How does SpamX detect spam without using lists?
SpamX uses several proprietary methods of analysis developed and tested over a long period of time that allow it to detect spam without using lists, contextual rules or individual “fingerprints”. Naturally we are reluctant to discuss the specifics of the detection process lest we give what we have so painstakingly worked on directly to the spammers. This is a war we’re fighting, here, and one does not make the egregious error of disclosing the innermost workings of their defense system directly to the enemy so they can more easily find ways to compromise its effectiveness. Here’s what SpamX doesn’t do: Spammers change their email addresses, subject lines and text of their messages as often as they send out spam so gathering lists of spammer email addresses, ISPs and generating content-based rules is an interesting pastime with no real value. Setting up “spamtraps” to supposedly “fingerprint” individual spam is also fruitless since spammers send out spam in batches of hundreds of thousa
