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 | Activator Mail Virus scanning and spam prevention based on blacklists and user feedback. |
 | 'Spam' Costs Internet Users EUR 10 Billion a Year - Study Internet subscribers across the world are unwittingly paying an estimated EUR 10 billion a year in connection costs just to receive junk e-mails or 'spam', according to a study undertaken for the European Commission. [EU Business] |
 | 24/7 Media Snags Restraining Order Against MAPS Ad server and technology company 24/7 Media succeeded in getting a temporary restraining order against anti-spam non-profit Mail Abuse Prevention System, on behalf of 24/7's e-mail marketing subsidiary, 24/7 Exactis. [InternetNews] |
 | ORBS antispam site shut down The war on unsolicited email suffered a setback this week as a spam-blocking site was bounced off the Web. [News.com] |
 | Send Us Spam The only web site on the planet that wants your spam and other unsolicited, bulk, or junk email. |
 | Avoid Spam Spam related news, articles, reviews, downloads and forums. |
 | SpamMotel Offering anti-spam program and disposable email addresses. |
 | Bumpymail.com Free e-mail forwarding accounts. Forwarding address disappears automatically after fixed time period and mail is bounced. Spammers won't be able to reach you. |
 | The Spam Eater Easy to use spam blocker. Stop spam before it reaches your computer. |
 | Vetomail Spam blocker for Outlook and Outlook Express. |
 | Redcondor Stops spam before it ever reaches your network. |
 | AntiSpam DNSBL Identifies spam sources - whether intentional or not - at the time they are sending spam. Not before and not after. |
 | Spamerang A call for all internet users to turn the spammers' own email addresses into spam bait. |
 | Spam & Open Relay Blocking System (SORBS) Lists Open Relays and Open Proxies (Open HTTP Proxy Servers and Open SOCKS Proxy Servers). SORBS only scans a host when it attempts to send mail to one of the feeder servers. |
 | DNS Real-time Black List (DNSRBL) DNSRBL publishes, via DNS, a list of IP addresses that are either direct SPAM sources or Dial-up (dynamic address) pools which would never be a source of non-SPAM eMail. |
 | AntiSpamWare works with a POP3 account and AOL. Available for Windows 9X/NT/2000/XP. |
 | Misermail E-mail program whose main feature is to access a POP3 account and filter spam. |
 | SPAMFilter ISP Anti-spam software that acts as a proxy to existing SMTP servers. Filters E-mail based on DNS blacklists and individual filters such as keywords, IP, From address. [Unix,Windows] |
 | Apocgraphy Software that works with a current e-mail reader, analyzing e-mail and protecting against a full range spam, hoaxes, viruses and privacy hazards. |
 | Computerworld: Spam Wars In the past year, spam has moved beyond personal e-mail accounts, invading business systems and graduating from societal pest to corporate enemy. |
 | Internetnews: It's All Perfectly Illegal The seven werpetrators agreed to settle charges that they were spamming consumers with deceptive chain letters. Financial terms of the settlements were not disclosed. |
 | Internetnews: FTC Plans Crackdown on 9-11 Spam Spam is one of the Internet's dirty little secrets, and it's bad enough when your mom gets targeted with porn stuff and get-rich quick schemes. But the people who prey on the public selling worthless products related to the events of Sept. 11 are among th |
 | E-Commerce News: FTC Shuts Down 9-11 Spam Scam The U.S. District Court ordered the immediate shutdown of a Web site owned by a European spam outfit for bilking more than $1 million from customers, Federal Trade Commission officials announced Monday. |
 | Newsfactor: The Unstoppable Flood of Spam After remaining neutral for some time, the Direct Marketing Association announced last week that it will support U.S. state and federal legislation aimed at curtailing spam. |
 | CNET.com: AOL awarded millions in spam case A Virginia federal court awarded America Online nearly $7 million in damages as part of the Internet service providers' legal victory over a junk e-mail operation, AOL said Monday. |
 | Detroit Free Press: Behind the scenes, spam's even uglier Bloomfield Township spam artist Alan Ralsky is in the midst of yet another controversy, this time involving an anti-spam activist who says someone left him threatening telephone messages after he took photos of Ralsky's brand-new $740,000 house. |
 | BBC News: The web bites back Protesters are turning the tables on government officials and businessmen who they say are making the web less pleasant to use. |
 | BBC News: US workers spared junk e-mails Spam is not overwhelming the inboxes of US workers, despite the growing number of junk e-mails promoting get-rich-quick scams or pornographic websites, says a report. |
