Enrique Salem, CEO of anti-spam vendor Brightmail, told silicon.com: "If we are to beat the spammers then we all have to do a better job of filtering our email. Computer users overwhelmed with spam believe technology offers the best way to escape...
A coming together of industry major players has been long overdue and one of the themes to emerge from the EEMA Spam Conference is that the complexity of vendor solutions and mixed messages has been a contributing factor in making the war on spam...
According to the industry's largest anti-spam vendor, these tools, in conjunction with existing filtering, will bring an end to the spam deluge within two years. Five of the biggest names on the front line of the anti-spam battle - AOL, Brightmail...
Hockey cited examples such as police forces or companies handling claims or complaints where emails may include, as statement of fact, language or terms which are by their very nature offensive. This gateway approach is because companies see the...
Symantec's report also noted a decline in image spam. Some 10 per cent of all spam messages in July were image-based, compared to about 50 per cent earlier this year. However, the decline in image spam is giving rise to attachments in other forms.
He said: "My feeling is this won't make it to the level that image spam has. The voice is heavily distorted to avoid detection by signature-based anti-spam security. An outbreak of pump-and-dump email spam this week is using bandwidth-sapping MP3...
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