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Spam-filters bounce email about
spam-filters

Spam-filters bounce email about
spam-filters 01/19/2004 01:55 PM
Spam-filters are trained to catch anything that looks like spam, including discussions of spam and spam-filters.

"Patterns of e-mail use are definitely being impacted both by spam and by antispam filters," said Craig Hughes, chief architect at McAfee Security and co-developer of the open-source SpamAssassin spam-filter project.

"I myself run into the problem all the time, mainly because what I'm corresponding about frequently involves discussions of spam or particular spam strategies..."

"I've lost count of the number of e-mails that get bounced back thanks to spam filters getting triggered by completely innocent words and phrases," said Suresh Ramasubramanian, head of security and antispam operations for managed mail-services firm Outblaze.

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Bagle Virus Riding on the Coattails of
Spam; Deceiving Spam and Virus Filters

Bagle Virus Riding on the Coattails of
Spam; Deceiving Spam and Virus Filters 08/12/2004 02:51 AM
Spam Inspector Software Developers Working to Stay Ahead of Bagle to Keep Users Protected [PRWEB Aug 12, 2004]

How .Mac filters spam

How .Mac filters spam 05/14/2004 01:37 PM
A recent knowledge base entry describes in fairly good detail how spam is filtered from .Mac accounts. According to Apple uses software from Brightmail along with list-based filtering. Apparently Apple also does something on their own:

.Mac also monitors all incoming message activity for trends. This information can reveal a previously unknown source of spam when they begin to send mail to members of the .Mac community.

It's an interesting look behind .Mac. For our .Mac using readers: how good is the spam blocking?

Spam Filters & .NET 2003 COM Add-Ins

Spam Filters & .NET 2003 COM Add-Ins 05/19/2004 05:39 PM
DDJ May 19 2004 9:02PM GMT

MIT Spam Conference looks beyond
filters.

MIT Spam Conference looks beyond
filters. 01/17/2004 10:45 PM
InfoWorld: MIT Spam Conference looks beyond filters. The webcast archives from the conference are available.

MIT Spam Conference looks beyond filters

MIT Spam Conference looks beyond filters 01/17/2004 10:42 PM
CAMBRIDGE, MASS. - Leading researchers into spam e-mail, along with some of its victims, gathered on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Friday for the second annual MIT Spam Conference.

Oriental Spam Fools Filters

Oriental Spam Fools Filters 09/21/2004 05:05 AM
TechTree Sep 21 2004 9:51AM GMT

Anti-Spam Filters, ISPs, and the Law

Anti-Spam Filters, ISPs, and the Law 06/10/2004 02:47 AM
Why should we let ISPs dictate the source and content of the e-mail they allow us to receive? That's the question posed by ImagineNation in a recent white paper on mail filters and the consequences of ISPs using mail filters and other schemes to block spam mail. The white paper is a free report from the company available at http://eMstamp.org/Documents/ [PRWEB Jun 10, 2004]

Can't Avoid Anti-Spam Filters

Can't Avoid Anti-Spam Filters 04/28/2004 11:40 AM
While there are still many problems with spam filtering technology, most corporate IT staff say that they c ouldn't manage without anti-spam technology. The problem is that there are so many different spam filtering technologies out there, and it's difficult to know which ones work well. While some say that eventual consolidation in the industry should sort out the mess, most companies don't have time to wait around for that to happen.

Beware free spam filters

Beware free spam filters 01/18/2004 07:03 AM

Spam Filters and Collateral Damage

Spam Filters and Collateral Damage 01/24/2004 12:35 PM
I just had an instant message from someone who has been trying to send me an e-mail, but found it blocked by what he called my company's "fascist virus scanning system." I directed him to a different address, a personal one that allowed the message to come through. I examined it and have no clue what word in the text (there was no file attachment) could have tripped the filter.

E-texts used against Bayesian
spam-filters

E-texts used against Bayesian
spam-filters 12/02/2003 07:37 AM
Bayesian anti-spam filters count word-frequency in suspect and compare the results to profiles of word-frequency in spam and ham. Defeating this requires that your spam include a lot of natural human prose. So spammers have started to mine the Gutenberg Project and other sources of human-generated ASCII and dumping random hunks of literature into their messages to get around the filters.

Blogger and journalist Clive Thompson found an excerpt from Chapter 20 of The Master Key by Wizard of Oz author L Frank Baum in a message that had as its subject line "the big unit" (no prizes for guessing what the rest of it was hawking).

