Evaluation of spam detection and prevention frameworks for email and image spam-a state of art

Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications and Services, iiWAS 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 520-527

  Hayati, Pedram ^a   Potdar, Vidyasagar ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Image spam; Spam email spam

Indexed keywords

E-MAIL SPAM; FUTURE RESEARCH DIRECTIONS; IMAGE SPAM; QUALITY OF INFORMATION; SPAM DETECTION; SPAM EMAIL SPAM; WEB USERS;

ELECTRONIC MAIL; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; SEARCH ENGINES; SPAMMING; WEB SERVICES;

INTERNET;

EID: 70349135418     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1497308.1497402     Document Type: Conference Paper

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