Archive for August, 2009

Spam Filter - US Dems fill inboxes with 419 scams - The Register

Monday, August 31st, 2009

US Dems fill inboxes with 419 scams - The Register
Scammers pumping out emails that try to trick recipients into parting with large sums of cash are getting a helping hand from the Democratic National Committee. According to a researcher with anti-spam company Cloudmark, 419 fraudsters have been

Internet turns 40; open access at risk - Jackson Clarion-Ledger
NEW YORK — Goofy videos weren’t on the minds of Len Kleinrock and his team at UCLA when they began tests 40 years ago on what would become the Internet. Neither was social networking, for that matter, nor were most of the other easy-to-use

Less Phishing Spam Registered This Year - Softpedia
Security experts analyzing mail traffic are reporting a significant decline in phishing-related e-mails during the first half of 2009. The drop suggests that this type of activity has become less profitable for cybercrooks, who now prefer other

IBM research shows the overall number of phishing attacks has dropped - DailyTech
A report issued by IBM indicates the overall number of phishing scams declined in the first half of 2009, but that may only mean scammers are picking up new tactics to trick internet users. In the first six months of 2009, phishing totaled just 0.1

More legitimate e-mails being tagged as spam - East Valley Tribune
A. For some reason, more e-mail that I am sending out seems to be getting caught in spam filters, which is a major problem in my business. What am I doing wrong, or what can I do to avoid getting my messages trapped in spam filters? — Gina Q. We

As Internet turns 40, barriers threaten its growth - Herald News
NEW YORK — Goofy videos weren’t on the minds of Len Kleinrock and his team at UCLA when they began tests 40 years ago on what would become the Internet. Neither was social networking, for that matter, nor were most of the other easy-to-use

At 40, the Internet shows signs of losing its idealism - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
G oofy videos weren’t on the minds of Len Kleinrock and his team at UCLA when they began tests 40 years ago on what would become the Internet. Neither was social networking, for that matter, nor were most of the other easy-to-use applications that

BitDefender Offers Twitter Spam Protection Tips - Market Wire
BUCHAREST, ROMANIA–(Marketwire - August 26, 2009) - With the popularity of social networking platforms such as Twitter on the rise, cyber criminals have found an easy target among unsuspecting users. BitDefender, the leading provider of innovative

Voices of Big Sky: Residents Discuss Their Unique Community - Newwest.net
NewWest.Net encourages robust and lively, but civil participation from our readers. By posting here, you agree to the NewWest.Net terms of service . You agree to keep your comments on topic, respectful and free of gratuitous profanity. Contributions

US Dems fill inboxes with 419 scams - The Register
Scammers pumping out emails that try to trick recipients into parting with large sums of cash are getting a helping hand from the Democratic National Committee. According to a researcher with anti-spam company Cloudmark, 419 fraudsters have been

Internet turns 40; open access at risk - Jackson Clarion-Ledger
NEW YORK — Goofy videos weren’t on the minds of Len Kleinrock and his team at UCLA when they began tests 40 years ago on what would become the Internet. Neither was social networking, for that matter, nor were most of the other easy-to-use

Less Phishing Spam Registered This Year - Softpedia
Security experts analyzing mail traffic are reporting a significant decline in phishing-related e-mails during the first half of 2009. The drop suggests that this type of activity has become less profitable for cybercrooks, who now prefer other

IBM research shows the overall number of phishing attacks has dropped - DailyTech
A report issued by IBM indicates the overall number of phishing scams declined in the first half of 2009, but that may only mean scammers are picking up new tactics to trick internet users. In the first six months of 2009, phishing totaled just 0.1

More legitimate e-mails being tagged as spam - East Valley Tribune
A. For some reason, more e-mail that I am sending out seems to be getting caught in spam filters, which is a major problem in my business. What am I doing wrong, or what can I do to avoid getting my messages trapped in spam filters? — Gina Q. We

As Internet turns 40, barriers threaten its growth - Herald News
NEW YORK — Goofy videos weren’t on the minds of Len Kleinrock and his team at UCLA when they began tests 40 years ago on what would become the Internet. Neither was social networking, for that matter, nor were most of the other easy-to-use

At 40, the Internet shows signs of losing its idealism - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
G oofy videos weren’t on the minds of Len Kleinrock and his team at UCLA when they began tests 40 years ago on what would become the Internet. Neither was social networking, for that matter, nor were most of the other easy-to-use applications that

BitDefender Offers Twitter Spam Protection Tips - Market Wire
BUCHAREST, ROMANIA–(Marketwire - August 26, 2009) - With the popularity of social networking platforms such as Twitter on the rise, cyber criminals have found an easy target among unsuspecting users. BitDefender, the leading provider of innovative

