or some, spam is like ants at a picnic: uninvited, ubiquitous and annoying. For many others, whose uninvited e-mails flood their computer mailbox, it’s an expensive headache. Try as you might, ...

Spammers are combining their circumvention techniques into a "triple threat" to increase the efficacy of their attacks, according to Symantec. Paul Wood, MessageLabs intelligence senior analyst, ...

To minimize the false positives caused by spam filters, it helps to know a bit about how they work. To keep up with ever more sophisticated spam, filters have used a variety of techniques over the ...

A new Return Path study, conducted by Forrester Consulting, reveals that most corporations employ a variety of spam-filtering techniques, not just one. This finding indicates that B2B e-mail marketers ...

Virtela, a provider of managed VPN services, is now offering spam filtering, virus checking and content filtering to help its enterprise customers reduce threats from ...

Added to this, spammers are becoming more sophisticated and are constantly managing to outsmart ’static’ methods of fighting spam. The techniques currently used by most anti-spam software are ...

A new spam filter for Microsoft's Hotmail service is not only bouncing US$198 Florida land deals and instant diplomas from in-boxes, it's also thwarting email sent from subscribers to themselves. One ...

Spam sucks. We all know that. There is no better way of putting it -- especially if your company has ever been hit with 10,000 pieces of spam in a single day. It's not too far-fetched a scenario: ...