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blacklist
(1) A list of e-mail addresses or domains of known spammers. See spam, spam filter, Blacklist of Internet Advertisers, greylisting and blackholing. Contrast with whitelist.

(2) A list of Web sites that are considered off limits or dangerous. A Web site can be placed on a blacklist because it is a fraudulent operation or because it exploits browser vulnerabilities to send spyware and other unwanted software to the user. Contrast with whitelist.


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“First, without proper investigation, they may end up on a blocklist and prevent users from accessing their services," he said.
To ensure that blocklists are kept current and legally compliant, it offers automatic daily updates from the Internet Watch Foundation and screens the actual content and construction of Web pages in detail, detecting and blocking objectionable material, dangerous hidden content and proxy sites.
0 features improved algorithms used for the parsing of HTML objects in mail messages; improved analysis of graphic attachments; an extended and improved mechanism for analysing message headers; and new filtering technologies, including the Sender Policy Framework (SPF) and Spam URL Realtime Blocklists (SURBL), the company said.
 
 
 
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