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Network Associates awarded antispam patent

June 2, 2004 The patent covers a combination of techniques to fight unsolicited e-mail. TAGS: Networks Associates Technology Inc., anti-spam, spam, patent, McAfee Inc., technique, e-mail

Trend Micro fights spam based on reputation

July 19, 2005 New services block junk messages using a list of IP addresses that are known to be sending spam or should not be sending e-mail at all. TAGS: Trend Micro Inc., spam, IP address, anti-spam, IP, e-mail

Hot and bothered over spam

November 15, 2004 Net heavyweights look to the government to help combat junk e-mail. Also: Yahoo attaches antispam to outbound messages. TAGS: spam, anti-spam, junk e-mail, phishing, Yahoo! Inc., U.S., e-mail

Brightmail tackles zombies

July 1, 2004 Antispam vendor releases new version of software to try to keep zombie PCs at bay. TAGS: Brightmail Inc., zombie, spam, spammer, anti-spam, IP address, address, IP, e-mail, PC

Spam seen as security risk

February 11, 2004 As unwanted e-mail continues to pour into in-boxes, more corporate customers are viewing it as a security risk, especially when e-mail based worms like MyDoom come onto the scene. TAGS: Networks Associates Technology Inc., anti-spam, security risk, spam, MyDoom virus, corporate security, worm attack, worm, security, e-mail server, security company, e-mail, survey, server

Yahoo Mail delivers new spam measures

October 21, 2003 Internet giant Yahoo launches new antispam tools for its Web-based e-mail service as part of an ongoing effort to curb the Internet's most reviled by-product. TAGS: Yahoo! Mail, anti-spam, spam, e-mail company, Yahoo! Inc., America Online Inc., e-mail, e-mail address

Study: Five countries send 99 percent of spam

June 30, 2004 A half-yearly analysis shows the United States is the source of more than half of all spam. TAGS: Commtouch, spam, CAN-SPAM Act, anti-spam, China, U.S., analysis, e-mail

Report: A third of spam spread by RAT-infested PCs

December 3, 2003 About 30 percent of spam on the Web is relayed through PCs hit by malicious programs known as Remote Access Trojans, an antivirus company says. TAGS: Graham Cluley, spam, Sophos Plc., remote access, spammer, anti-spam, malicious program, antivirus company, attacker, virus, antivirus, broadband, PC, e-mail

Antispam group rejects e-mail payment plan

February 7, 2006 Spamhaus says the e-mail charges planned by Yahoo and AOL will erode our freedom to communicate. TAGS: anti-spam, Spamhaus, America Online Inc., freedom, Yahoo! Inc., spam, e-mail, Time Warner Inc., payment, agency

EU members ignore spam directive

April 27, 2004 Eight countries, including France and Germany, have yet to implement the EU antispam directive, six months after the official deadline. TAGS: European Union, directive, spam, anti-spam, France, Germany, member, London

Hotmail tries to fry more spam

October 23, 2003 Taking a new twist on an old antispam method, Microsoft previews a system for singling out mail from approved addresses. It plans to use the system in its free Hotmail e-mail service. TAGS: MSN Hotmail, spam, anti-spam, holder, sender, mail, inbox, contact, America Online Inc., message, Time Warner Inc., e-mail address, Yahoo! Inc., e-mail, Microsoft Corp.

Missouri files spam suit under new law

October 10, 2003 As efforts increase to crush spammers with legislation, Missouri's attorney general puts the state's new antispam law to the test with lawsuits against two alleged violators. TAGS: Missouri, anti-spam, antispam law, attorney general, law, penalty, spam, lawsuit, state, Florida, Internet Service Provider, e-mail

China joins forum on curbing spam

February 23, 2005 In a move that inspires optimism, China--one of the largest contributors to the spam epidemic-- appears at London discussion. TAGS: Spamhaus, anti-spam, spam, China, spammer, London, government, conference, U.S.

IBM serves antispam, virus service for small biz

April 21, 2004 Big Blue will sell an antispam and virus service to small and midsize businesses to help the little guy get a leg up against productivity drains. TAGS: Fred Cohen, anti-spam, virus, small and medium business, spam, IBM Corp., server

Spam: Made in Taiwan?

June 9, 2006 Junk e-mail rose in May, most of it served up from Taiwan--and the death of Blue Frog was a factor, CipherTrust says. TAGS: CipherTrust Inc., zombie, Taiwan, spammer, spam, anti-spam, factor, China, message, e-mail, U.S.

Can-Spam didn't, survey says

December 30, 2004 A survey due out Monday will report that the federal antispam law did little to deter spammers. TAGS: MX Logic Inc., CAN-SPAM Act, antispam company, anti-spam, survey, spam, law, service provider, e-mail, Microsoft Corp., U.S.

Stopping spam at the source

August 23, 2004 New technology will attack spam at the source to try make it more expensive for spammers to do their dirty work. TAGS: spammer, e-mail authentication, anti-spam, spam, Cisco Systems Inc., authentication, spam filtering, e-mail server, proposal, phishing, e-mail, server

Gates reveals his 'magic solution' to spam

January 26, 2004 The battle to rid the world's in-boxes of spam has got itself a heavyweight champion--Bill Gates--who's making a heavyweight promise: an end to the e-mail plague within two years. TAGS: Bill Gates, spam, sender, anti-spam, payment, e-mail, Microsoft Corp.

Telecoms, ISPs partner in spam fight

January 14, 2004 A group of international telecom providers, Internet service providers and software companies plan to form a "neighborhood watch" to oust junk e-mail from their collective networks. TAGS: Openwave Systems, Internet Service Provider, anti-spam, neighborhood, spam, telecommunications, spammer, junk e-mail, messaging, telecommunications company, software company, collaboration, Internet service, America Online Inc., IP, service provider

China plans spam crackdown

February 22, 2006 World's second-worst offender as source of spam will introduce measures to curb the problem--but critics say they don't go far enough. TAGS: China, spam, Sophos Plc., junk e-mail, anti-spam, Internet Service Provider, London
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