The first line of defense against spam is a set of remote blocking lists that are maintained by various spam-fighting organizations. Spam that is not blocked based on its source then hits our second ...

Spam filters are often a huge source of frustration for small business owners. While filters can prevent a deluge of electronic junk mail from clogging inboxes, they can suddenly stop working, miss ...

[Editor’s Note: Denise Pappalardo is off today. In place of her newsletter we present this news story from the Service Provider Networks section of Network World Fusion. Enjoy.] John Knapp, executive ...

If Gmail’s spam and newsletter filters are letting too much slip through, or if you use a private email service with a bad spam filter, then try this solution: quarantine all email until the sender ...

A little over a year ago, Verizon rolled out a spam call filter service within its paid Call Filter upgrade. Today, the company announced that the Verizon spam call filter will soon be available to ...

As the arms race between spammers and spam-blockers continues, the automatic spam flag is a crucial yet finicky tool for separating the wheat from the chaff. Nowadays, spam filters come standard on ...

Over the years, scammers have become very inventive in their efforts to swindle you out of your money, privacy, security and sanity. They have pretended to be everything from your family, friends, ...

Verizon, one of the four major cellular carriers in the United States, today announced the launch of a new free version of its Call Filter service that will identify, filter, and block incoming spam ...

A new anti-spam service launched with much fanfare this week is facing some technical hurdles out of the gate and frustration from the community it relies on to fight junk mail. The software, launched ...

A little over a year ago I was faced with a spam filtering problem, but it’s not what you might expect. I had been using the paid Postini service for filtering spam sent through my domain, when Google ...

This week has not been good for Outlook users as the renowned service has been struggling with high spam levels. Reports have been coming from all regions, suggesting a major issue with the company's ...