Spam Protection

McAfee, Yahoo! Making Search More Secure With Alert Optimal

Armen Hareyan — Tue, 06 May 2008 08:46:01 -0500

New SearchScan feature from Yahoo! search alerts users about dangerous web sites before they click on them.

PineApp announces new ZombiCopTM in fight against increasing threat from Zombies

webitpr — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 07:28:57 -0500

PineApp, a global leader in securing networks and email systems, has launched its new ZombiCop solution for ISPs to block the growing volumes of spam from zombie computers that is increasingly resilient to existing anti-virus or anti-botnet defences.

Cisco Stops Spam with Increased Performance from Intel

harminka — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 07:55:18 -0500

IronPort® Systems, a business unit of Cisco® today announced the use of Multi-core Intel® Xeon® processors to power IronPort's next generation of email and Web security appliances.

GFI MailEssentials Wins MSExchange.org Readers' Choice Award For Third Year Running

webitpr — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 04:11:38 -0500

GFI MailEssentials, an anti-spam and anti-phishing solution, has won the MSExchange.org Readers’ Choice Award in the Anti-Spam category for the third year running, GFI Software, an international developer of network security, content security and messaging software has announced. GFI MailEssentials can be installed on a Microsoft Exchange server or SMTP gateway and stops over 98% of spam.

Computer scientists shed light on Internet Scams

Armen Hareyan — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 12:09:13 -0500

94 percent of spam-advertised online scams are hosted on individual Web servers, say scientists from University of California - San Diego.

Teacher Gets Trials On Classroom Porn Case

ruzik_tuzik — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 08:18:56 -0500

Judge gave a retrial time to the teacher who was claimed for showing porn to her pupils. A team of internet specialist supported her, declaring she was innocent, that it was a result of spam pop-ups.

World's Biggest Spammer Arrested

ruzik_tuzik — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 04:05:03 -0500

Robert Alan Soloway, 27 year old, the world's biggest e-mail spammer is arrested. He was arrested for mail fraud, wire fraud, e-mail fraud, identity theft and money laundering.

Apache SpamAssassin 3.2.0 available

Armen Hareyan — Sat, 26 May 2007 06:07:39 -0500

Apache SpamAssassin 3.2.0 is now available! This is the official release, and contains a significant number of changes and major enhancements -- please use it!

Consumers Savvy About Managing Email

Armen Hareyan — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 21:26:03 -0500

Today, the Email Sender and Provider Coalition (ESPC) announced the results of a survey conducted with marketing research firm Ipsos that provides insight into the email behaviors of today's consumers. The results show that the average American is an experienced email user using very deliberate methods to manage email and spam.

Openwave And Commtouch Provide Iintegrated Spam Solution

Nymphadora — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 04:23:05 -0600