Voices of Big Sky: Residents Discuss Their Unique Community - Newwest.net
NewWest.Net encourages robust and lively, but civil participation from our readers. By posting here, you agree to the NewWest.Net terms of service . You agree to keep your comments on topic, respectful and free of gratuitous profanity. Contributions

Spam Filter - More legitimate e-mails being tagged … - East Valley Tribune

Sunday, August 30th, 2009

More legitimate e-mails being tagged … - East Valley Tribune

More legitimate e-mails being tagged as spam
East Valley Tribune
With this absurd ratio of “spam to ham” it's no wonder so many messages get mishandled. Set the spam filter too low and lots of junk gets in;

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Web based email providers (free) - Examiner.com

Web based email providers (free)
Examiner.com
A pretty good spam filter keeps the junk out, and you can send rich emails using Yahoo! Mail's HTML editor. fastmail is a great free email service with IMAP

City receives grants for new spam fil… - Beaverton Valley Times

City receives grants for new spam filter and to help police
Beaverton Valley Times
Commission so a brand new “bulk e-mail” (also known in computer vernacular as spam) filter appliance can be installed in the City Hall Data Center.

More legitimate e-mails being tagged … - East Valley Tribune

More legitimate e-mails being tagged as spam
East Valley Tribune
With this absurd ratio of “spam to ham” it's no wonder so many messages get mishandled. Set the spam filter too low and lots of junk gets in;

and more »

Web based email providers (free) - Examiner.com

Web based email providers (free)
Examiner.com
A pretty good spam filter keeps the junk out, and you can send rich emails using Yahoo! Mail's HTML editor. fastmail is a great free email service with IMAP

City receives grants for new spam fil… - Beaverton Valley Times

City receives grants for new spam filter and to help police
Beaverton Valley Times
Commission so a brand new “bulk e-mail” (also known in computer vernacular as spam) filter appliance can be installed in the City Hall Data Center.

Spam Filter - How Spam Filters Think (and how to avoid them) | MailChimp.com

Saturday, August 29th, 2009

How Spam Filters Think (and how to avoid them) | MailChimp.com
Successful email campaigns avoid the spam filter traps. Learn how the spam filters operate and what you need to do to avoid spam filters.

Codeode » Manual - Cactus Spam Filter
Codeode, the developer of the anti-spam program Cactus Spam Filter and the privacy protector Privacy Mantra.

Spam Bully - Email spam filter for Outlook and Outlook Express.
Spam Bully - Email spam filter for Outlook Express and Outlook

How Spam Filters Think (and how to avoid them) | MailChimp.com
Successful email campaigns avoid the spam filter traps. Learn how the spam filters operate and what you need to do to avoid spam filters.

Codeode » Manual - Cactus Spam Filter
Codeode, the developer of the anti-spam program Cactus Spam Filter and the privacy protector Privacy Mantra.

Spam Bully - Email spam filter for Outlook and Outlook Express.
Spam Bully - Email spam filter for Outlook Express and Outlook

Spam Filter - (SPAM) filter

Saturday, August 29th, 2009

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(SPAM) filter
Defender Joined: Jan 16, 2009 Messages: 1373 Offline : Takes time to perfect a spam filter, just like email spam filters. But the important thing is we have some sort of spam

Spam Blocker
Leverage the best spam filtering techniques including Bayesian Filters, Razor, realtime block lists (RBLs), OCR for image spam and tarpitting

Spam Filter for Outlook and Express, Windows Mail, Thunderbird and
SPAMfighter is Europe’s leading Spam Filter developer, providing Spam Protection across the globe for more than 6 million home and corporate users on PC’s and Servers.

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Spam Filter - Music Reviewer’s Blog Suspended For Promoting Music - Tech Dirt

Friday, August 28th, 2009

Music Reviewer’s Blog Suspended For Promoting Music - Tech Dirt
It’s really funny to watch the old record labels try to understand the whole music blogging culture. The folks in the promotions department send music bloggers mp3s and encourage them to post them, knowing that it’ll get the musician attention. That

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Temp: 84.0°F - Hays Daily News
NEW YORK (AP) — Goofy videos weren’t on the minds of Len Kleinrock and his team at UCLA when they began tests 40 years ago on what would become the Internet. Neither was social networking, for that matter, nor were most of the other easy-to-use

Rep. Rehberg, Four Others Hurt in Flathead Boat Crash - Newwest.net
NewWest.Net encourages robust and lively, but civil participation from our readers. By posting here, you agree to the NewWest.Net terms of service . You agree to keep your comments on topic, respectful and free of gratuitous profanity. Contributions

Plesk Admins Can Accidentally Relay Spam - Softpedia
Website administrators using the Parallels Plesk Panel, a web-hosting tool, should be very careful when thinking about activating the shortname authentication feature for all web services. If turned on, attackers could gain access to all shortname

