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Spamhaus Fights Back in 'Blackmail' Incident

After we've witnessed the argument between A2B Dutch ISP and the anti-spam organization Spamhaus, it seems as the episode continues with a retaliation from the alleged extortionists. An official statement from Spamhaus reveals their side of the story which is even more interesting than what we've seen so...

14 October 2011
08:15 GMT

Phone Call and SMS Anti-Spam Solution Offered Through Google Voice

Google has introduced an automatic anti-spam filter for Google Voice in order to protect users from unsolicited calls and SMS messages.Up until now, users who were bothered by telemarketers or other callers had the option of reporting their numbers as spam.However, the new system works automatically and relies on the...

13 July 2011
13:15 GMT

ImageShack Replaces Spam Images with Scam Warnings

Popular image hosting service ImageShack has decided to fight spam by replacing abusive images detected on its servers with ones that alert users about scams.ImageShack is one of the largest free media hosting providers and is used by hundreds of thousands of websites. The service runs on some 450 Linux servers, orga...

14 February 2011
01:21 GMT

Panda Global Protection 2011

Security suites are designed as a comprehensive approach to the security of home users and Panda Global Protection fits right into this category. It sports no less than six protection modules and a bunch of maintenance tools to keep your system in good shape. Anti-malware protection, firewall, identity protection, v...

27 December 2010
08:41 GMT

Fresh Ad-Aware Suite (II)

The next sections of Ad-Aware Total Security offer instruments designed to protect your email inbox both from threats as well as from spam messages. Also, there are a couple of system maintenance tools and parental control features and backup options. Although these three are not directly involved in malware fighting...

9 July 2010
03:01 GMT

Fresh Ad-Aware Suite (I)

Lavasoft has recently updated its security batch of products to a new version. And this year the company upped the ante including their full antivirus in the free version and creating a full blown protection suite to encompass not only Lavasoft’s best services, but also something on the side. Although there is ...

8 July 2010
10:05 GMT

Microsoft Debuts Forefront Anti-Spam Resource Center

Microsoft indicated that the Forefront anti-spam resource center was designed to provide customers with solutions and resources capable of protecting them from the deluge of unwanted email. In the Security Intelligence Report volume 6 (July - December 2008) released in April 2009, the Redmond company indicated that o...

7 May 2009
06:04 GMT

GMX Has No Competition

GMX, the latest comer in the world of webmail, has released its services to the UK and US market for more than a year now and the team has made great progress based on the feedback from users worldwide. It comes out with appealing features that exceed the offer of leaders of the market such as Gmail, Hotmail or Yahoo...

4 May 2009
10:53 GMT

Hotmail, Yahoo and Gmail Out-Webmailed by GMX

There was a time when webmail struggled to gain users' attention, but no more. It has become a standard and everybody has at least one inbox to check periodically. The undisputed leaders of the market, Yahoo, Gmail and Hotmail, have shared the market leaving little room to a new competitor. And yet GMX managed t...

22 April 2009
15:10 GMT

Anti-Spam Workshop, Courtesy of Yahoo!

The anti-spam department at Yahoo! decided to hold a workshop in order to help users express their doubts and concerns regarding spam received via email. Also, the team wanted to give some pieces of advice to those who got tired of the numerous methods used by spammers to get their messages to as many people as possi...

7 August 2008
11:31 GMT

Confirmed: Kaspersky Anti-Spam 3.0 Really Provides Advanced Protection

Kaspersky Lab's Anti-Spam 3.0 has recently received the anti-spam certification from ICSA Labs which underlines the fact that the application is really efficient when it comes to blocking unsolicited email traffic. The ICSA Labs certification is only granted to security applications that manage to discover more ...

25 April 2008
17:56 GMT

"Les French" Hoping to Shut Spammers Down

France is considered to be the country with the most malware in Europe and it ranks 10th in the global spam charts, based on recent studies. This is why one could say that the French really have a problem with cyber-security. But recently, they have decided to (at least) fight off spam - their government funded a too...

8 October 2007
05:42 GMT

Anti-Spam Costs Companies 140 Million Pounds

Spam filters are pretty good to have, especially if you're a large company, receiving a lot of messages daily. Thing is, these filters don't always function the way they should and sometimes dub legitimate e-mails as spam. Companies cannot afford losing business because of a program that fails to sort out m...

24 September 2007
09:35 GMT

Anti-Spam Ineffective

This is really annoying - many people ask themselves (or worse, they ask me) why their anti-spam program isn't helping them too much. I can't really give them advice, because I don't bother much with anti-spam myself, as I found out that it isn't all that effective. Instead of getting 10 spam e-ma...

18 September 2007
05:44 GMT


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