Bayes strikes again…
Woohoo, my paper on using Bayesian Filtering to classify malware has been mentioned on no other than the ‘Looswire’ blog run by Jeremy Wagstaff. Jeremy, apart from having a very interesting blog is also a regular columnist for WSJ.
The paper was written for and presented at the Virus Bulletin 2004 international conference in Chicago, USA.
The tool he is discussing is POPfile a FREE anti-spam tool for all platforms that support PERL [for Windows you don\’t have to install PERL as it is all part of the Windows install package supplied].
It is very easy to set up and it learns very quickly. Why not give it a try?
The blog entry can be found here: How to Make More Use of the Vicar
The Vicar in question is Thomas Bayes, an 18th Century nonconformist minister who came up with a simple but very effective way to classify things using a simple theorem. If you want to know more then take a look at the paper.
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