Effect of Spam Filter on SPOT Algorithm
Anamika, K. Padmini, Vinela Guduru, K. Sangeeta · 2015
Compromised machine is any computing resource whose availability, confidentiality, integrity has been negatively impacted either intentionally or unintentionally, by an untrusted source. These machines are often used to elevate various security attacks such as DDoS (attempt to make a machine resource unavailable to its intended users), spamming and identity theft (practice of using other person's name and personal information). The most important of these attacks are spamming wherein these machines are used to send large chunks of unsolicited mails called as spam. To detect these unwanted and unsolicited email and prevent them from getting into the user's inbox we use Spam filter. To detect the machine as compromised, SPOT algorithm has been designed. In this paper, we compare the effect of different types of spam filters on the SPOT algorithm on finding the compromised machines.