• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.401-407
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• 2015

The increase of image spam, a kind of spam in which the text message is embedded into attached image to defeat spam filtering technique, is a major problem of the current e-mail system. For nearly a decade, content based filtering using text classification or machine learning has been a major trend of anti-spam filtering system. Recently, spammers try to defeat anti-spam filter by many techniques. Text embedding into attached image is one of them. We proposed an ontology spam filters. However, the proposed system handles only text e-mail and the percentage of attached images is increasing sharply. The contribution of the paper is that we add image e-mail handling capability into the anti-spam filtering system keeping the advantages of the previous text based spam e-mail filtering system. Also, the proposed system gives a low false negative value, which means that user's valuable e-mail is rarely regarded as a spam e-mail.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2004.05a
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• pp.126-128
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• 2004

As e-mail is becoming increasingly important in every day life activity, mail users spend more and more time organizing and classifying the e-mails they receive into folder. Many existing recommendation systems or text classification are mostly focused on recommending the products for the commercial purposes or web documents. So this study aims to apply these application to e-mail more necessary to users. This paper suggests a dynamic recommendation agent system based on Rule Filtering Component recommending the relevant category to enable users directly to manage the optimum classification when a new e-mail is received as the effective method for E-Mail Management. Moreover we try to improve the accuracy as eliminating the limits of misclassification that can be key in classifying e-mails by category. While the existing Bayesian Learning Algorithm mostly uses the fixed threshold, we prove to improve the satisfaction of users as increasing the accuracy by changing the fixed threshold to the dynamic threshold. We designed main modules by rule filtering component for enhanced scalability and reusability of our system.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.129-137
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• 2008

In this paper, we propose an improved Bayesian Filtering mechanism to reduce the False Positives that occurs in the existing Bayesian Filtering mechanism. In the existing Bayesian Filtering mechanism, the same Bayesian Filtering DB trained at the e-mail server is applied to each e-mail user. Also, the training method using receiving e-mails only could not provide the high quality of ham DB. Due to these problems, the existing Bayesian Filtering mechanism can produce the False Positives which misclassify the ham e-mails into the spam e-mails. In the proposed mechanism, the sending e-mails of the user are treated as the high quality of ham information, and are trained to the Bayesian ham DB automatically. In addition, by providing a different Bayesian DB to each e-mail user respectively, more efficient e-mail filtering service is possible. Our experiments show the improvement of filtering accuracy by 3.13%, compared to the existing Bayesian Filtering mechanism.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.10B no.7
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• pp.853-862
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• 2003

Many more use e-mail purely on a personal basis and the pool of e-mail users is growing daily. Also, the amount of mails, which are transmitted in electronic commerce, is getting more and more. Because of its convenience, a mass of spam mails is flooding everyday. And yet automated techniques for learning to filter e-mail have yet to significantly affect the e-mail market. This paper suggests Web Mail Filtering Agent for Personalized Classification, which automatically manages mails adjusting to the user. It is based on web mail, which can be logged in any time, any place and has no limitation in any system. In case new mails are received, it first makes some personal rules in use of the result of observation ; and based on the personal rules, it automatically classifies the mails into categories according to the contents of mails and saves the classified mails in the relevant folders or deletes the unnecessary mails and spam mails. And, we applied Bayesian Algorithm using Dynamic Threshold for our system's accuracy.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.13B no.2 s.105
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• pp.163-170
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• 2006

With rapidly developing Internet applications, an e-mail has been considered as one of the most popular methods for exchanging information. The e-mail, however, has a serious problem that users ran receive a lot of unwanted e-mails, what we called, spam mails, which cause big problems economically as well as socially. In order to block and filter out the spam mails, many researchers and companies have performed many sorts of research on spam filtering. In general, users of e-mail have different criteria on deciding if an e-mail is spam or not. Furthermore, in e-mail client systems, users do different actions according to a spam mail or not. In this paper, we propose a mail filtering system using such user actions. The proposed system consists of two steps: One is an action inference step to draw user actions from an e-mail and the other is a mail classification step to decide if the e-mail is spam or not. All the two steps use incremental learning, of which an algorithm is IB2 of TiMBL. To evaluate the proposed system, we collect 12,000 mails of 12 persons. The accuracy is $81{\sim}93%$ according to each person. The proposed system outperforms, at about 14% on the average, a system that does not use any information about user actions.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2003.10a
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• pp.211-214
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• 2003

