Targeting spam control on middleboxes: spam detection based on layer-3 e-mail content classification

• Main Authors: Marsono, Muhammad N., El-Kharashi, M. Watheq, Gebali, Fayez
• Format: Article
• Published: Elsevier BV 2009
• Subjects: TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
• Online Access: http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/13128/; http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.comnet.2008.11.012

This paper proposes a spam detection technique, at the packet level (layer 3), based on classification of e-mail contents. Our proposal targets spam control implementations on middleboxes. E-mails are first pre-classified (pre-detected) for spam on a per-packet basis. without the need for reassembly...