[MBF]Re: huge increase in spam

[Pete McNeil]

On 2014-02-17 09:38, Carl Wagar wrote: Our filters are preventing it from getting through. I just worry that if the infection goes ‘exponential’ at what point do our servers stop being able to handle it. We have observed spam volumes peaking at rates not seen since 2008, and some ISP customers indicating problems with network saturation (that's not been seen in a while). We plan to be here for the long-haul, so rest assured there is always a team working on this - even if it does go exponential. We have just put a new piece of technology into Message Sniffer to help with the huge volumes. The "saccades" engine offers a potential 10 fold increase scanning efficiency. We expect that speed increase to also translate to faster GBUdb learning so that more connections can be shut down before they use bandwidth (on systems that can do that). I made an announcement about this on the sniffer community list I will cross post it here for those who might not be on that list: Hello Sniffer Folks, We are preparing to release a new version of the Message Sniffer engine that includes an exciting new technology. The "saccades engine" allows SNF to intelligently skip large portions of most messages without missing any important content. The engine borrows from MicroNeil's synthetic intelligence research relating to visual systems processing and essentially gives SNF a behavior similar to what we all do with our eyes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saccade The engine learns where matches are most likely to occur and then applies what it is learning in real-time. This allows SNF to rapidly identify messages of a type it has already seen without having to scan the entire contents. This has the potential to improve scanning efficiency by 90% or more. That is, scanning typical messages can happen with 1/10th the work for a 10x improvement in efficiency. Not kidding, we're actually seeing these results on some of our testbed servers! You may have seen me tweet about it: https://twitter.com/codedweller/status/434020178352148480 If you'd like to get in on the fun early and you are using SNFServer.exe then you can find a copy of the new engine at the following link: http://www.armresearch.com/message-sniffer/download/SNFServerV3.0.2-E3.1.0.zip To swap it in, * Download and unzip the new engine. * Stop your Message Sniffer. * Rename your SNFServer.exe to something like SNFServer.exe.bakup (always a good idea to keep a backup). * Rename the new engine to SNFServer.exe * Restart your Message Sniffer. Please let us know how this works for you. Best, _M -- Pete McNeil Chief Scientist ARM Research Labs, LLC www.armresearch.com 866-770-1044 x7010 twitter/codedweller ############################################################# This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list <community@mailsbestfriend.com>. To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <community-...@mailsbestfriend.com> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <community-dig...@mailsbestfriend.com> To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <community-in...@mailsbestfriend.com> Send administrative queries to <community-requ...@mailsbestfriend.com>