Those filtering methods can help combat one problem in spam-fighting: false positives, which lead legitimate email to get mislabeled as spam. While many developers are working on new methods of filtering, for instance, there is a need for other...
Mail filtering specialist MessageLabs has come in for criticism after it was blocked by AOL's spam filters amid allegations that it had an open relay which was pumping out spam. One customer, who contacted silicon.com anonymously, to complain about...
As spam-filtering technologies become more common, spammers have altered the construction of their messages to avoid detection. Alun Davies, European VP of marketing at internet software firm Rockliffe, said his company's products will soon be...
Security software company McAfee said this week that it has been granted a patent for methods of filtering spam, or unsolicited email. The US Patent Office approved the patent, a sweeping grant for the company's methods and systems used within its...
announced a proposal of best practices for filtering and sending email. Microsoft, too, has developed its own system for identifying the origin of email, called Caller ID for email. A coalition of top internet service providers has put forward a...
Microsoft has merged two email authentication methods into a single proposed standard in an attempt to clamp down on the menace of phishing attacks and spam - but fears already exist that criminals will find a way around the fixes.
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