Those filtering methods can help combat one problem in spam-fighting: false positives, which lead legitimate email to get mislabeled as spam. Spam-filtering is shooting at a target that is not just moving, it's taking evasive action," said Bill...
Mark Sunner, CTO at MessageLabs, said that a convergence of virus technology and spamming techniques have resulted in a large proportion of PCs being transformed into spam engines. The amount of spam moving around the internet has increased from...
It's time this functionality was switched off - at least for several days either side of virus outbreaks such as this week's. Companies won't filter it or block it - because there's no distinguishing between such notifications and genuine...
The United States is by far the leading originator of most of the spam received around the world, according to a study published by UK antivirus company Sophos. The broad international spread of junk email senders, with European and Asian countries...
The suite allows IBM to manage customers' spam and virus problems remotely. Cohen added that addressing the segment makes sense since smaller firms face the same spam and virus problems as large businesses but often don't have or don't want to...
An appliance can check all content coming in via the main email gateway for spam and viruses. Specialised hardware has been around since before the word 'appliance' was uttered in IT. A few years ago, when the term 'appliance' first came into...