Botnet traffic bounds back 90% within 48 hours of ISP shutdown - Ars Technica
A common way of combating spam traffic is to shut down the service provider through which the traffic is being processed. With a new variety of botnets, though, this method is becoming increasingly ineffective. The August report from Message Labs

Music Reviewer’s Blog Suspended For Promoting Music - Tech Dirt
It’s really funny to watch the old record labels try to understand the whole music blogging culture. The folks in the promotions department send music bloggers mp3s and encourage them to post them, knowing that it’ll get the musician attention. That

Latest News - dBusinessNews.com
RuggedCom RuggedRouter Certified on the Verizon Wireless Network to Provide EV-DO Rev A Service RuggedCom Inc. (“RuggedCom”) (TSX:RCM), a leading provider of rugged communications Free Services and Features Make Verizon Wireless a Great Value

Temp: 84.0°F - Hays Daily News
NEW YORK (AP) — Goofy videos weren’t on the minds of Len Kleinrock and his team at UCLA when they began tests 40 years ago on what would become the Internet. Neither was social networking, for that matter, nor were most of the other easy-to-use

Rep. Rehberg, Four Others Hurt in Flathead Boat Crash - Newwest.net
NewWest.Net encourages robust and lively, but civil participation from our readers. By posting here, you agree to the NewWest.Net terms of service . You agree to keep your comments on topic, respectful and free of gratuitous profanity. Contributions

Plesk Admins Can Accidentally Relay Spam - Softpedia
Website administrators using the Parallels Plesk Panel, a web-hosting tool, should be very careful when thinking about activating the shortname authentication feature for all web services. If turned on, attackers could gain access to all shortname

Botnet traffic bounds back 90% within 48 hours of ISP shutdown - Ars Technica
A common way of combating spam traffic is to shut down the service provider through which the traffic is being processed. With a new variety of botnets, though, this method is becoming increasingly ineffective. The August report from Message Labs

Spam Filter - (SPAM) filter

Friday, August 28th, 2009

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Spam Free Filter - Spam Blocker
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The SpamBouncer: a Procmail-Based Spam Filter
The SpamBouncer is a set of Procmail recipes (filters) for catching, dealing with, and disposing of spam.

Spam Filter for Pine | ITS
New Technology Launches September 9 On September 9 ITS will be implementing a new e-mail filtering service for the campus. To the casual e-mail user the change will be largely

Mailwasher Free Spam Filter Software: The Reliable Free Spam Blocker
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Antair BlackBerry Spam Filter
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Spam Free Filter - Spam Blocker
“This spam filter works!” That’s why thousands of people are using it and more sign up each day How It Works By signing up with your email account information, our servers will

The SpamBouncer: a Procmail-Based Spam Filter
The SpamBouncer is a set of Procmail recipes (filters) for catching, dealing with, and disposing of spam.

Spam Filter for Pine | ITS
New Technology Launches September 9 On September 9 ITS will be implementing a new e-mail filtering service for the campus. To the casual e-mail user the change will be largely

Mailwasher Free Spam Filter Software: The Reliable Free Spam Blocker
Mailwasher is the award winning, reliable, free spam blocker. Providing spam protection for over 8 million users and is featured on CNN and BBC.

Antair BlackBerry Spam Filter
Antair software includes the BlackBerry Spam Filter, BlackBerry Call Screener, BlackBerry E-Mail Auto-Responder and other applications and games.

Spam Filter - Spam Filter for Exchange Server

Friday, August 28th, 2009

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Spam Filter - Spam Blockers - Spam Information and Resources

Thursday, August 27th, 2009

Spam Blockers - Spam Information and Resources
Spam Blockers provides information, advice and resources dedicated to fighting spam. Learn about the origin of spam, famous spammers, their techniques and how to stop spam

Junk Email Filter Spam Blocking Service
Junk Email Filter dot com - Computer Tyme Web Hosting - Front End Spam / Virus Filtering for your Existing Email Server. We filter the spam and viruses and pass the good email on

Spam Filter for Outlook & Outlook Express
Spam Weed is a learning spam filter for POP3 email clients. It’s the most accurate and easy-to-use spam filter in the industry.

SPAMbaffle: A Spam Filter for Qmail
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Barracuda Networks - Worldwide leader in email and Web security
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Spam Filters | freshmeat.net
Spam is a growing problem for email users, and many solutions have been proposed, from a postage fee for email to Turing tests to simply not accepting email from people you don’t

Spam filter software | Anti Spam - SpamUnit
Spam filtering software is available in numerous forms. It can be part of an email client or a plug-in for an existing application. Most

How Spam Filters Think (and how to avoid them) | MailChimp.com
Successful email campaigns avoid the spam filter traps. Learn how the spam filters operate and what you need to do to avoid spam filters.

