My software & programming page!

Introduction

Hello fans! Here are a couple of utilities which I hope you find useful. I'm not a professional programmer, but I got the bug early and still like to prop up a keyboard now and then. These are the fruits of my labour, absolutley gratis of course and distributed under the GNU General Public Licence.

Yet Another Hotmail Spam Killer

Or, Yet Another Hotmail Anti-Spam Util. Requires Perl. Windows only at this time.

Right now this is a command-line utility, although it can be started from Explorer.

It takes your Hotmail address and password, encrypts the password (using a rather clever Assembler program) and stores them in the file CRYPTEXT.TXT. It then logs into your Hotmail account (obviously it does this first if CRYPTEXT.TXT exists) and checks it for spam. It's search algorithm compares terms stored in the file SPAMTERMS.TXT with the FROM, SUBJECT, and ATTACHMENT lines and counts the scores these terms have, which are also specified in the SPAMTERMS file:

1.0 rally
0.4 alert
0.3 ready
1.0 explosion
0.2 explo
0.2 insur
0.5 term

If the search term is found, score is incremented by the amount shown. If it is in capitals, or part of another word, the score is increased further. Other spam-like things such as capital letter / lower case letter interpolation are included, and the mail text is searched for some tell-tale signs as well.

If the total score is greater than 14, then the program decides that the item is spam and deletes it. If not, it marks the item as "unread" and moves on to the next one.

No warranty is given for this program; please read the COPYING.TXT file for details of the GPL.

Download!

 

Talkboard Spam Killer (PHP-BB)

Another CLI Perl program. This is the program that got me started in the fun business of killing spam. A friend of mine had a talkboard (now sadly defunct), called 2bristol.com, which was a victim of constant spamming; mods such as myself were tasked with eliminating the spam by hand. This seemed silly, so I wrote a program to do it for me, and the result was this program.

WARNING! Do not expect this program to work. If you want to actually use it, you can either modify it yourself or contact me, and I'll get it up and running for you. GNU license applies; you have to credit me, Andrew S Wade, as the original programmer.

Download!

Random Number Generator (Windows DLL)

MASM-Assembler. This program generates randoms and puts them in Excel.

Download the distro with source! (MASM-compatible)

Prime Number Generator (Windows DLL)

Written in MASM-Assembler. Tester - unstable. Generates prime numbers up to 2 bytes in length, puts them in Excel.

Download the distro with source! (MASM-compatible)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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The Programs:


Hotmail Spam Killer

Talkboard Spam Killer (for PhP BB)

Random Number Generator

Primes Generator