 | Wired: Archive: Fresh Spam for Everyone Is your spouse dissatisfied with the size of your spam? A brand-new website has made several hundred thousand pieces of unsolicited commercial e-mail available for you to download today. |
 | The Miami Herald: Spamming for a living She moved her cursor to the "send" icon and clicked. "It's that simple," Laura Betterly said triumphantly, swiping her palms. She had just dispatched e-mail messages to 500,000 strangers. |
 | The Register: Where the heck is all this spam coming from? The growth of the spam problem in 2002 has been exponential, writes Kevin Murphy . Companies that sell spam filtering software say currently the percentage of email that is spam could be 20%, 33%, or even up to 50%, compared to less than 10% a year ago. |
 | BBC News: Why one spam could cost $50 A US law firm has become the hero of the common people for its decision to take on the spam merchants who wage guerrilla warfare on our e-mail inboxes, offering everything from sex to cars and easy money to psychic readings. |
 | The Age: The Plague On Monday the battle raging in cyberspace between spammers and their nemesis, junk mail activists, will be fought out in a courtroom, where a landmark judgement is expected to influence the future of direct marketing over the Internet. |
 | SF Gate: Spam indigestion worsens So I get back after taking a week off and find my office e-mail basket spilling over with more than 700 messages. Several dozen were legitimate missives from readers and whatnot, and the rest . . . well, you know where I'm going with this. |
 | CNET: Spam: It's more than bulk e-mail Consumers are increasingly applying the stigma of spam to marketing messages of all stripes, causing headaches for legitimate advertisers on the Web and beyond. |
 | NPR - All Things Considered - Spam A radio segment on "spam" with Jason Catlett, head of Junkbusters Corporation, which is a privacy advocacy firm. He talks about how spam works, how it makes its way around the world and why it's successful. Then a talk with Alan Ralsky, direct |
 | Wired: FTC: Where Spam Goes to Die The FTC now has the most complete spam database in the world, a collection of over 20 million missives containing the solutions to all human wants and woes. |
 | CNET: Fat times for spam In September, more than 17 percent of all e-mail traveling across the Internet could be classified as spam, according to data collected by UK e-mail service provider MessageLabs. The company's figures are presented in its latest monthly report. |
 | CNET: Spammers slipping ads through Windows Spammers have co-opted an administration feature in Microsoft's Windows operating systems and are using it to bring up intrusive advertisements on Internet-connected computers. |
 | Slashdot: As the Spam Turns The SBL has added Verio's corporate mail servers to its blocklist which protects nearly 100 million mailboxes, because of the number of spam gangs on the Verio network. Verio also provides connectivity to AS26212, a collection of 9 of the most notorious s |
 | Wired: When the Spam Hits the Blogs Strange things are afoot in blogland. Owners of weblogs have recently noticed that their referral logs have become the newest target for spam. |
 | Wired: Spam Masquerades as Admin Alerts A new breed of pop-up ads is appearing on Microsoft Windows users' computers. The so-called "Messenger spams" have security experts and system administrators scratching their heads and recipients fuming. |
 | CNET.com: You've got spam, and more spam Corporate networks are becoming increasingly clogged by e-mail pitches for pornography, money-making schemes and health products, and there's little relief on the horizon. |
 | CNET.com: Anti-spam service battles bugs A new anti-spam service launched with much fanfare this week is facing some technical hurdles out of the gate and frustration from the community it relies on to fight junk mail. |
 | MSNBC: Spam crackdown urged Three consumer groups petitioned the Federal Trade Commission Wednesday to enact tougher rules regarding the sending of unsolicited commercial e-mail, popularly known as spam. If the rule is enacted, the FTC could move swiftly to blunt the unrelenting ass |
 | CNET.com: Groups seek federal action on spam Spam has become such a menace to the Internet that the Federal Trade Commission should take swift steps to stanch the flow of bulk e-mail, three consumer groups said Wednesday. |
 | Wired: Sprint Calls Audible in Spam Suit A lawsuit charging Sprint with sending illegal, unsolicited e-mail appears to be turning into a test case for how much evidence a company can recover when defending against allegations of wrongful spamming. |
