Microsoft has new weapon against Spam
Microsoft has come up with a new tool to contain spammers using search engines to direct net traffic to Spam sites. The tool, Strider Search Defender, detects spam URLs, usually passed on through social networking and forum and blog hosting websites, and prevents them from being indexed by search engines.
Yi-Min Wang, group manager of the cyber security and systems management research group at Microsoft Research, said the tool uses part of a technology developed in Microsoft Research to search forums that have been spammed and to identify spam URLs in the hope of removing them before they are indexed by search engines.
