story of the Trojan War, a piece of malware (such as a virus program) contained within a legitimate program...[more]

Virus

Self-replicating, malicious code that attaches itself to an application program or other executable system component and leaves no obvious signs of its presence...[more]

VMware

VMware is the world’s leading provider of virtualization solutions and services. Through a pioneering virtualization approach...[more]

Whitelist

The opposite of a blacklist. That is, instead of being an explicit list of senders from whom email will not be accepted or delivered...[more]