SpamBayes for World of Warcraft

SpamBayes for Warhammer is now Online!


A lightweight, transparent and innovating antispam for World of Warcraft

  • Hides and automatic reports of gold spammers
  • Unlike most pattern matching antispams, the user won't need X plugin update to stop Z spam, spambayes cuts lines in words, removes obfuscations, calculate a probability from 0% to 100% the message is a ham (safe) or a spam (harassement)
  • The plugin core, the bayesian algorythm is the exact conversion of SpamBayes Python a combination of work from Gary Robinson, Tim Peters and many contributers since 2002, SpamBayes Python is currently maintained by Skip Montanaro and Mark Hammond, two python rockstars
  • Where the others fail to be compatible with all the languages of the spams, this is not a problem for SpamBayes, it adapt to your language
  • The users are teachers free to learn it to hide anything else like the bastards spamming for guilds all day long
  • Transparent, the control center returns all the received messages
  • The in-game ignore list is not used, for spambayes identity does not matter, only what is sent is important
  • Catch many forms of spams with just a few trainings, intelligent classications, rare false positives
  • Classify as ham / spam or unsure using a powerful algorithm to calculate probabilities in a range from 0 to 1
  • Supports trainings, users are able to teach SpamBayes on the fly
  • Uses a global database for all characters
  • Yet starts with a blank database as SpamBayes Python, but support for an "official" database is technically possible
  • Supports all "spammable" channels with a priority on being light in performance
  • Supports all languages and is Cataclysm ready
  • Backup/Restore a database with the file \WTF\Account\[username]\SavedVariables\SpamBayes.lua
  • OPTIONAL: a demonstration database to start using the plugin with 21 spams and 35 hams trained with over 600 spams and 3500 hams caught is download-able here (trained on English, French and a few German phrases, gold spams only)

Usages:
Type /spambayes or /sb to bring on the control center (or click the button with Broker bars)

Helps/Tips:
Hit the Help button in-game, use comments, or use the forum threads listed below

Bugs/Suggestions:
Must be reported in a Curseforge ticket, comments won't be considered for these types of requests
And remember to post as much informations possible

Links/References:
[*] It uses the algorithm of SpamBayes Python, a combination of work from Gary Robinson, Tim Peters and many contributers since 2002, SpamBayes Python is currently maintained by Skip Montanaro and Mark Hammond
[*] ThunderBayesPP an easy integration of SpamBayes Python in Thunderbird3 (Windows/Linux/OSX) currently maintained by me
[*] What does bayesian spam filtering means
[*] (en) forum thread at Bioware
[*] (en) forum thread at WarhammerAlliance
[*] (en) forum thread at CurseForge/WoWAce
[*] (fr) forum thread at JeuxOnline

tags: spam filter antispam anti scam fishing report spammers gold powerleveling stop catch gold guild

Facts

Date created
Oct 11, 2010
Categories
Last update
Aug 14, 2011
Development stage
Release
Language
  • enUS
License
GNU General Public License version 3 (GPLv3)
Curse link
SpamBayes for World of Warcraft
Downloads
2,882
Recent files
  • R: 40200.30 for 4.2 Aug 14, 2011
  • A: r30 for 4.2 Aug 14, 2011
  • A: r29 for 4.2 Aug 12, 2011
  • R: 40200.27 for 4.2 Jun 29, 2011
  • A: r27 for 4.2 Jun 29, 2011

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