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Microsoft takes spam fight to source
News Microsoft is bringing its anti-spam fight to the Asia-Pacific. Spam is fast becoming one of the most serious problems facing email users, accounting for more than 50 percent of all email traffic," said Peter Moore, Microsoft's chief technology...
[June 20, 2003, 15:37]
Microsoft anti-spam campaign 'hypocritical'
News In a 29 May interview published on the company's Web site, the general manager of Microsoft's antispam technology and strategy group, Ryan Hamlin, said the company had prioritised incoming spam over outbound spam.
[June 26, 2003, 14:42]
Microsoft adds spam filtering to MSN 8
News For the latest version of MSN 8, Microsoft is touting a new antispam algorithm that the company says will improve spam blocking. New additions to the service include a caching system that speeds Web page downloads and a revamped email box with a...
[June 4, 2003, 10:58]
Microsoft's anti-spam plan 'hijacked by zombies'
News One of Microsoft's plans to fight the spam epidemic is unlikely to adversely affect spammers or reduce the quantity of spam, according to security experts. Microsoft's chairman Bill Gates has been calling for the IT industry to work together and...
[June 4, 2004, 13:55]
Microsoft launches anti-spam court action in UK
News It also filed two suits in the United Kingdom, where the defendants are accused of illegally harvesting Microsoft email addresses for use in building spam mailing lists. Spam is a growing problem and it's a global problem," Brad Smith, senior vice...
[June 18, 2003, 8:54]
Microsoft launches anti-spam site
News Microsoft has debuted its MSN Postmaster Web site, which offers tools and services designed to combat spam. Postmaster is an online resource that offers tools to help ISPs, email service providers and legitimate bulk emailers combat junk email...
[May 27, 2005, 15:30]
Microsoft bankrupts the Spam King
News Scott Richter, self-confessed Spam King and one-time peddler of ladies' underwear, has filed for bankruptcy, with Microsoft cited as the main reason. The suit alleges that Richter, the world's third most prolific spammer according to anti-spam...
[March 30, 2005, 10:20]
Microsoft launches anti-spam suit
News Microsoft has launched a case against a German man believed to be the lynchpin of a spam gang. According to Microsoft's complaint, the company is part of a wider spam gang operating out of Ukraine and the US.
[June 21, 2005, 15:35]
Microsoft sues over IM spam, phishing
News Microsoft has filed a lawsuit accusing two companies of launching instant-messaging spam and phishing attacks that targeted users on its Live Messenger network. Microsoft says that the successful use of these tactics has let third parties obtain...
[July 17, 2009, 16:41]
Microsoft enforces its anti-spam tech
News According to Microsoft, up to 90 percent of e-mail is spam. Still, Microsoft is plowing ahead with Sender ID, perhaps in a last-ditch effort to make good on a promise by Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates to can spam by 2006.
[June 23, 2005, 9:30]
Microsoft to sign anti-spam agreement
News Microsoft is expected to announce on Wednesday a partnership with IronPort, adopting its anti-spam protections for MSN and Hotmail email. The deal feeds into Microsoft's corporate mandate to squelch spam.
[May 5, 2004, 9:15]
Microsoft to fix Bing spam bug
News Microsoft announced on Wednesday that it is fixing a bug in Bing that previously allowed spammers to bypass spam filters and distribute malicious links. Researchers at Webroot Software discovered a spam campaign earlier this week that used the...
[October 22, 2009, 10:01]
Microsoft proposes ID solution for spam
News Microsoft on Thursday is holding a summit with members of the Email Service Provider Coalition to address the use of Sender ID technology as a standard to fight spam and phishing. Fighting the annoyance of spam and the dangers of fraud activity...
[August 13, 2004, 8:40]
Microsoft Small Business Server 2003 Spam Filtering
White Papers This paper explains the spam filtering features provided with Microsoft SBS 2003 and how to implement them. Microsoft provides lots of features with Exchange Server 2003 Service Pack 2 to filter Spam and provides a solution to reduce the amount of...
[October 20, 2006, 1:00]
Microsoft fires off spam lawsuits
News Microsoft has filed seven lawsuits against unnamed defendants who it believes sent spam that violated the US anti-spam law CAN-SPAM. Sexually explicit spam, where the content is immediately viewable in the email, violates provisions known as "brown...
[December 2, 2004, 15:00]
Microsoft launches anti-spam site
Talkback In other words, less Windows PC users that are easily tricked into becoming spam bots. As such ISP's are better advised to install Open Source anti-spam solutions running on robust platforms to check all incoming and outgoing mail with within their...
[May 29, 2005, 20:47]
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]
Microsoft proposes Sender ID to jam spam
Talkback I sent the following to Microsoft: I saw a report about your proposals and wanted to add my comments. I work from home *a lot* and keep in touch with colleagues inside my organisation and contacts outside it by others.
[June 30, 2004, 14:27]
Microsoft adds spam filtering to MSN 8
Talkback i wanna have msn 8 2 try it b4 by it
[October 22, 2003, 12:47]
Microsoft fires off spam lawsuits
Talkback Hummm i see so old M$ Corp is going to take itself to court and prossecute itself as there software is the stuff of choice for spammers it it something like SCO trying to claim they own Linux they are now finding they dont even own SCO Ha.
[December 3, 2004, 23:10]