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Firms won't pay extra for spam filters

Firms won't pay extra for spam filters 06/09/2004 05:59 AM
vnunet.com Jun 9 2004 9:47AM GMT

Testing Gmail's Spam filters

Testing Gmail's Spam filters 06/14/2004 11:32 AM
Ever wonder how long it takes to fill 1GB of mail space with spam? Aaron Pratt ( prattboy@gmail.com ) is trying to find out. He has asked people to give his email out to as many newsletters, spammers, any kind of annoying mail that he can recieve. You can see some of his results here (mirror) More…

Spam Filters Grab Good With Bad

Spam Filters Grab Good With Bad 01/19/2004 07:20 AM
The growing use of antispam filters that weed out messages containing words commonly used by junk e-mailers is forcing legitimate e-mail senders to choose their language carefully. By Michelle Delio.

Two Spam Filters 10 Times As Accurate As
Humans

Two Spam Filters 10 Times As Accurate As
Humans 05/31/2004 06:41 PM
Slashdot - 5 hours ago ... I'm on the subject of mail, what is a good all in one mail bundle with webbased interface that isn't opengroupware or ms exchange for php/apache under unix? ...

University Capitulates, Switches Off
Spam Filters

University Capitulates, Switches Off
Spam Filters 05/23/2004 08:57 PM

Spam Wars: Filters Strike Back

Spam Wars: Filters Strike Back 11/04/2003 06:25 AM
Until now, antispam developers and their products have played defense only. But now, one activist wants spam filters to automatically launch attacks against suspected spammers' sites to shut them down. By Amit Asaravala.

Extreme Spam Filtering – When Filters
and Blacklists Are Not Enough.

Extreme Spam Filtering – When Filters
and Blacklists Are Not Enough. 02/07/2005 01:05 AM
Protect Multiple POP, Yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail, or IMAP E-mail Accounts from Spammers with 0Spam.com. Compatible with all E-mail clients and operating systems. [PRWEB Feb 6, 2005]

Copyrighted Haiku Delivers Spam Through
Filters

Copyrighted Haiku Delivers Spam Through
Filters 01/19/2004 05:00 AM

Microsoft updates Outlook 2003 Spam
Filters

Microsoft updates Outlook 2003 Spam
Filters 12/16/2003 12:33 PM
Microsoft has updated it's virus filters to help users catch a higher percentage of spam. [Microsoft]...

Usenix: 'Arms race' between spammers,
spam filters under way

Usenix: 'Arms race' between spammers,
spam filters under way 06/28/2004 04:24 PM
Classifying e-mail as "good" or "junk" before it's sent to be scanned by spam filters could speed up the delivery of legitimate e-mail, according to a paper presented today at the 2004 Usenix Annual Technical Conference.

Bulk E-Mail Fees Near As Spam Filters
Fail (Boo)

Bulk E-Mail Fees Near As Spam Filters
Fail (Boo) 02/17/2004 06:09 AM

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Comdex: Microsoft builds spam filters
into Exchange

Comdex: Microsoft builds spam filters
into Exchange 11/14/2003 05:14 PM
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates will use his keynote address at the Comdex 2003 trade show to tout the company's Exchange Intelligent Message Filter.

Wired News: Spam Wars: Filters Strike
Back

Wired News: Spam Wars: Filters Strike
Back 11/05/2003 06:25 AM
How about stopping them by attacking them back .. Spam Wars: Filters Strike Back .. getting nasty

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TMO Reports - Third-party Spam Filters
Reap Apple Mail Woes

TMO Reports - Third-party Spam Filters
Reap Apple Mail Woes 02/19/2004 11:38 AM
Hodges and many other Mail users are turning to other alternatives to manage their junk mail and still use Apple's Mail application, despite its un-repaired problems. To the rescue has come a number of third-party spam filters that work together with Apple Mail using an AppleScript command, which sends a mail message to the separate filter to be checked. The mail is then re-routed back to Mail using AppleScript to be deposited in either a junk mail folder or in a regular e-mail in-box.

Wainwright Consulting, a Minnesota-based
Technology Consulting Services Company,
Announces Deal to Provide Infrastructure
Support for Vocallogic's VoIP Services

Wainwright Consulting, a Minnesota-based
Technology Consulting Services Company,
Announces Deal to Provide Infrastructure
Support for Vocallogic's VoIP Services 03/19/2005 02:20 AM
Wainwright Consulting, a Minnesota-based technology consulting firm, and Vocallogic, a worldwide provider of Voice over IP services and technology, today announced that the two companies have signed a new teaming agreement to jointly pursue opportunities in the small business PBX and VoIP market. [PRWEB Mar 18, 2005]

Canadiens Dodge Elimination to KO Bruins
(AP)

Canadiens Dodge Elimination to KO Bruins
(AP) 04/19/2004 09:53 PM
AP - The Montreal Canadiens wrecked the playoffs for the Boston Bruins again, in the most stunning fashion ever in their storied rivalry.

