How naive bayesian classifier can be made ineffective

March 14th, 2005 I receive daily several thousands of spam emails on debt consolidation, mortgage and on organ enhancement advice/pills for organs I do not possess. I have been offered millions by unknown Nigerians, offered services I do not care about, images which were bad enough to spoil my day! I manage to filter most of them daily using SpamBayes, a naive bayesian filter integrated closely with Outlook.

July 28th, 2004 For quite sometime naive bayesian classifier based SPAMBayes filtered my emails very accurately with very few false positives. Recently however I have noticed few trends in spamming which are alarming in nature.

July 17th, 2006 The Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics is a partner in the Integrated Research Project BACS (Bayesian Approach to Cognitive Systems) where researchers are investigating the extent to which Bayes' theorem can be used in artificial systems capable of managing complex tasks in a real world environment. Computer's and hence robots today fail miserably with incomplete and/or imprecise knowledge.

March 3rd, 2005 A recent trend in spamming observed in Larry Seltzer's blog and elsewhere is to use very small font size characters to create an ascii art to provide spam messages. What is interesting is that unlike the example above spammers can use legitimate email messages chosen randomly from computers they have hacked to create the ascii art.

February 6th, 2006 This is a short list of highly recommended free softwares for total protection of your Windows PC (Computers with Windows Operating System). It protects you from Spyware, Adware, Malware, Virus, Trojans, Spam etc.

April 13th, 2005 I have heard that Python is a great programming language which is so much superior to everything around etc. The following code in python is touted as the world's smallest p2p client & server.

July 24th, 2006 As part of the settlement in the click-fraud case - Lane’s Gifts v. Google, Google had agreed to have an independent expert examine click-fraud detection methods, policies, practices, and procedures and make a determination of whether or not Google have implemented reasonable measures to protect their advertisers.

March 30th, 2007 I have just started downloading my email and guess what - I have 4538 email messages in queue, most of them obviously spam as even Bill Gates isn't that popular. Unfortunately my new stopgap setup doesn't have a bayesian filter setup so I will have to filter them manually.

December 20th, 2007 Akismet continues to get in spams approved these days while sometimes rejecting valid comments on my blog. To give you a small sample, here are some of the comments which passed through Akismet plugin today - Note: Adult stuff ahead...

October 24th, 2005 Wired News reports about a company which bans all sites containing the word "blog" in a juvenile attempt to prevent employees from accessing blogs. A Google search shows about 42 million pages containing the word blog in url.

August 27th, 2005 That is the conclusion of a team of medical researchers in Britain and Switzerland, who reviewed a mountain of published evidence. They compared 110 trials of homeopathic remedies against a placebo with 110 trials of conventional medicines, which were also tested against placebos.

April 29th, 2006 In an interesting move Microsoft decided to turn off outbound filtering of inbuilt Firewall in Vista by default. Outbound filtering for applications will configurable by enterprise administrators through Group Policy.

June 29th, 2009 SYDNEY - Parents need not worry if their teens are into social networking sites - they are savvy enough to minimize risks for themselves, according to a recent study. Kerry Mallan, of Queensland University of Technology (QUT) and colleagues who interviewed 170 students, found that teens who spend time on social networking sites are savvier than thought.

February 17th, 2007 Traditionally companies choose Windows as their desktop environment and often for their intranet servers too. Windows is generally perceived as being easier to use and administer and mostly with good reason.

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