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To block zero-hour spam and malware in real time, Aladdin eSafe 6 Feature Release 2 uses dual antispam engines to provide real-time content analysis/security. The first antispam engine performs sender […]

It's a pain in the neck and elsewhere to get hundreds of emails each day urging us to buy some new product that will cause us to instantantly lose weight, [...]

FOR Like the Volkswagen Beetle, image spam has been around a while, but has found a new and more powerful form. Highly randomized variants of image spam increased 10x in [...]

The war for control of corporate inboxes has been raging for some years now as anti-spam solution providers seek to protect us from unsolicited, inappropriate and often offensive intrusions into [...]

What is it? Microsoft Bulletin MS05-048 describes a vulnerability in the Collaboration Data Objects (CDO) component in Windows, used by applications such as Microsoft SQL Server, Exchange 2000, the IIS [...]

'Spear phishing' reached epidemic proportions in October, according to a study conducted by IT security firm Greenview Data. Spear fishing is an email spam technique used to gain access to [...]

Sophos has announced its membership of the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), the authorised UK Organisation that combats illegal interact content. As the number of computer users continues to rise, so […]

Because I am curious about who sends the spam I receive, I use the 'Better Whois' Web site to look up the domains from which it is sent. It is [...]

When someone who works for you sends an e-mail to everyone in your Outlook address book by entering each name in the 'To' window: you reach your recipients in one [...]

THE NEW SPAM: Just when you thought you knew the ins and outs of spam, along comes 'spim,' spam for IM. Increasingly, IM is a popular way for businesses to [...]

Does absolutely everyone know how to find me? Between handheld devices that fuse voice and text communications, broadband Internet access that promises no waiting, and wireless technologies that promise no […]

Washington DC: A three-month campaign to target Internet criminals has resulted in more than 150 arrests and convictions across the country. Attorney general John Ashcroft says people were seized on [...]

The CAN-SPAM law was a flaccid defense against unwanted e-mail, according to antispam company Commtouch, which analyzed hundreds of millions of spam messages in the first half of this year. [...]

As a native Minnesotan and son of a grocer, I grew up around Spam, the canned meat product produced in Austin, MN. However, I've only eaten it twice. The first [...]

Children receive over 70 spam emails a week, says new research from anti-spamming technology company KidsGuard. The report reveals that despite the new EU anti-spam directive, a child can still […]

Compliance of the CAN-SPAM act initially has been very low by most of the commercial e-mailers as per the results of a research conducted by Jupiter Research. One of the biggest obstacles to compliance was that of honoring unsubscribe requests through suppression tests.

'If anything, I have seen less in recent months, but I think that has more to do with us changing domain names and servers. Probably this is just a case [...]

An overwhelming majority of respondents to our latest QuickPoll--89 percent--reported that despite recent legislation to curb it, spare is still a significant problem for them, overtaxing school servers and inundating […]

Last year's EC clampdown on spam has had little impact on unwanted mail appearing in inboxes, while legitimate online operators are being caught in the spam-prevention net. The issue of […]

Spam: Can't live with it, can't completely choke it off. Legal efforts to stem the flow of bandwidth-gobbling junk e-mail proceed slowly. But the Federal Trade Commission and 36 agencies […]

The EU Directive on electronic communications came into force on 31 October and was an attempt to stop the seemingly unrelenting tide of unwanted and unsolicited messages flooding into our […]

SILLY ME! I ONCE THOUGHT THAT SPAM was merely a slimy substance usually found dogging in-boxes. Now I realize that a different but sometimes uglier form of this stuff can […]

A 2-cent tax levied on a e-mail sent may be the permanent solution to get rid of spammers, as the amount of tax that they would have to pay shall make them rethink their actions. The tax implementation would also probably put a stop to the numerous forwarded messages passed around to near and dear ones. Cleaning up of mailboxes shall become a fast affair, saving valuable work time.

THIS SUMMER, A RECORD NUMBER of computer viruses and spam messages clogged inboxes and hard drives around the world, culminating with the Sobig virus, a prank program that replicated itself [...]

Spamhaus, a spammer blacklisting body manages a continually updated database of the worst offenders. As there are a large number of spammers in the world, a spammer must send at least 50 million e-mails a day or just under 35,000 a minute to qualify for an entry into the Spamhaus list.

The scenario is all too familiar: A friend forwards a letter from a friend of a friend. The message begins, "This is not a hoax!" then tells a heart-rending tale […]

Do you have charming nieces, aged six to 12? I have several who I'd let you have. Take Sheri. She's the one who is already tagged to be a computer […]

Q: We recently received this from a major rail carrier: 'In our effort to streamline billing procedures and improve billing accuracy for our customers ... (we) will (henceforward) require active [...]

Spam seems to have joined The Weather' and The State of Public Transport' as one of the nation's favourite whinges. It's bad enough that you have to wait 45 minutes […]

To study spammers' "harvesting" habits, U.S. Federal Trade Commission investigators "seeded" 175 Web locations with 250 undercover e-mail addresses. Spare hit 86 percent of addresses posted to Web pages, 86 […]

'See the eight minute 31-inch horse cock video for free' ...'Sign up for the Teen Farm Game'... 'Innocent young teenies: free pics'. No, you haven't just entered a porn website, [...]

This morning, three-quarters of the UK's e-mail users delved into their in-boxes to find at least one spam message, with little idea as to how their details ended up in [...]

Q. Our company wants to begin a direct e-mail marketing campaign to promote a new service. We believe it would be faster, cheaper, and easier than direct mail. We are […]

The columnist finds little difference between spammers and marketing professionals.

The wireless industry should quickly address the issue of spam, or irresponsible companies such as Acacia National Mortgage are going to annoy wireless data users enough to make them turn […]