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166138
Sun, 03/06/2011 - 20:00
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Software developed to filter spam from incoming SMSes
New Delhi, Mar 6 (PTI) Tired of junk messages flooding
your cell phone inbox? Try SMSAssassin -- a software that
segregates spams from regular messages.
Being a cheap option to reach the masses, Short
Message Service(SMS) are being widely used by marketeers for
offering value added services and advertisement. However,
these spam messages is a problem for all mobile users because
the inbox gets full with advertising messages or even with
infected attachments.
Even the countermeasures offered by the government has
failed to stop spam SMSes.
According to available data, in India an estimate 100
million spam messages are sent every day. Companies dedicated
for SMS-based advertising solution have been launched and they
are able to reach to 1,00,000 people in about Rs 3,500.
"This is what inspired us to come up with
SMSAssassin," Ponnurangam Kumaraguru, assistant professor at
Indian Institute of Information Technology - Delhi, said.
"SMSAssasin performs the spam filtering automatically.
It is designed to run on mid-range phones wherein it filters
such spam messages and also gives user freedom to receive
SMSes which are spams but still useful to him or her," he
said.
Kumaraguru said a study conducted by his team of
researchers in IIIT-Delhi found that an SMS is a spam or not,
differed from person to person.
"Females mostly tagged message related to festivals
offers, beauty products, discount offers on food/goods etc as
spam; males mostly tagged messages related to sports,
businesses(opening of new shop etc), job, studies, social
gathering and recharge schemes related messages as spam.
Further, We have observed that most of food discount offers
were tagged as spam by males and females both," he said.
Since the spam SMS keywords and patterns keep on
changing, SMSAssassin uses crowd sourcing to keep itself
updated, he said, adding, "the software is currently designed
to run on Nokia’s Symbian operating system, but the team is
also developing versions for Google Android and Windows
Mobile."
your cell phone inbox? Try SMSAssassin -- a software that
segregates spams from regular messages.
Being a cheap option to reach the masses, Short
Message Service(SMS) are being widely used by marketeers for
offering value added services and advertisement. However,
these spam messages is a problem for all mobile users because
the inbox gets full with advertising messages or even with
infected attachments.
Even the countermeasures offered by the government has
failed to stop spam SMSes.
According to available data, in India an estimate 100
million spam messages are sent every day. Companies dedicated
for SMS-based advertising solution have been launched and they
are able to reach to 1,00,000 people in about Rs 3,500.
"This is what inspired us to come up with
SMSAssassin," Ponnurangam Kumaraguru, assistant professor at
Indian Institute of Information Technology - Delhi, said.
"SMSAssasin performs the spam filtering automatically.
It is designed to run on mid-range phones wherein it filters
such spam messages and also gives user freedom to receive
SMSes which are spams but still useful to him or her," he
said.
Kumaraguru said a study conducted by his team of
researchers in IIIT-Delhi found that an SMS is a spam or not,
differed from person to person.
"Females mostly tagged message related to festivals
offers, beauty products, discount offers on food/goods etc as
spam; males mostly tagged messages related to sports,
businesses(opening of new shop etc), job, studies, social
gathering and recharge schemes related messages as spam.
Further, We have observed that most of food discount offers
were tagged as spam by males and females both," he said.
Since the spam SMS keywords and patterns keep on
changing, SMSAssassin uses crowd sourcing to keep itself
updated, he said, adding, "the software is currently designed
to run on Nokia’s Symbian operating system, but the team is
also developing versions for Google Android and Windows
Mobile."
