Filtering Spam: Current Trends and Techniques

This article gives an overview about latest trend and techniques in spam filtering. We analyzed the problems which is introduced by spam ,what spam actually do and how to measure the spam .This article mainly focuses on automated, non-interactive filters, with a broad review ranging from commercial implementations to ideas confined to current research papers. The solutions using both machine and non –machine learning approaches are reviewed and taxonomy of different approaches is presented. While a range of different techniques have and continue to be evaluated in academic research, heuristic and Bayesian filtering, along with its variants provide the greatest potential for future spam prevention.