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Date of Patent:
Nov. 09, 2010

Filed:

May. 13, 2004
Applicants:

Matt Gleeson, San Francisco, CA (US);

David Hoogstrate, San Francisco, CA (US);

Sandy Jensen, Berkely, CA (US);

Eli Mantel, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Art Medlar, Berkeley, CA (US);

Ken Schneider, San Francisco, CA (US);

Inventors:

Matt Gleeson, San Francisco, CA (US);

David Hoogstrate, San Francisco, CA (US);

Sandy Jensen, Berkely, CA (US);

Eli Mantel, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Art Medlar, Berkeley, CA (US);

Ken Schneider, San Francisco, CA (US);

Assignee:

Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A method and system for filtering email spam using email noise reduction are described. In one embodiment, the method includes detecting, in an email message, data indicative of noise added to the email message to avoid spam filtering. The method further includes modifying the content of the email message to reduce the noise, and comparing the modified content of the email message with the content of a spam message.


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