According to the American Economics Association, consumers and firms collectively spend a minimum of $20 billion annually due to spam. This money goes in a variety of directions, and anti-spam ...

More anti-spam vendors are expanding their offerings beyond blocking unwanted e-mail, as FrontBridge Technologies promotes its disaster-recovery services and MailFrontier adds fraud protection to its ...

Spam and phishing emails are an annoying everyday occurrence that everyone is probably familiar with and finds annoying. These intrusive messages often clog up your inbox and require tedious deletion ...

The crucial element to any effective anti-spam solution – software, appliance or other – is software. The growth of spam in the past five years has created such a deluge that anti-spam technology has ...

LAS VEGAS (AP) _ Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates has announced new junk e-mail filtering technology called SmartScreen at his keynote address at the annual Comdex trade show in Las Vegas. Gates, ...

Junk mail has a new meaning nowadays. Rather than filling an actual mailbox, people are getting bombarded with texts and emails they never asked for. The messages press you to send money for an unpaid ...

Is your inbox cluttered with spam? It can be annoying when you can’t find the emails you’re actually looking for. Some spam emails even contain dangerous links or pixel tracking, which can pose risks ...

I still love receiving mail, but most of what lands in my mailbox these days isn’t cards from people I know or magazines I look forward to every month. Rather, it’s junk that goes right into the trash ...

Hormel Foods, manufacturer of Spam luncheon meat, files complaints with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office against software company Spam Arrest. Hormel says the Seattle-based technology company, ...

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