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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 27, 2012
Filed:
Jun. 17, 2004
David Cowings, El Cerrito, CA (US);
David Hoogstrate, San Francisco, CA (US);
Sandy Jensen, Berkeley, CA (US);
Art Medlar, Berkeley, CA (US);
Ken Schneider, San Francisco, CA (US);
David Cowings, El Cerrito, CA (US);
David Hoogstrate, San Francisco, CA (US);
Sandy Jensen, Berkeley, CA (US);
Art Medlar, Berkeley, CA (US);
Ken Schneider, San Francisco, CA (US);
Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for filtering spam messages utilizing a URL filtering module are described. In one embodiment, the method includes detecting, in an incoming message, data indicative of a URL and comparing the URL from the incoming message with URLs characterizing spam. The method further includes determining whether the incoming message is spam based on the comparison of the URL from the incoming message with the URLs characterizing spam.