Microsoft Scores Points Against Competitors With Spam Fighting Initiative

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Microsoft Details Spam Fighting Plans

Microsoft Details Spam Fighting Plans 05/05/2004 03:35 PM

Microsoft spam-fighting proposal
rejected

Microsoft spam-fighting proposal
rejected 09/19/2004 09:40 AM
CNEWS Sep 19 2004 2:14PM GMT

Fight night scores on points

Fight night scores on points 07/06/2004 12:15 PM
BBC Sport reviews the hard-hitting boxing title Fight Night 2004.

Fighting in Najaf Kills Scores of
Rebels, U.S. Military Says

Fighting in Najaf Kills Scores of
Rebels, U.S. Military Says 04/27/2004 11:30 AM
It was one of the heaviest battles with a radical cleric's militia so far; In Falluja, Marines planned joint patrols with Iraqis.

Maverik Proves Prophetic Using
GuidedChoice™ Advice in Managed Accounts
- One Year Later, Positive Enrollment
Scores Points

Maverik Proves Prophetic Using
GuidedChoice™ Advice in Managed Accounts
- One Year Later, Positive Enrollment
Scores Points 09/15/2004 02:00 AM
Advice for 401(k) participants becomes more accessible as firms like Maverik Country Stores adopt managed accounts solutions. Provider GuidedChoice offers much needed personalized retirement planning in a cost-effective online, automated format that meets all fiduciary requirements. [PRWEB Sep 15, 2004]

Symantec Brightmail Anti-Spam v6.0
delivers next-generation spam-fighting
power, control to enterprises

Symantec Brightmail Anti-Spam v6.0
delivers next-generation spam-fighting
power, control to enterprises 07/01/2004 10:20 PM
Sunday Times South Africa Jul 2 2004 2:42AM GMT

New Anti-spam Initiative Gaining
Traction

New Anti-spam Initiative Gaining
Traction 02/12/2004 04:51 PM
The Sender Policy Framework would prevent the spoofing of e-mail addresses and hijacking of SMTP servers, common tactics used by spammers to remain anonymous.

Fighting spam with insults?

Fighting spam with insults? 06/01/2004 03:50 AM
One of my many domains have been used by spammers for a while. Unfortunately its not much I can do about it, without spending a...

Fighting spam: Opting out is in

Fighting spam: Opting out is in 06/23/2004 01:13 AM
Straits Times Jun 23 2004 5:26AM GMT

Fighting comment spam

Fighting comment spam 02/01/2005 08:40 PM
Jay Allen has written a very nice document on how to fight comment spam Jay Allen should know a thing or two about comment spam. Before joing Six Apart he wrote the now famous MT-Blacklist plugin for Movable Type. If...

New Google Spam Fighting

New Google Spam Fighting 03/11/2003 01:22 AM
WebmasterWorld: Good news about expired domains. ``We've also put more of a focus on algorithmic improvements for spam issues. One resulting improvement with this index is better handling of expired domains--the authority for a domain will be reset when a domain expires, even though dangling links to the expired domain are still out on the web. We'll be rolling this change in over the next few months starting with this index. [...] I think you'll see more emphasis at Google on scalable algorithms rather than responding to individual spam reports.'' Basically, when you buy a domain that previously expired, you won't get the PageRank the old domain's owner accrued. Neat idea....

Fighting Spam with Digital IDs

Fighting Spam with Digital IDs 12/05/2002 07:49 PM
Jon Udell on the pitfalls of permission-based spam filters: If we rule out spontaneous association then we will not have...

Fighting spam on Linux

Fighting spam on Linux 07/15/2004 03:08 AM

Fighting Spam with DNA Sequencing
Algorithms

Fighting Spam with DNA Sequencing
Algorithms 08/22/2004 08:18 AM

Guide for Fighting Comment Spam

Guide for Fighting Comment Spam 01/04/2005 08:15 PM
Call it a late holiday gift or a great way to start the new year. In either case, we are...

Think Spam Is Tough? Try Fighting Spim

Think Spam Is Tough? Try Fighting Spim 06/08/2004 06:58 PM
Internet.com Jun 8 2004 9:51PM GMT

Step one in comment spam fighting

Step one in comment spam fighting 11/14/2003 10:54 PM
One of the drawbacks to rolling your own weblog software is that any time you want to add a feature you have to do it yourself.

For instance, I’ve wished a few times that I could use Jay Allen’s MT-Blacklist plugin. It would make it easier to fight comment spam.

(I have very good reasons for sticking with my own weblog software. I’m not going to change; please don’t suggest it.)

However, my software has a feature that would be cool to see in other weblog software, so I wanted to mention it: there’s an RSS feed that shows the last n comments, no matter which post they’re in reply to.

This means that no comment spam appears, even in very old posts, that I don’t see. I still have to go to the trouble of deleting it—but it’s much better than not knowing about it.

It may be that some other weblog software packages already have this feature. If so—cool. If yours doesn’t have this feature, you might want to consider it. I totally rely on it myself (and not just for fighting comment spam).

