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Last November, I posted about how spammers are coming up with new spamming ideas, one of which is using images instead of just plain text to get through spam filters. Until now, my only solution is to teach Mozilla Thunderbird’s Junk mail filter which is spam and which is not. After a few weeks of teaching Thunderbird, it appears to be learning and getting smarter though a few other image spams still come through.

Now, I think there is a better solution to stop image spam and that’s through the use of Borderware MXtreme which is basically an email firewall application. It uses some sort of algorithm to determine which emails contain image spam and which emails are good. They do claim to capture 98% of all image spam. I would say that this is cool.

Would I give it a try? I might just do so. But even if I don’t try it, I think it’s a good solution to a relatively new problem. And oh, they do offer free trial.

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