America Online to buy anti-spam firm Mailblocks

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AOL Buys Anti-Spam Company Mailblocks
(washingtonpost.com)

AOL Buys Anti-Spam Company Mailblocks
(washingtonpost.com) 08/04/2004 09:54 PM
washingtonpost.com - America Online Inc. said yesterday it has bought a small Silicon Valley e-mail company in a move that could boost the use of an anti-spam technology that many experts regard as the most effective in blocking unwanted messages.

Court Upholds Anti-Spam Law Against Firm

Court Upholds Anti-Spam Law Against Firm 06/30/2004 02:25 PM
AP via Los Angeles Times Jun 30 2004 6:37PM GMT

Symantec to Buy Anti-Spam Firm
Brightmail

Symantec to Buy Anti-Spam Firm
Brightmail 05/19/2004 08:48 PM
Security software maker Symantec announced Wednesday it is acquiring the anti-spam firm Brightmail in a cash deal valued at about $370 million.

Symantec to Buy Anti-Spam Firm for
$370M (AP)

Symantec to Buy Anti-Spam Firm for
$370M (AP) 05/19/2004 06:05 PM
AP - Security software maker Symantec Corp. announced Wednesday it is acquiring the anti-spam firm Brightmail Inc. in a cash deal valued at about $370 million.

Symantec to acquire anti-spam firm
Brightmail for $370 million

Symantec to acquire anti-spam firm
Brightmail for $370 million 05/20/2004 01:21 AM
SiliconValley.com May 20 2004 4:54AM GMT

America Online Reports Drop in Spam

America Online Reports Drop in Spam 12/27/2004 11:33 PM
America Online said that spammers were starting to give up - at least when it came to sending junk to its subscribers.

America Online Employee Arrested In Spam
Scheme

America Online Employee Arrested In Spam
Scheme 06/25/2004 05:47 AM
Komotv.com - Fri Jun 25, 08:32 am GMT

AOL buys Mailblocks to fight spam

AOL buys Mailblocks to fight spam 08/05/2004 05:36 AM
In brief Challenge response

Two arrested in America Online spam
scheme, including AOL employee

Two arrested in America Online spam
scheme, including AOL employee 06/24/2004 04:41 AM
Siouxcityjournal.com - Thu Jun 24, 08:35 am 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.

Anti-Spammers Infiltrate Private Online
Spam Clubs

Anti-Spammers Infiltrate Private Online
Spam Clubs 05/17/2004 04:20 PM

America Online Latin America running low
on cash; may shut down

America Online Latin America running low
on cash; may shut down 03/24/2005 08:13 AM
Thedailycamera.com - Thu Mar 24, 09:19 am GMT

Secure Resolutions Upgrades Their
Anti-Virus Engine to Include
Anti-Spyware, Anti-Adware, Anti-Dialers,
Anti-Hoaxes, Anti-Jokes, and
Anti-Hacking Tools

Secure Resolutions Upgrades Their
Anti-Virus Engine to Include
Anti-Spyware, Anti-Adware, Anti-Dialers,
Anti-Hoaxes, Anti-Jokes, and
Anti-Hacking Tools 06/05/2005 11:14 PM
Secure Resolutions desktop security (Resolution Antivirus™) automatically detects and eliminates all types of viruses, worms, Trojans Horses, dialers, hoaxes, jokes, and hacking tools within a managed desktop security solution. [PRWEB Jun 2, 2005]

Olive Powers Hosting Services with
Anti-virus & Anti-spam

Olive Powers Hosting Services with
Anti-virus & Anti-spam 09/04/2004 03:04 AM
Olive Web Hosting, a full-service division of Olive e-Business, offers a state-of-the-art anti-virus cover, an anti-spam gateway, plus a suite of other features one needs most for robust, secure and hassle-free hosting. [PRWEB Sep 4, 2004]

Anti-Spam Technical Alliance Publishes
Industry Recommendations to Help Stop
Spam

Anti-Spam Technical Alliance Publishes
Industry Recommendations to Help Stop
Spam 06/22/2004 09:17 AM
The Anti-Spam Technical Alliance (ASTA), whose participants include Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., EarthLink and America Online Inc., today unveiled the result of more than a year of close collaboration by presenting a host of detailed best practices and technical recommendations for the entire industry in an effort to fight the scourge of spam.