You might say—well, my weblog software does email notifications of comments, so an RSS feed of recent comments isn’t needed.

And I’d reply—well, my software has email notifications too. I found that I hardly ever looked at them. In amongst all the other email noise, comments notifications don’t work that well.

But an RSS feed for recent comments works wonderfully.

Microsoft, Sony Announce iPod
Competitors

Microsoft, Sony Announce iPod
Competitors 05/27/2004 06:35 PM

Fractured Realities: Fighting Against
Comment Spam

Fractured Realities: Fighting Against
Comment Spam 02/01/2005 09:14 PM
In a new posting over on Fractured Realities (Davey Shafik's weblog) today, he talks more about the eternal struggle these days with that menace of weblogs everywhere - comment spam.

Spam fighting hurts legitimate business?

Spam fighting hurts legitimate business? 04/09/2004 04:10 PM

Do We Need A Hybrid Approach To Fighting
Spam And Viruses?

Do We Need A Hybrid Approach To Fighting
Spam And Viruses? 05/07/2004 12:11 PM
There's an ongoing battle about how to best fight threats like spam and viruses (and spyware and trojans and worms, etc...). Some think that it should be at the network level, where an ISP or a company can set up filters, while others believe it needs to be at the desktop. In an interview with the CTO for MessageLabs (makers of "managed email security products" - so you know where his bias is) he makes the compelling case for moving the protection up to the network level (of course, he means using MessageLabs' solution). His argument is that you can keep filters much more up-to-date at the network level, even to the point of updating them multiple times per day. It also removes the hassle of end-users getting anywhere near some of these malicious files - some of which use social engineering tricks to get users to do things they shouldn't. Of course, he's only telling half the story. Blocking at the network level is increasingly becoming a necessity, but it assumes that users always access the internet in the same way. These days, with laptops and things like WiFi, people access the internet from many different places, and you don't always know who's managing the network protection. You also don't know who might be connecting to your local network - and what sort of nasty stuff they've already been exposed to. It seems that a hybrid approach is going to become increasingly important. Some have said the trend needs to move from "scan and block" to "comply and connect" - which may represent the hybrid approach that things are heading towards. You allow most of the filtering to still occur on the network, but you don't allow an individual machine to connect to a network unless it's been shown to "comply" with whatever security policies have been established. While more corporate users are moving in this direction, it may be time for residential broadband service providers to look at providing similar solutions themselves. The issue, as always, is how much control people are willing to give their service providers. No one wants to be denied a connection because suddenly their ISP says they haven't complied with some weird security aspect that the user knows they have complied with. However, as these malicious attacks get worse, it's likely that we're going to move closer to a world where getting on the network is going to mean proving you're clean, while network level machines will be required to block out the nastiest attacks.

Latest ideas for fighting spam not the
greatest

Latest ideas for fighting spam not the
greatest 03/06/2004 01:55 AM
SiliconValley.com Feb 25 2004 11:47AM GMT

AOL buys Mailblocks in spam-fighting
effort

AOL buys Mailblocks in spam-fighting
effort 08/04/2004 12:59 PM
America Online Inc. (AOL) has snapped up Web-based e-mail company Mailblocks Inc. in an effort to bolster its own e-mail services with greater antispam protection, mail management, and interface improvements, it said Wednesday.

Messenger Spam Senders Fighting Back
Against FTC

Messenger Spam Senders Fighting Back
Against FTC 12/09/2003 05:03 PM
Last month the FTC decided that it was time to crack down on the issue of Windows Messenger spam - which had been getting some attention lately. Messenger spam has nothing to do with instant messaging, but with the Windows Messenger product that is used by network admins and such to alert computer users of important things ("our network is going down for five minutes" or something like that). Most home computers (and many work computers) have no need to have this feature turned on - but many still do and spammers were exploiting that. When the FTC decided to crack down they took action against one company that had been known to send the messages every ten minutes in some cases. It turns out the company is run by two college kids who are now (surprisingly) fight ing back against the FTC. Part of the claim against them was that their spam messages were touting software that could block these messages. As someone points out, it's a bit like "vandals throwing bricks through windows to sell home-security systems." The defense from the kids is that (a) they weren't doing anything illegal by sending out these spam messages (b) the messages did no damage and (c) the software they were selling actually did block those messages. Thus, they say that using messenger spam was actually a good way of targeting customers who needed their software. Of course, they leave out is that you don't actually need any software to turn off the Messenger feature. Their lawyer is also painting them as "good kids" who would never do anything harmful. They might have a case. As much as I believe they knew exactly what they were doing in annoying the hell out of a lot of people, it is questionable whether or not it was illegal.

2 Microsoft Competitors Address
Antitrust Hearing in Europe

2 Microsoft Competitors Address
Antitrust Hearing in Europe 11/15/2003 01:07 AM
New York Times Nov 15 2003 0:45AM ET

Microsoft to make it easier for
competitors to compete... but are they
interested?

Microsoft to make it easier for
competitors to compete... but are they
interested? 01/17/2004 11:01 PM
Continuing its evaluation of Microsoft's compliance with the anti-trust settlement reached in 2002, the US Department of Justice said yesterday that Microsoft has "fallen short" of the requirements, but they also noted that Microsoft is making changes.