 | CNET.com: Spam suit rings on Sprint Sprint Communications is facing a lawsuit in Utah alleging that it sent unsolicited commercial messages, or spam, in violation of a recently enacted state statute. |
 | smh.com.au: Sun goes down on man of words Green describes these electronic messages as "a little ray of sunshine". It irritates him that some of the recipients can't see the light. They regard Green's sunshine as spam, get mad as hell, and send him responses that are "threatening, |
 | CNET.com: Spam filter a career killer? A meeting reminder from the boss, a lascivious letter from a lover, or the daily tally from a fantasy football league: Which e-mail would you read first? |
 | SF Gate: Spam attacks growing According to the latest monthly data from Brightmail the rate of unique spam attacks measured by the company's network of decoy addresses has increased more than five-fold during the past year -- from less than a million in June 2001 to more than 4.8 mill |
 | CNET.com: EU body pushes spam guidelines The European Parliament has signed off on sweeping guidelines for Internet regulation, including prohibiting spam and the use of cookies without the explicit permission from Web surfers. |
 | Slashdot: Australian Spammer Sues Back We've all heard the one about the spammers begin sued. Now, an Ausie spammer is suing back, for being blacklisted. Claiming damages and equipment replacement costs and so on. The whole article is over at Yahoo. So, I guess now, not only are we subjected t |
 | Australian IT: Telstra in Brumbies scrum The Brumbies rugby union team has scored a try against Telstra after the telco sold them IP addresses discarded by a spammer and blocked by network administrators worldwide. |
 | CNET.com: Is your e-mail watching you? Watch out--the spam choking your e-mail in-box may be loaded with software that lets marketers track your moves online, and you may not even be aware that you've been bugged. |
 | Wired: The Law Is Going After Spam Spam and Internet fraud -- the twin plagues of the information age -- are getting stepped-up attention from federal and state agencies that say more joint effort from law enforcement groups is needed to curb the scourge that is online swindling. |
 | MSNBC: Yahoo! sneaks in yet more spam When Yahoo's instituted a privacy policy change this week, the firm reset all users' preferences so they would receive marketing pitches from the firm. |
 | Wired: Spam Showdown at Battle Creek The small city of Battle Creek, Michigan, wants to lock up an anti-spam activist who it believes crashed its mail server. Never mind that the town government was using a buggy version of the Lotus Domino e-mail server, and that newer releases have fixed t |
 | Wired: China Sweet, Sour on Spam Delegates at the annual meeting of China's National People's Congress roundly criticized Western systems administrators that are blocking all e-mail from China as a means to stop spam, but they also called for new laws to make sending spam illegal in Chin |
 | Wired: Candidate: Spam in Every Pot A supposedly Internet-savvy Republican candidate for governor of California, one of the few states with an anti-spam law, isn't campaigning against unsolicited e-mail -- he's sending it. Bill Jones' campaign sent out thousands of unsolicited e-mails this |
 | CNET.com: Free speech or campaign spam? California gubernatorial candidate Bill Jones is back online after his Web-hosting service shut down his campaign Internet site in protest over a mass e-mail that some outraged recipients compared to spam. |
 | Wired: Not All Asian E-Mail Is Spam A new great wall is being built, this time across the Internet. Constructed by frustrated systems administrators and intended only to stop spam, the wall could eventually cut off much of the e-mail communications between the East and the West. |
 | Newsbytes: Chain-Letter Busts Kick Off FTC Crackdown On Spam The Federal Trade Commission today launched an unprecedented crackdown against deceptive junk e-mail - or "spam.? The nascent campaign seeks to marry individual enforcement actions against spammers with a consumer outreach and education program invol |
 | ZDNet News: Spam--it's worse than ever Do you need a penis enlargement? How about a cool million bucks, courtesy of a too-good-to-be true deal with the son of one of Nigeria's most powerful families? Anyone with an e-mail account has doubtless received sundry similar pitches. Ranging from the |
 | Privacy advocates say amended spam bill lacks teeth When rep. Heather Wilson (R-N.M.) introduced legislation in February to prevent or greatly reduce unsolicited commercial e-mail, commonly known as spam, privacy advocates cheered and then lent their support. But then some trade associations complained, an |
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