Firewall To Fry Spam

A firewall designed to eliminate spam has been developed at Queensland University. The researchers say it is the only true spam firewall in existence, and are chasing investors to help take the breakthrough system to market. Co-developer Matthew Sullivan, a specialist systems programmer, said the spam firewall relied on a statistical learning method, or Support Vector Machine, to categorise e-mails. It is the only anti-spam software that analyses emails as a whole picture rather than based on components, such as keywords or phrases