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City of Edmonton Eliminates Vulnerabilities With Comprehensive Antivirus and Anti-Spam Protection From Trend Micro
White Papers Edmonton secures its operations with comprehensive multi-layer security - including anti-spam, anti-phishing, anti-hacking and anti-spyware capabilities - from Trend Micro. Edmonton is Alberta's capital and Canada's fifth largest municipality with...
[August 3, 2006, 0:00]
Business email may escape spam crackdown
Talkback Legislation should also cover so-called Messenger ads, to which some spam has switched from e-mail. Most spam seems to originate in the USA. Of course commercial senders should be subject to the clampdown.
[July 29, 2003, 13:48]
TechNet Webcast: How Microsoft IT Implements Exchange 2003 Anti-Spam Technologies (Level 300)
White Papers Everyone likes to improve how one manages spam? This webcast presents how Microsoft does just that, providing an overview of anti-spam technology in Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 with Service Pack 2 (SP2) and how the Microsoft Information...
[February 7, 2006, 23:00]
AOL redefines spam
News America Online has released a revision of its terms of service agreement that expands its definition of spam beyond email to include messaging and chat postings. Perhaps the biggest change is AOL's redefinition of spam, up till now considered...
[July 9, 2003, 13:56]
A Guide to Centralized Spam and Virus Filtering
White Papers Spam and viruses constitute an enormous amount of mail on the Internet, wasting bandwidth and clogging the queues on defenseless mail servers. This paper explores the integration of Sendmail, MIMEDefang, ClamAV, SpamAssassin, and Vipul's Razor as a...
[November 1, 2006, 0:00]
Combating Spam: An Intelligent Approach to the Problem
White Papers Spam is email's worst foe. Research indicates that up to 90% of all email arriving in mailboxes is spam. Some people believe that one can't beat spam, and should just accept it as an unfortunate fact of life, like inflation.
[October 27, 2006, 1:00]
Gmail spam decreases
Blog Google has claimed that its spam filters are discouraging spammers, after a decline in attmepts to spam Gmail users. In a post on the Official Google Blog, Brad Taylor, Google "Spam Czar", claimed that:
[October 31, 2007, 14:45]
SendMail to adopt Cloudmark's anti-spam tech
News SendMail, whose technology shuttles nearly 60 percent of email on the Internet, has agreed to make Cloudmark's anti-spam filtering tools a centrepiece of its commercial mail-management software. It also sells a commercial version that includes...
[November 3, 2003, 11:10]
US anti-spam law nears reality
News The US Congress on Monday gave final approval to the first federal law regulating spam, which President Bush has indicated he will sign before the end of the year. The final version of the Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and...
[December 9, 2003, 8:35]
Mail Security: Protecting Your Email From Spam and Viruses
White Papers Spam and viruses coming through the email can result in data loss as well as lost employee productivity, potential legal liability, and an increased burden on resources and budget. In the first 6 months of 2005, small businesses were the 2nd most...
[November 27, 2009, 23:00]
Spam: Together, we can fight it
Talkback The tools to kill spam already exist. If most ISP's and other main connection centers would mandatory install spam filters of their own choice for all inbound and outbound traffic spam would be killed within the year.
[September 15, 2005, 21:40]
Government 'too busy' to deal with spam
Talkback One of the biggest problems is that of jurisdiction, the government has no control over the majority of spam as it originates from outside the UK.often from China or Russia. For these spammers the only control the government could possibly have...
[September 14, 2005, 9:12]
SMS Spam and Fraud Prevention
White Papers The growing volume of spam can threaten this revenue by provoking subscribers to churn. Furthermore, some of that spam is sent from fraudulent addresses, causing inaccurate billing for subscribers and revenue forfeiture for the mobile operator...
[October 9, 2009, 2:08]
Microsoft enforces its anti-spam tech
Talkback Before enforcing this policy, perhaps Microsoft would like to do somthing about the huge amount of spam that purports to come from hotmail addresses.
[June 23, 2005, 16:47]
Sobig blamed for fourfold rise in spam
News The amount of spam moving around the Internet has increased from one spam in every eleven emails at the end of 2002 to one spam in every 2.5 emails today; a more than fourfold increase. Before Sobig.F, spam made up less than half of all email...
[December 9, 2003, 9:40]
Internet marketeer faces spam charges
Talkback The present system of spam mails and unsolicited mails is a gold mine for the advertisers and an illegal nuisance and privacy violation for the end user. The spam laws of various countries must be amended suitably to accommodate these nuisances and...
[June 23, 2005, 16:46]
Outlook 2003 fights the spam battle
Talkback I shared your optimism about an inbuilt spam filter in Outlook 2003 but unfortunately it is almost completely ineffective. Marking messages as spam is difficult (no menu button/right click menu only allows marking a single message as spam NOT...
[January 26, 2004, 9:44]
Spam: Out of the frying pan, into the fire
News Spam-maker sues SpamArrest California juggles anti-spam bills Business email may escape spam crackdown Wed 02 July: The government's new anti-spam measures may leave corporate email addresses out of the loop, giving junk emailers free rein
[July 4, 2003, 11:01]
ISP promises to stop spam
Talkback It's about time we got tough on the SOURCE of spam, rather then trying to block it at the receiving end. Good on you FreedomSurf!
[August 21, 2003, 12:30]
Talkback spam
Talkback Basically, we balance ease of commenting and openness in registration against the risk of spam. Isn't it frustrating? I totally agree. Typically, it appears that the comment spammers we see have gone through the whole registration process before...
[July 12, 2008, 22:01]
