14 DAY TRIAL // The French authorities prepare a new solution that seems to be the most revolutionary anti-spam project ever created. The upcoming product, codenamed the Signal Spam, brings together the country's authorities such as the police or the justice ministry and big corporations like Microsoft. Basically, the project will be based on a simple but efficient system: all the users can report spam messages through a plugin supported by Outlook or Thunderbird and a web-based interface created by the alliance of the organization. Then, the messages are hosted and analyzed to be blacklisted and blocked through the French ISPs.
"In this way you contribute to enabling public authorities as well as internet users who suggest or reveal solutions against spammers, to fight them according to their respective skills," it is mentioned in the description of the project. According to Virus Bulletin, the project is available only to French users because only the country's ISPs will be able to block the reported email spammers.
"The project focuses on protecting French citizens from spamming, and only ISPs based in France will be warned if spam or botnet-like activity is spotted coming from their systems. Development of the database systems used to store the spams and to extract useful metadata from them was led by anti-spam guru, and regular VB Spam Bulletin contributor, John Graham-Cumming," the publication sustained.
The spam messages are surely a problem for all users, because a considerable amount of unwanted emails are sent to our inboxes every day. Until now, the security companies struggled to develop powerful solutions to block the spam messages but we're still unable to use a 100 percent efficient application. However, you can protect your computer by refusing to open untrusted and unsolicited email messages as well as by marking them as spam.