Email Security Services

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DEFINITION: The KnujOn Project is an interactive Web-based spam reporting service. By working with the Internet community at large and focusing on shutting down the distribution points for spam, the KnujOn Project hopes to cut off spam at its source. Bob Bruen, Knujon's creator and developer, named the service to reflect its function: "KnujOn" is "no junk" spelled backwards.Knujon works by gathering and analyzing  … 
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EMAIL SECURITY SERVICES DEFINITION (continued): …  spam to determine its origin and points of distribution. The service solicits examples of spam from the public, providing individual users and business networks with software that reports incoming spam automatically. KnujOn runs the spam it receives through a process it calls the Policy Enforcement Engine. The Policy Enforcement Engine examines each instance of spam, filters by sending URL to determine origin, and analyzes the message to determine the best course of action. In some cases, KnujOn coordinates with ISPs (Internet service providers) to shut down offending Web servers. By eliminating … 
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