FTC Finally Realises That Spammers Lie
News The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) study, False Claims in Spam, which analysed 1,000 pieces of unsolicited commercial email gleaned from FTC databases and government officials' in-boxes, found that 66 percent of spam contains some type of...
[April 30, 2003, 10:48]
'Do-not-spam' May Not Pass Go
News A ruling in favour of the telemarketing industry that ratified its free-speech claims would bode poorly for a potential spam opt-out list, legal experts agreed. Even as the idea of a national do-not-spam registry gains traction among email users...
[July 30, 2003, 11:30]
Feds Go After Sars Spammers
News The FTC said it's found seven types of Sars-related spam in the in-box it's set up for people to report unwanted bulk email. Last week, it held a forum to discuss solutions to spam and fraudulent mail.
[May 12, 2003, 9:12]
US ISP Sues Mortgage Firm Over Spam
News The lawsuit, filed Monday in Skagit County Superior Court in Mount Vernon, is among the first to target a large company using Washington state's anti-spam law. A Washington state Internet service provider (ISP) has filed a $6 million (£3.7 million...
[May 21, 1999, 11:09]
Why Our Customers Say "Spam Is Dead"
White Papers 0Spam.Net has made what many believe to be impossible claims about spam detection rates, false positive levels, and the impenetrability against virus, phishing and spyware threats delivered via email.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Symantec Wins $3m From Infamous Spammer
News Although some of the conduct allegedly engaged in by Maryland Internet Marketing falls within the ambit of the Can-Spam Act, Symantec is a vigorous critic of the bill, claiming that it is unenforceable.
[December 24, 2003, 8:00]
Florida Launches $24m Spam Suits
News Like the federal Can-Spam Act, the Florida law prohibits the distribution of unsolicited commercial email that contains false or deceptive subject information, or that is sent from invalid email addresses.
[April 5, 2005, 9:45]
Junk Email: No Relief In Sight For The Spammed
News MessageLabs said it scanned 840 million email messages in April and found that 97 percent of spam is aimed at five countries: the US, the UK, Germany, Australia and Hong Kong. The US has the worst problem, with 83 percent of messages being...
[May 24, 2004, 15:45]
Symantec Throttles Automatic Virus-notification 'spam'
News Some users have been getting so frustrated at the high numbers of such emails that they have been dubbed "as annoying as spam", according to Greg Day, solutions architect at rival antivirus firm McAfee.
[May 17, 2004, 12:20]
Symantec Fixes Its Church Spyware Mistake
News We recognise that while spam filters may have blocked their response or we may have dropped the ball in the communication process, we have checked our systems and can still find no record. Symantec, though, claims the fix was made available the day...
[August 4, 2006, 14:50]
Anti-spyware Demo Revealed As Malware In Disguise
News Everyone's using each others technology, so the spyware guys will use spam tech to get out the spyware, which collects info for the spammers. A strain of malware disguised as anti-spyware has become the latest double-agent in multi-step...
[November 9, 2007, 8:09]