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

Anti-spam activists targets of
spam-spawning virus

Anti-spam activists targets of
spam-spawning virus 12/06/2003 09:45 AM
Canadian Press Dec 6 2003 9:11AM ET

Anti-Spam Legislation Makes Spam More
Malicious

Anti-Spam Legislation Makes Spam More
Malicious 04/29/2004 01:28 PM
Aren't unintended consequences wonderful? Now that anti-spam legislation is becoming popular, one result is that spammers aren't wasting time with just spamming mortgage offers and ways to buy Viagra. Instead, now that they realize they're definitely on illegal ground, they're moving more towards malicious attack spam, including phishing attacks and trojan horse attacks. In other words, if they're going to break the law with spam, they figure they might as well go all out.

AT&T patents anti anti-spam technology

AT&T patents anti anti-spam technology 11/19/2003 03:54 AM
DoubleClick Nov 19 2003 3:21AM ET

Analyzing AT&T's Anti-Anti-Spam
Patent

Analyzing AT&T's Anti-Anti-Spam
Patent 11/16/2003 02:34 AM
An anonymous reader writes "Dan Gillmor is reporting in his eJournal taken, in turn, from Gregory Aharonian: AT&T has apparently been awarded a patent for ...

Report from the spam/anti-spam summit

Report from the spam/anti-spam summit 04/09/2004 04:05 PM
Danny O'Brien has written up one of the first summits between spammers and spam-fighters for the Guardian. It's a great piece.

Surprisingly, no such shootings occur. It's oddly intimate, watching the spammers and the anti-spammers mill around each other like this. It feels like a temporary ceasefire in a vicious war that to most of us seems to be a stalemate...

Over the past year, though, a series of meetings arranged by a trusted figure in the American anti-spam community, Anne Mitchell, have been slowly bringing the two sides together. These mini-conferences, held under the banner of the Institute for Spam and Internet Public Policy, have mostly been between the highest-ranking ISPs - MSN, AOL - and commercial email marketers of the most squeaky clean kind. Initially in secret, these days the meetings are more public.

Link (via Oblomovka)

Anti-War Protests Across America

Anti-War Protests Across America 06/06/2004 03:20 AM
Free Internet Press Jun 6 2004 7:16AM GMT

Apple and America Online Announce Online
Music Alliance

Apple and America Online Announce Online
Music Alliance 10/29/2003 12:12 AM

CBS to air new "anti-Clinton ad"? ...
[Media Matters for America]

CBS to air new "anti-Clinton ad"? ...
[Media Matters for America] 06/19/2004 01:11 AM
CBS only runs anti-left advocacy ads .. CBS to air new "anti-Clinton ad"? .. Media Matters .. cause

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Spam vs. Anti-Spam: the war escalates!

Spam vs. Anti-Spam: the war escalates! 06/22/2004 02:47 AM
Every time someone introduces a new anti-spam technique, some wily spammer devises a workaround. This myriad of actions and reactions is going to tie our e-mail system in knots. The only real solution to unsolicited mail is to eliminate the problem altogether by stopping spam at the source. To this end, the folks at ImagineNation have proposed an eMstamp solution and have set out to publicly answer the many questions that the proposal has raised. [PRWEB Jun 22, 2004]

Will the new anti-spam legislation cut
spam?

Will the new anti-spam legislation cut
spam? 12/18/2003 02:16 AM
Now the CAN SPAM legislation has passed into law, will it actually cut spam?

Howard Dean & Democracy For America
Raise $220,000 Online for Tom Daschle's
Campaign in 72 Hours; Dems Offer Online
Fundraising for Socially Progressive and
Fiscally Responsible Candidates

Howard Dean & Democracy For America
Raise $220,000 Online for Tom Daschle's
Campaign in 72 Hours; Dems Offer Online
Fundraising for Socially Progressive and
Fiscally Responsible Candidates 09/24/2004 09:35 AM
Governor Howard Dean emailed Democracy for America supporters urging donationsa to Democratic Leader Tom Daschle's campaign. The request was repeated online through the Democracy for America website and blog. The response was over $220,000 in on-line, small dollar contributions to Senator Daschle in just 72 hours. Democracy for America wants to do the same for another United States Senate candidate. This week Democracy for America is hosting an online vote to determine which Senate candidates receive the next appeal from Governor Dean. [PRWEB Sep 24, 2004]

