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  • Anti-spam advocate succumbs to spammer

    A prominent crusader against unsolicited e-mail ads withdrew from an escalating cyberwar with spammers on Wednesday after his Web site and numerous others came under a massive retaliatory attack.

  • Firms give anti-spam solutions thumbs down

    Most businesses have given a resounding thumbs down to the technologies used to keep spam out of their mail in boxes, a new survey has revealed.

  • Time travelling spam tops e-mail inboxes

    In a simple twist of tactics, spammers are sending large amounts of unsolicited e-mail that has been date stamped one month in the future -- in order to guarantee their messages remain at the top of the recipients' inbox.

  • Anti-spam list gets spammed

    They may have signed up for the service to stay free of unsolicited e-mail, but people in Blue Security's "Do Not Intrude Registry" are getting spammed, the company said on Wednesday.

  • DKIM antispam standard can't stop spam

    An engineer who helped develop a new antispam technology called DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) said it's not a foolproof way to keep nasty e-mails out of your inbox, but it is a step in the right direction.

Blogs (1)

  • Read the blog post - Munir Kotadia

    Web 2.0 makes phishing spam obsolete

    In three years phishing has transformed from an unknown threat into a multi-million dollar industry; in the next stage of its evolution, phishers will avoid using spam and instead hijack small parts of 'trusted' Web sites in order to bypass anti-phishing tools.

Features and Case Studies (59)

  • Is hosted anti-spam the answer?

    It has taken only four years for spam to become the bane of business but, as SMBs are finding, spam can be killed before it enters inboxes with the use of a hosted provider.

  • Managing spam: Is outsourcing the answer?

    Myriad solutions are available to help eradicate spam. In this guide, ZDNet Australia  looks at one such answer -- hosted or outsourced anti-spam management.

  • Microsoft's role in ID theft

    Peter Cullen, the company's chief privacy strategist, explains how Sender ID can take a bite out of spam and phishing.

  • One giant step against spam

    For almost two years, I've argued for a non-proprietary, interoperable, freely deployable anti-spam standard, even as every spam-fighting solution I've seen has failed to pass muster. Until now.

  • Appliances: The future of mail hygiene?

    Driven by vast demand for spam-blocking services, the popularity of appliance-based mail hygiene platforms is rising rapidly, says research firm Meta Group. Additional reading: Systems Management for IT professionals.

Reviews (46)

  • McAfee Internet Security 2009

    McAfee Internet Security 2009 does a reasonable job, but it also leaves room for improvement.

  • Norton AntiSpam 2005

    Persistent performance issues with Norton AntiSpam 2005 have soured our opinion and lead us to recommend MailFrontier Desktop instead.

  • Norton Internet Security 2005

    There's little new in Norton Internet Security for upgraders, and newbies can do much better with ZoneAlarm Security Suite.

  • ZoneAlarm Internet Security 6.0

    ZoneAlarm Security Suite puts Norton and McAfee to shame with its easy-to-use triple-layer firewall, antivirus, antispam and now antispyware features.

  • Slam that spam in 2005

    Although Microsoft Outlook 2003 includes robust junk mail filtering, the spam continues to leak through. That's why you need another layer of defense.

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