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Does your PC help send 70 per cent of spam?
News And according to anti-spam experts, Florida-based spammers are booking air time on Russian owned botnets to send their junk mail. Botnets send masses of... [23 Sep 2004]
Californian anti-spam bill killed
News Microsoft uses a megaphone to tell everyone how much it hates spam at the same time it's working overtime to kill truly tough anti-spam laws. The competing bills, each of which passed... [03 Jul 2003]
Are infected home PCs adding to spam headache?
News There is a high correlation," said Matt Sergeant, senior anti-spam technologist for the UK company. Junk emailers are spreading viruses that let them send spam... [30 Jun 2003]
Spam born in the USA - and much is porn
News This indicates spammers are finding ways around that country's anti-spam legislation. One way spammers are thwarting CAN-SPAM, the US anti-spam... [17 Aug 2004]
Spamhaus hits out at paid-for email delivery plan
News users, though, as any companies using the service would have to show that under anti-spam laws they had the right to send the emails. A leading... [07 Feb 2006]
eBay hosts sale of spam tools and addresses
News Anybody surfing eBay can buy millions of email addresses as well as the tools to send them out, leading one anti-spam campaigner to accuse the auction site of profiting from the... [20 Jan 2005]
Spamvertisers get the chop from UK ISPS
News ISPs' anti-spam policies will now also target website owners even when the site owner uses a third party to send the spam itself. The first LINX BCP on... [19 Aug 2004]
Court stops anti-spam firm from blocking junk email
News A Northern California District Court judge has issued a temporary restraining order to prevent SpamCop, an anti-spam operation, from interfering with messages sent by alleged junk emailer OptInRealBig.com. [12 May 2004]
Microsoft does anti-spam deal for MSN and Hotmail
News Microsoft is expected to announce today a partnership with IronPort, adopting its anti-spam protections for MSN and Hotmail email. Outside of its bonded sender programme, Ironport sells email server... [05 May 2004]
Taiwan fingered as spam hub
News The company attributed the spam rise to two factors: the demise of anti-spam efforts by Blue Security, and growing use by spammers of image-only emails to defeat filters. After a... [12 Jun 2006]
US House of Reps passes anti-spam bill
News The US House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly to approve anti-spam legislation that could end more than six years of failed attempts to create a federal law restricting unsolicited commercial email. [24 Nov 2003]
New laws will make it 'legal' to spam your work address
News The government's new anti-spam measures may leave corporate email addresses out of the loop, giving junk emailers free rein to bombard you at your desk. Many people feel strongly that... [03 Jul 2003]
The Weekly Round-Up: 13.05.05
Round-Up Telewest's 900,000 or so customers have all been blacklisted by the Spam Prevention Early Warning System (SPEWS), whose list is referenced by many anti-spam controls. By blocking all... [13 May 2005]
UK spammers turn on Spamhaus
News Pioneering anti-spam organisation The Spamhaus Project has begun receiving threats from spammers, many of whom appear to have moved into the UK following the establishment of controversial UK laws that... [11 Jun 2004]
Spamming tool forced to look for new home
News Earlier this month, anti-spam campaigner Spamhaus accused MCI of harbouring spammers by allowing Send-Safe.com to be hosted on its network. Steve Linford, director of... [01 Mar 2005]