Spamming Travel Firm Sues Anti-Spammer

Spamming Travel Firm Sues Anti-Spammer 03/17/2005 03:26 AM
Here's yet another case of a company accused of spamming getting pretty upset when they're called on it. Someone asked a travel company, named cruise.com, to stop sending him spam. They continued to send him spam. He threatened to sue them under Oklahoma spam laws, and featured them on his website. They turned around and sued him for $4 million for defamation and trademark infringement. They might have trouble on both those claims. First, the guy seems to have the spams pretty well documented, including his repeated attempts to opt-out. It's tough to win a defamation claim when the facts alleged are true. Second, the trademark infringement concerns the use of their logo on his website about them -- but, as has been explained numerous times, trademark law is only to protect against confusion, not to give full rights to the trademark. It's quite unlikely that anyone going to this guy's website about how the company was spamming him would confuse the site as one officially sanctioned by the spamming company.

S Korean Firm Files Anti-trust Suit
Against MS

S Korean Firm Files Anti-trust Suit
Against MS 04/12/2004 08:49 PM
Financial Express Apr 12 2004 11:37PM GMT

Microsoft buys anti-spyware technology
firm

Microsoft buys anti-spyware technology
firm 12/19/2004 03:03 PM
ZDNet Dec 16 2004 5:23PM GMT

Microsoft buys anti-spyware firm Giant

Microsoft buys anti-spyware firm Giant 12/19/2004 02:56 PM
IT-Analysis.com Dec 19 2004 4:59PM GMT

Cool Voice of America censor-buster
b0rked by idiotic anti-pr0n measure

Cool Voice of America censor-buster
b0rked by idiotic anti-pr0n measure 05/03/2004 11:00 AM
The US International Broadcasting Bureau (Voice of America, basically), created a proxy service to allow Chinese, Iranians and other oppressed people to circumvent their national firewalls, relaying forbidden pages behind the silicon curtains. However, the IBB decided to kowtow to unknown bluenoses and install a filter that would block foreigners from gaining access to pr0n: to do this, they came up with the bright idea of blocking any URL that contained naughty words. This is a stupid, stupid idea:

IBB's list includes "ass" (which inadvertently bans usembassy.state.gov), "breast" (breastcancer.com), "hot" (hotmail.com and hotels.com), "pic" (epic.noaa.gov) and "teen" (teens.drugabuse.gov).

Link

Anti-Virus Firm Admits MyDoom Impact
Exaggerated

Anti-Virus Firm Admits MyDoom Impact
Exaggerated 02/10/2004 02:41 AM
Last week we noted that anti-virus companies were putting out press releases including ridicul ously high estimates for the amount of "damages" done by the myDoom virus - and refusing to give any info to back up the claims. Now, however, in a surprising move, another anti-virus firm, TruSecure is admitting that many exaggerated the impact of the virus, which they say really wasn't that big of a deal. They still say that the virus did plenty of damage, but suggest that the reactions from many overstated how much damage was really done.

Anti-virus firm McAfee sets up India
centre (AFP)

Anti-virus firm McAfee sets up India
centre (AFP) 07/21/2004 01:04 PM
AFP - McAfee Inc announced it was setting up a research team, its third largest globally, in India's technology hub of Bangalore to fight computer viruses, spam and worms.

Aussie PM hires firm to spam electorate

Aussie PM hires firm to spam electorate 08/27/2004 02:07 PM

Microsoft sues German firm over spam

Microsoft sues German firm over spam 06/22/2005 02:18 AM
Microsoft has launched a case against a German man believed to be the linchpin of a spam gang.

The software maker's legal complaint was lodged against an unnamed company in the North Rhine-Westphalia region of Germany and its managing director, according to a statement (in German) on the Microsoft Germany Web site. Microsoft alleges that the company sent out millions of spam e-mail messages advertising Web site design services, online casinos and pornography.

News source: C|Net News.com

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Security Firm Warns of Spam That Spies

Security Firm Warns of Spam That Spies 04/14/2004 06:23 AM

South Korean firm files anti-trust suit
against Microsoft

South Korean firm files anti-trust suit
against Microsoft 04/12/2004 03:41 AM
AFP via Yahoo! Apr 12 2004 7:38AM GMT

South Korean firm files anti-trust suit
against Microsoft (AFP)

South Korean firm files anti-trust suit
against Microsoft (AFP) 04/12/2004 02:11 AM
AFP - South Korea's top Internet portal has filed an anti-trust suit against US software giant Microsoft, alleging it broke fair trade rules by bundling its instant messenger service with its Windows XP platform.
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