Spelling it out clearly, Salem said: "If ISPs don't provide spam filtering their customers will leave. After years of tolerating the annoyance of spam, companies and ISPs are starting to take the problem of unsolicited email seriously.
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...
James Kay, technical director at email-security firm Blackspider, said that phishing is fundamentally a spam problem so it can be addressed by analysing the contents of incoming messages and recognising certain patterns and peculiarities.
This means that the network will perform the same functions that firewalls, intrusion detection and prevention, antivirus and content-filtering systems do today. Like existing tools from Arbor Networks, Mazu Networks and Q1 Labs, the network will...
UK counties, for example, whose names end in 'sex', such as Essex and Sussex, experienced serious problems in the early days of spam filtering when crude Bayesian filtering detected that word. Voluntary Services Overseas, the global charity, has...