Spelling it out clearly, Salem said: "If ISPs don't provide spam filtering their customers will leave. Blocking spam has become even more critical given the meteoric rise in the levels of junk mail. ISPs have been urged to act in their own...
In December adult spam - such as teasers for porn sites or offers of trial subscriptions to 'XXX' services - accounted for 16 per cent of all unsolicited mail. Spam continues to make computer users' lives more stressful - clogging up even more...
The latest figures show that more than 40 per cent of all email traffic is spam - unsolicited mails offering the recipient everything from 'Natural Viagra' or 'low interest loans' to a share in an unclaimed Nigerian fortune.
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...
It's a sentiment that Alyn Hockey, director of research at mail-filtering firm Clearswift, agrees with. Email and web security is as much about preventing data leaving the organisation as it is protecting the organisation from threats, such as...
The investigator said that while the more sophisticated user knows software promoted via spam is unlikely to be a genuine product, the sites the spammers direct users towards via the junk mails can be convincing, with traditional 'shopping basket...