Agnitum unleashes new Spam Terrier 2.0

In the previous blog posting we mentioned the upcoming Spam Terrier 2.0, and this information was true.

You can download the new Spam Terrier, still free, and now compatible with Vista mail, The Bat! and 64-bit clients from our web-site.

Spam Terrier offers a user-friendly interface and easy customization to help users get started with teaching the software their personal definition of spam. Then the self-learning engine, based on Bayesian principles, takes over, ensuring significantly fewer false positives and misjudged messages.

Spam Terrier is ‘behavior’-driven rather than the more typical criteria-driven approach of other anti-spam products. In other words: users can select what they consider spam and teach the product to recognize the specific behavior patterns of junk mail.

The more you train Agnitum Spam Terrier, the better its nose for inappropriate mail. This is achieved through a system of “spam scores”, which classify a message as “not spam”, “probable spam” or “definite spam”. Users can alter the principles for such classification in order to adjust the software’s level of tolerance for different types of message. But however “tolerant” the application may be, it will never let unwelcome guests in – Spam Terrier is constantly scanning new mail in search of fresh spam samples.

New support for The Bat!

After installing Spam Terrier, the user’s The Bat! window will display two basic commands -"mark as spam" and "mark as non-spam", as well as the black/whitelist menu. These tools will help The Bat! users to easily define benign and malicious messages.

New support for 64-bit Microsoft email clients

Spam Terrier 2.0 now supports all 64-bit email programs from Microsoft: Outlook, Outlook Express and Windows Mail.

More effective filtering algorithm

By creating a structure of specific libraries of email samples, managing current statistics and archiving obsolete knowledgebase data, Spam Terrier 2.0 enables more accurate decision-making.

Automatic base tuning

In the majority of cases, the user’s mailbox contains an unequal mixture of spam and legitimate messages. To avoid this bias impacting the engine’s learning efficiency, Spam Terrier 2.0 references an internal sample base in order to tune itself to provide greater accuracy moving forward.

Spam awareness evolves over time

As spam evolves, the product’s knowledgebase will ensure Spam Terrier 2.0 keeps pace with the changes. Spam Terrier also performs its own analysis of “new” and “odd” spam samples to extend and update the database.

Spam Terrier 2.0 can be downloaded from the Agnitum website at http://www.agnitum.com/products/spam-terrier/index.php.

Alexey Belkin,

Chief Software Architect, Agnitum