Now We Need A Company To Tell Us When
Our Email Is Spam Too

Now We Need A Company To Tell Us When
Our Email Is Spam Too 01/09/2004 09:50 PM
It's really quite impressive how many other businesses spam has generated. There are all the anti-spam companies, and now there's even a company that will monitor if your (one assumes) legitimate email is being called spam. Return Path has a bunch of email accounts at major ISPs and signed up for various spam blocking services. They also monitor all the various blacklists - and will alert you (if you're a big company and you pay them money) if your emails are getting stopped by a spam blocker. They'll also tell you why and make suggestions on how to de-spamify your email. Anyone else think things are getting even more ridiculous when you have to pay a company to make sure your perfectly legitimate email isn't being blocked?

A Matter of Substance OmniMedia Unveils
P2P Piracy Elimination Platform

A Matter of Substance OmniMedia Unveils
P2P Piracy Elimination Platform 06/22/2005 02:46 AM
A Matter of Substance OmniMedia is partnering with Intent MediaWorks to launch its "Piracy Prevention Platform." It is a state of the art encryption, tracking, and distribution system built to stop the theft of music and films through the Internet. [PRWEB Jun 22, 2005]

FTC charges company with using Windows
to spam with pop-up ads

FTC charges company with using Windows
to spam with pop-up ads 11/06/2003 06:10 PM
The tactic involved the Windows Messenger Service, a software feature that allows network administrators to send messages to users.

The Anti-Spam Company Conflict

The Anti-Spam Company Conflict 11/05/2003 01:14 PM
You always have to wonder about businesses that are based on the premise that, if they're really successfully in what they do, you won't need them any more. That's certainly the case with anti-spam companies, who are apparently making pretty good money these days. While I'm sure that the vast majority of them do mean well, and plenty of their tools work very well in stamping out spam - you do have to wonder about their incentives to really stop spam. If spam were stopped, then these companies wouldn't have much of a reason for being in business any more. In other words, the more successful they are, the less successful they will be. That's a tough business proposition for any company.

Web Services Company Targets Exchange

Web Services Company Targets Exchange 01/27/2004 01:17 AM
A small software maker is hoping to take a bite out of Microsoft's Exchange by courting small businesses that want to do e-mail on the cheap. The new mail application will be included with BlueTie Server software, enabling small businesses to offer a full desktop e-mail experience without the expense of maintaining their own server, BlueTie CEO David Koretz said. A Microsoft representative did not immediately respond to requests for comment. The company last year began selling a server software package, including Exchange, aimed at small businesses.

Web services company targets Exchange

Web services company targets Exchange 01/26/2004 07:35 PM
A small Web services provider is hoping to take a bite out of Microsoft's Exchange by courting small businesses that want to do e-mail on the cheap.

Company warns of bugged spam messages

Company warns of bugged spam messages 04/13/2004 03:41 PM
Hidden code in e-mail messages is increasingly being used to track the success of unsolicited commercial ("spam") e-mail campaigns, according to a warning by an antispam technology company on Tuesday.

Microsoft Suing Spam Hosting Company

Microsoft Suing Spam Hosting Company 09/23/2004 11:28 PM
The latest in a long line of anti-spam lawsuits filed by Microsoft targets one of those companies claiming to offer "bulletproof" spam hosting via servers in China. Apparently, we'll find out if bulletproof also means lawsuit proof. If Microsoft can get this company taken offline, expect to see many more similar lawsuits targeting these companies.

Symantec to buy anti-spam company
(SiliconValley.com)

Symantec to buy anti-spam company
(SiliconValley.com) 05/20/2004 08:47 AM
SiliconValley.com - Symantec, seeking to broaden its software technology to battle the growing flood of junk e-mail, announced Wednesday that it is paying $370 million in cash for anti-spam company Brightmail.

Microsoft Sues Webhosting Company Over
Spam

Microsoft Sues Webhosting Company Over
Spam 09/24/2004 11:38 AM
"This is the first action against a Web host catering to spammers," Kornblum said, "they're providing a safe place for spammers to drive customers to."

Baan Founder Launches New Web Services
Company

Baan Founder Launches New Web Services
Company 09/17/2004 12:10 PM
Jan Baan's latest venture, Cordys, takes aim at SAP with a Web services-based platform for creating composite applications.
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