intercept network activity like VirusScan does

[wgcs]

I'd like to write a spam filtering program that intercepts emails as they are being downloaded.

I know a POP3 proxy mechanism could be used to do this, but I also know that VirusScan HAWK somehow monitors (and blocks) TCP/IP traffic without proxying: for example, if you have HAWK monitoring on when you send a second or third email with the same subject, HAWK pops up notifying you that an email that looks like spam is being sent.

(I use Eudora and am pretty sure that VirusScan hasn't hooked into it and is really intercepting TCP/IP traffic...)


Does anyone know how this can be accomplished?

- Bill

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[spruce009]

have you tried programs like Ihatespam? Also, the new version of Outlook offers it built in. If you are interested in writing a script, you could also dabble with CDO programming, but that gets very complicated, and may require a server to run the scripts.