The crucial element to any effective anti-spam solution – software, appliance or other – is software. The growth of spam in the past five years has created such a deluge that anti-spam technology has ...

We’ve all heard about the cost of spam – the several seconds that individual users spend reading each spam message multiplied by the number of junk messages they receive each day multiplied by their ...

That was when his institution, the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, decided to use open-source software to cope with spam. Students and faculty and staff members were complaining loudly about ...

Brightmail has released a new version of its anti-spam software, Anti-Spam 6.0, which includes features designed to deal with zombie PCs, an improved ability to deal with foreign-language spam and a ...

This Windows utility normally sells for $29.95. It works with all mail systems and supports an unlimited number of accounts. Rick Broida is the author of numerous books and thousands of reviews, ...

Michael Herrick thought he had hit on an ingenious way to fight spam. The president of Matterform Media, in the Santa Fe, N.M., suburb of Espanola, had devised a software program to disable the ...

Until May of this year, Carl Shivers was in the habit of getting up in the middle of the night just to make sure spam hadn't brought down his company's e-mail servers. Shivers, a system administrator ...

Mailshell, a San Francisco software company, is working with the nonprofit site TechSoup.org on a campaign to help charities fight unwanted e-mail messages. The effort will culminate in Mailshell’s ...

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Online shoppers are still willing to buy products advertised in spam, indicating that the problem is unlikely to desist anytime soon, a new survey shows. Among the most popular items being sold via ...

A Virginia software developer has pleaded guilty to charges related to creating and marketing software designed to send bulk commercial e-mail messages, in violation of the U.S. CAN-SPAM Act, the U.S.