Anti Spam Software & Internet Filters Blog - Securence

Battle Against Spam Shifts to Containment

According to a news story in BusinessWeek, there is a new strategy in the spam battle. It's called containment.

In fact, filters for blocking junk e-mail from inboxes have improved so much that doing much more will needlessly kill legitimate e-mail. And so e-mail gatekeepers are shifting gears. Now they're getting more aggressive at keeping spam from leaving their systems in the first place.

Full article at BusinessWeek

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Mozilla Spam Fools the Net Savvy

We learned today of a new spam campaign taking advantage of the Mozilla browser, fooling users into downloading a virus.

According to the news report, which apperaed in SC Magazine, "the spam appears as a message telling the recipient that their website is incompatible with Mozilla-based browsers and asks the reader to fix the problem."

Full article at SC Magazine

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New Spam Campaign Exploting Death of Pope John Paull II

BEWARE!!! We just learned of a new spam campaign that is taking advantage of people's interest in and grief over the death of Pope John Paul II, whose funeral was held Friday, April 8. According to our sources, the spam claims to offer readers a free collection of books written by the late pope. The email goes on to ask users to click on a link to receive the gift. However, the link actually takes them to a Web site offering ''free money-making advice."

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Cracking Down on Spam; State, FTC Employ New Law Against E-mail Company

Deceptive email practices are not going unnoticed in the sunshine state, especially in the Bay area.

A federal judge, acting under recent federal and state anti-spam laws, slapped a restraining order Wednesday on a Los Angeles-area company accused by regulators of flooding computers with deceptively labeled e-mails.

Full article at San Francisco Chronicle

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Spam Gets the Big 'Ho-Hum'

Based on a study released Sunday by the Pew Internet and American Life Project, Internet users are not necessarily less annoyed by spam, they're just more accepting of it.

Fifty-three percent of adult e-mail users in the United States now say they trust e-mail less because of spam, down from 62 percent a year ago and about the same as a June 2003 Pew survey.

Pew also found that 22 percent of e-mail users say they are spending less time on e-mail because of spam, down from 29 percent last year. In 2003, it was 25 percent.

Full article at Pioneer Press

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