Popular open source spam filter gets boost
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| SpamAssassin, popular open source spam-filtering software, will have deadlier
| aim thanks to an add-on tool that is being offered free of charge to small
| businesses and individuals by MailChannels.
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| The tool -- called Traffic Control 3 -- is an e-mail traffic-shaping package
| that slows down the transmission of spam into corporate e-mail systems.
| MailChannels officials say Traffic Control 3 will reduce spam volumes by 50%
| to 75% for SpamAssassin users.
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http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/051908-spamassassin.html
Recent:
Microsoft has duty to fight malware says expert
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| Why is Microsoft not doing this? Marketing, Abrams said, and tech support
| costs too.
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http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/news.nv?storyid=single10763
Bots rule in cyberspace
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| USA TODAY REPORTS that on an average day, 40 per cent of the 800 million
| computers connected to the Internet are bots used to send out spam, viruses
| and to mine for sensitive personal data.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/03/17/bots-rule-cyberspace
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/computersecurity/2008-03-16-computer-botnets_N.htm
Botnets Running Rampant
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| How much money is being stolen by cybercriminals? No one knows, and no one
| even knows how to go about coming up with that number, IronPort's Peterson
| said.
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/144489/botnets_running_rampant.html
Related:
Hotmail still riddled with spam
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| Microsoft has admitted that up to 98 per cent of messages sent to
| Hotmail addresses are spam.
|
| [...]
|
| The findings will disappoint Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, who
| predicted at the 2004 Davos World Economic Forum that spam would
| be "eliminated" within two years.
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http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2188226/hotmail-riddled-spam-admits
Microsoft is the world's biggest cause of zombie remailers
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| In China, it would take about one and one-half years wages (for the
| average Chinese) to buy a legitimate copy of Windows Vista. If you
| could find it here.
|
| Microsoft is the biggest cause of zombie remailers in the world,
| because they make noises, but do not do anything to address the
| real digital inequities in the world.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=38202
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