Spam Blockers - Spam Information and Resources
Spam Blockers provides information, advice and resources dedicated to fighting spam. Learn about the origin of spam, famous spammers, their techniques and how to stop spam

Junk Email Filter Spam Blocking Service
Junk Email Filter dot com - Computer Tyme Web Hosting - Front End Spam / Virus Filtering for your Existing Email Server. We filter the spam and viruses and pass the good email on

Spam Filter for Outlook & Outlook Express
Spam Weed is a learning spam filter for POP3 email clients. It’s the most accurate and easy-to-use spam filter in the industry.

SPAMbaffle: A Spam Filter for Qmail
SPAMbaffle: A SPAM filter for Qmail. Free trial version. User or administrator installable. Start rejecting SPAM in 5 minutes.

Barracuda Networks - Worldwide leader in email and Web security
Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall; Barracuda Message Archiver; Barracuda Backup Service; Barracuda Web Filter; Barracuda Web Application Firewall; Barracuda Load Balancer

Spam Filters | freshmeat.net
Spam is a growing problem for email users, and many solutions have been proposed, from a postage fee for email to Turing tests to simply not accepting email from people you don’t

Spam filter software | Anti Spam - SpamUnit
Spam filtering software is available in numerous forms. It can be part of an email client or a plug-in for an existing application. Most

How Spam Filters Think (and how to avoid them) | MailChimp.com
Successful email campaigns avoid the spam filter traps. Learn how the spam filters operate and what you need to do to avoid spam filters.

Spam Filter - Produce records or go to court, attorneys tell St. Lucie School - Fort Pierce Tribune

Thursday, August 27th, 2009

Produce records or go to court, attorneys tell St. Lucie School - Fort Pierce Tribune
ST. LUCIE COUNTY — A Tallahassee law firm has put the school district on notice that it will be taken to court if it doesn’t promptly produce public records first requested in June about a contract with a computer software company. Attorneys

Plesk Admins Can Accidentally Relay Spam - Softpedia
Website administrators using the Parallels Plesk Panel, a web-hosting tool, should be very careful when thinking about activating the shortname authentication feature for all web services. If turned on, attackers could gain access to all shortname

IBM research shows the overall number of phishing attacks has dropped - DailyTech
A report issued by IBM indicates the overall number of phishing scams declined in the first half of 2009, but that may only mean scammers are picking up new tactics to trick internet users. In the first six months of 2009, phishing totaled just 0.1

Trojan attacks up, phishing attacks down this year, IBM finds - IDG NEWS
Spam-based phishing attacks declined noticeably during the first half of the year, but cyber-criminals may simply be shifting to other technologies found to be more effective in stealing personal data, according to IBM in its semi-annual security

Is sending an e-mail worth a penny to stop spam? - Walletpop.com
A plan by Yahoo to have its e-mail users voluntarily pay a penny for each e-mail they send to help cut down on spam may test the limits of how much — if anything — people are willing to pay for anything on the Internet that is already free. Even

Produce records or go to court, attorneys tell St. Lucie School - Fort Pierce Tribune
ST. LUCIE COUNTY — A Tallahassee law firm has put the school district on notice that it will be taken to court if it doesn’t promptly produce public records first requested in June about a contract with a computer software company. Attorneys

Plesk Admins Can Accidentally Relay Spam - Softpedia
Website administrators using the Parallels Plesk Panel, a web-hosting tool, should be very careful when thinking about activating the shortname authentication feature for all web services. If turned on, attackers could gain access to all shortname

IBM research shows the overall number of phishing attacks has dropped - DailyTech
A report issued by IBM indicates the overall number of phishing scams declined in the first half of 2009, but that may only mean scammers are picking up new tactics to trick internet users. In the first six months of 2009, phishing totaled just 0.1

Trojan attacks up, phishing attacks down this year, IBM finds - IDG NEWS
Spam-based phishing attacks declined noticeably during the first half of the year, but cyber-criminals may simply be shifting to other technologies found to be more effective in stealing personal data, according to IBM in its semi-annual security

Is sending an e-mail worth a penny to stop spam? - Walletpop.com
A plan by Yahoo to have its e-mail users voluntarily pay a penny for each e-mail they send to help cut down on spam may test the limits of how much — if anything — people are willing to pay for anything on the Internet that is already free. Even

Spam Filter - Spam filter software | Anti Spam - SpamUnit

Thursday, August 27th, 2009

Spam filter software | Anti Spam - SpamUnit
Spam filtering software is available in numerous forms. It can be part of an email client or a plug-in for an existing application. Most

Spam filter software | Anti Spam - SpamUnit
Spam filtering software is available in numerous forms. It can be part of an email client or a plug-in for an existing application. Most