Industry Alliance Touts Authentication
in Fighting Spam

Industry Alliance Touts Authentication
in Fighting Spam 06/22/2004 03:46 PM
AOL, Earthlink, Microsoft and Yahoo publish a plan for making the Internet more hostile to unsolicited e-mail through authentication based on IP domains and content signing.

Community Spam Fighting Effort Faces
Heat

Community Spam Fighting Effort Faces
Heat 12/19/2004 03:37 PM

XNA For All?Microsoft VP Peter Moore
calls upon competitors to use
Microsoft's' XNA model for gam

XNA For All?Microsoft VP Peter Moore
calls upon competitors to use
Microsoft's' XNA model for gam 06/10/2004 06:33 AM
Gigex Jun 10 2004 10:35AM GMT

Microsoft Starts Up XP Starter Edition
August 11 - 9:00 PM ET Microsoft has
expanded its initiative to provide

Microsoft Starts Up XP Starter Edition
August 11 - 9:00 PM ET Microsoft has
expanded its initiative to provide 08/11/2004 09:00 PM
BetaNews Aug 12 2004 1:11AM GMT

Have People Lost A Fighting Spirit
Against Spam Or Is Pew Faking The Data
Again?

Have People Lost A Fighting Spirit
Against Spam Or Is Pew Faking The Data
Again? 04/11/2005 05:58 AM
According to the folks at Pew (who are suffering from a credi bility hit these days), people are growing accustomed to spam. It still annoys people to no end, but it's just become so common that people have given up thinking about it or fighting against it, and just think of it as an annoying fact of life, like traffic. Of course, it's not really clear that the data actually says this. Basically, this conclusion appears to be driven by two stats: (1) people trust email less but (2) they're not reading less email -- sort of. The study actually says 22% of people say they are spending less time on email because of spam, which is down from 29% the year before. However, it's a bit of a stretch to conclude from this one data point that people are resigned to spam. It could mean that email simply has become more important in other aspects. Or, it could mean that most of the people who were really annoyed by spam decreased their email usage last year instead of this year. The problem with the data is that you can't really compare the rate of change this year to last year, because (obviously) they're starting from a different position. Most importantly, this could just be an indication that spam filters have become more effective. It wouldn't be surprising to find out that many people have become resigned to spam -- but the data shown here doesn't actually seem to prove that at all.

Symantec Buys Brightmail - A Step
Towards Hybrid Spam Fighting

Symantec Buys Brightmail - A Step
Towards Hybrid Spam Fighting 05/19/2004 05:48 PM
We've talked in the past about how the ways to fight all that ails your computer are converging. Symantec is realizing this, and has decided to to buy anti-spam firm Brightmail for $370 million. Symantec was already an investor in the company and owned approximately 11%. However, it does demonstrate that a single approach to fighting things like spam no longer makes sense. You can't just have a network level protection system or a desktop level protection. Increasingly, computer security requires something of a hybrid model - and this acquisition supports that idea.

Fighting comment spam, linking without
google juice and other reasons to use
the new href attribute

Fighting comment spam, linking without
google juice and other reasons to use
the new href attribute 02/01/2005 08:40 PM
Fighting blog spam, allowing linking to people you don't like without giving them Googlejuice. The new link attribute has many applications. Most like it, but some think its a bad idea.

Lindows Scores Dutch Win over Microsoft

Lindows Scores Dutch Win over Microsoft 05/29/2004 12:14 AM
Enterprise Linux I.T. May 29 2004 3:53AM GMT

University of Delaware Chooses Roaring
Penguin Software’s CanIt-PRO, Gives
End-Users Control Over Fighting E-Mail
Spam

University of Delaware Chooses Roaring
Penguin Software’s CanIt-PRO, Gives
End-Users Control Over Fighting E-Mail
Spam 07/06/2004 03:36 AM
Positive experience using robust MIMEDefang software leads networking and systems group to upgrade to commercial product. [PRWEB Jul 6, 2004]

Microsoft, Bahrain, SME initiative

Microsoft, Bahrain, SME initiative 04/10/2005 12:32 AM
AME Info Apr 10 2005 3:59AM GMT

Antispam framework scores Microsoft
endorsement

Antispam framework scores Microsoft
endorsement 05/25/2004 04:13 PM

Lindows Scores Dutch Win over Microsoft
(NewsFactor)

Lindows Scores Dutch Win over Microsoft
(NewsFactor) 05/28/2004 05:02 PM
NewsFactor - Lindows is celebrating its victory in the latest round in its trademark battle with Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT). The Amsterdam District Court ruled Thursday that the U.S.-based Linux distributor can retain its name for general corporate uses in the Netherlands.

Microsoft 'XP Reloaded' Initiative Gets
Reloaded

Microsoft 'XP Reloaded' Initiative Gets
Reloaded 04/18/2005 02:41 PM
Redmond's newly minted 'Start Something' campaign, like its Reloaded predecessor, is all about growing Windows XP sales.
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