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    Separate research by security vendors McAfee and Marshal Software suggests that the industry is winning the war on spam, with two of the most common forms of spam-related scams on the decline.

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  • Telstra cuts newsgroup access after spam alert

    Telstra today conceded it had disconnected its news-group server from international newsgroups for five days in a move to avert a black ban from the international Usenet community.

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    High-speed Internet service providers are increasingly putting their customers in the security hot seat, as they try to fight recent virus attacks that turn computers into spam factories.

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