The problem of unsolicited e-mail has been increasing for years, so many researchers has studied about spam filtering and prevention. In this article, we proposed a faster spam prevention algorithm based on userID instead of full email address. But there are 2% of false-negatives by userID. In this case, we store those domains in a DB and filter them out. The proposed algorithm requires small DB and 3.7 times faster than the e-mail address comparison algorithm. We implemented this algorithm using SPRSW(Spam Prevention using Replay Secrete Words) to register userID automatically in userID DB.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2002.04a
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• pp.245-248
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• 2002

요즘 E-mail은 중요한 통신수단 중 하나로 사용되고 있다. 그러나 상당수의 E-mail 문서들이 상업성 광고 E-mail과 같은 불필요한 정보를 포함한 채 우리들의 컴퓨터에 분포되어 있다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위하여 각각의 E-mail 문서들의 내용을 판단함으로써 불필요한 문서들을 자동적으로 필터링 하는 방법을 제안하고자 한다. 전통적인 필터링 방법들은 단어의 빈도수와 같은 단일 속성만을 다루기 때문에 놀은 정확도를 얻을 수 없다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 각각의 사용자에 의해 이미 수신되어진 E-mail 문서들로부터 Personal Profile을 만들고, 이 Personal Profile를 사용함으로써 새로운 E-mail 문서가 사용자에게 중요한지의 여부를 구별하여 주는 방법에 관하여 제안하고자 한다. 이러한 Profile은 E-mail 문서의 송신자, 테마, 유형과 같은 다중 속성 값으로 구성되어 있다. 실험결과로부터 본 논문에서 제안하는 방법이 전통적인 방법보다 더 나은 정확성을 보이고 있음을 알 수 있다.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.34 no.1
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• pp.30-39
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• 2007

The existing content-based spam mail filtering algorithms have difficulties in filtering spam mails when e-mails contain images but little text. In this thesis we propose an efficient spam mail classification algorithm that utilizes the link structure of e-mails. We compute the number of hyperlinks in an e-mail and the in-link frequencies of the web pages hyperlinked in the e-mail. Using these two features we classify spam mails and legitimate mails based on the decision tree trained for spam mail classification. We also suggest a hybrid system combining three different algorithms by majority voting: the link structure analysis algorithm, a modified link structure analysis algorithm, in which only the host part of the hyperlinked pages of an e-mail is used for link structure analysis, and the content-based method using SVM (support vector machines). The experimental results show that the link structure analysis algorithm slightly outperforms the existing content-based method with the accuracy of 94.8%. Moreover, the hybrid system achieves the accuracy of 97.0%, which is a significant performance improvement over the existing method.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.31 no.8
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• pp.1092-1100
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• 2004

An E-mails have regarded as one of the most popular methods for exchanging information because of easy usage and low cost. Meanwhile, exponentially growing unwanted mails in user's mailbox have been raised as main problem. Recognizing this issue, Korean government established a law in order to prevent e-mail abuse. In this paper we suggest hybrid spam mail filtering system using weighted Bayesian classifier which is extended from naive Bayesian classifier by adding the concept of preprocessing and intelligent agents. This system can classify spam mails automatically by using training data without manual definition of message rules. Particularly, we improved filtering efficiency by imposing weight on some character by feature extraction from spam mails. Finally, we show efficiency comparison among four cases - naive Bayesian, weighting on e-mail header, weighting on HTML tags, weighting on hyperlinks and combining all of four cases. As compared with naive Bayesian classifier, the proposed system obtained 5.7% decreased precision, while the recall and F-measure of this system increased by 33.3% and 31.2%, respectively.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.64-71
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• 2006

Electronic mail (E-mail) is an integral part of communication for the recent Internet users. However, e-mail has also come to serve as a means to support flood of unwanted spam mails and junk mails having bad purposes. This paper was conducted in order to develop an intelligent e-mail system using user behavior pattern that can prevent these unnecessary information and enable the user to enjoy communication via e-mail in a cleaner environment. The concentrated analysis of the user behavior in terms of using e-mail functions has resulted in better classification between unnecessary and necessary information, thereby facilitating faster disposal of spam mails.