University Uses Hosted Filtering Solution to Reduce Spam by 85 Percent
White Papers The university's IT staff were creating manual rules to block spam, an effort that generated too many false positives and was not the most productive use of their time. The university has reduced spam by 85 percent and completely eliminated false...
[July 27, 2009, 1:20]
Blocking 55 Million Spam Per Year to Help Reduce World Poverty With Software and Services From Symantec and CGNET
White Papers The challenge is greatest in developing countries where bandwidth is scarce and spam and viruses can bring email communications to a standstill. The Symantec service is helping the Centers block more than 55,000,000 spam and 1,200,000 viruses per...
[January 18, 2008, 0:01]
Keeping Viruses and Downtime Out of the News With Threat Management and Data Protection Software From Symantec
White Papers The Brazilian TV and radio network installed Symantec software to guard its IT systems from viruses and other malicious code, reduce spam, improve data protection, and streamline recovery and restore operations.
[January 18, 2008, 0:01]
Spam campaigners reject email payment plan
News Cox said that charging for email services was unlikely to reduce spam despite what he thinks AOL and Yahoo will claim. It won't reduce spam directly. A leading anti-spam agency has hit out at moves to charge companies a fixed fee to ensure emails...
[February 6, 2006, 15:45]
Trend Micro InterScan Gateway Security Appliance review
Reviews It can also save your company time and money by helping you to achieve regulatory compliance, preserve network resource availability and reduce spam so that your employees can be more productive, as well as reduce the administrative effort, cost...
[September 5, 2007, 14:22]
Wednesday: Microsoft changes its spots
Blog The spam that broke the camel's back landed on a whole load of desks in Redmond recently. Like any big company, Microsoft suffers from the relentless onslaught of drab rip-off emails, and it has anti-spam filters in place.
[June 20, 2003, 17:11]
Viviane Reding nominated for internet villain award
News On the shortlist for the 2007 Villain award, Reding is joined by e360 insight, an email marketing company which tried to obtain a restraining order on UK anti-spam firm Spamhaus. Commissioner Viviane Reding and the European Commission: "For...
[January 4, 2007, 15:59]
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]
Spam Vaccine
Downloads Spam Vaccine helps Web site owners reduce spam. Spam Vaccine protects you from "spambots," programs that hunt for email addresses on the Web. Spam Vaccine stops spam by "vaccinating" email addresses that appear on Web pages.
[January 23, 2002, 6:00]
Earlier post
Talkback In an effort to curb spam and reduce phishing risks, we filter out any Talkback or comment that includes more than 2 URLs, and then manually reinstate those that check out. The post you mention may have been put into quarantine because it contained...
[June 8, 2009, 17:36]
An Effective Defense Against Email Spam Laundering
White Papers Laundering email spam through open-proxies or compromised PCs is a widely-used trick to conceal real spam sources and reduce spamming cost in underground email spam industry. Spammers have been plaguing the Internet by exploiting a large number of...
[October 14, 2008, 1:01]
Exchange 2003 Server Service Pack 2 & Anti-Spam Framework
White Papers With the introduction of Exchange 2003 Server, Microsoft built a framework that included a number of features intended to reduce the volume of spam. The framework called for a solution based on a multi-layered approach around the idea that most if...
[October 18, 2006, 1:00]
Education, not legislation will reduce e-crimes
News Legislating against electronic crimes such as spam and ID fraud will not reduce the problem; instead, education for small businesses and consumers and cooperation between countries is the answer, according to two major industry groups, who...
[December 11, 2003, 16:40]
An Overview of the Sender Policy Framework
White Papers SPF will not totally reduce Spam but is a powerful solution in the fight against Spam. Some statistics state that nearly 75% of all e-mail traffic is Spam, sometimes called UCE (Unsolicited Commercial Email).
[February 4, 2005, 2:00]
Microsoft Exchange Server Intelligent Message Filter v2 Operations Guide
White Papers Microsoft Exchange Server Intelligent Message Filter v2 helps companies reduce the amount of Unsolicited Commercial E-mail (UCE), also known as spam, received by users. This paper provides an overview of Microsoft Exchange Server Intelligent...
[October 11, 2006, 1:00]
Quadrupling the Catch Rate of Image-Based Spam With Symantec Brightmail Helps Keep Inboxes Spam-Free at Leading Email Service Provider
White Papers This virtually eliminated it from USA.NET customer mailboxes, ending complaint calls from customers about spam, and helping to reduce the processing and storage burden from image based spam by as much as 95 percent.
[June 20, 2007, 1:00]
ISP Spam filtering
White Papers In order both to provide a service to customers - and reduce their own business costs - what are the options for ISPs to offer an effective spam filtering solution? Spam costs businesses both directly and indirectly.
[January 25, 2007, 13:27]
Fred Olsen Sails Smoothly With MailMarshal
White Papers They explored solutions from major security vendors, including Websense/ Blackspider, McAfee, SurfControl, Clearswift and Marshal, and concluded that a hardware appliance solution would both solve their spam issue and reduce the load on the...
[February 21, 2009, 0:24]
The Passing Storm: The Storm/Nuwar Botnet
White Papers Local monitoring and blocking of SMTP traffic from systems other than authorized mail servers can reduce the impact of spam, fraudulent and malicious email spread over open relays and open proxies, while locked down desktops with minimum user...
[June 20, 2009, 1:21]
Making Citizen Information Safer, and County Operations More Efficient, Thanks to Security From Symantec and Novacoast
White Papers As a result, the county is realizing significant savings in annual security expenses, blocking spam to reduce incoming email by 60 percent, and has had no downtime due to threat intrusion in 2 1/2 years.
[August 29, 2006, 0:00]



