ISPs have been urged to act in their own interests to cut out junk mail, with anti-spam firm Brightmail producing figures which show customers have now grown intolerant of the inbox clutter and are ready to switch ISPs in search of protection from...
Weak security, such as mail servers with relays left open for exploitation by spammers, has also been blamed for the flood of junk mail from the region. Based on a threshold set by an administrator, the message will be forwarded to either the...
A Northern California District Court judge has issued a temporary restraining order to prevent SpamCop, an anti-spam operation, from interfering with messages sent by alleged junk emailer OptInRealBig.com.
Spammers typically use networks of zombies, or compromised PCs used without their owners' knowledge, to send out their junk messages. In research conducted in May, the email security company found that 64 per cent of machines sending out junk mail...
Spamhaus provides lists of known spammers to businesses, enabling them to block junk mail in their incoming email traffic. Spamhaus, a leading UK anti-spam service, will continue to operate after a US court rejected an attempt to take it offline...
Also, it does not do anything to flag junk email sent by a legitimate company, or identify spam sent from a domain name with a true DomainKeys record. It's called DomainKeys Identified Mail, and it promises to give internet users the best chance so...