http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles en-us http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles N/A glace@sgdnetworks.com Wed, 22 May 2013 09:37:24 -0400 20 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/11704/1/Trying-Mollom-antispam/Trying-Mollom-antispam.html I’ve been having a fair number of spam comments get tgrouh the filters on my blog. I’ve tried Akismet. I’ve tried SpamKarma2. I’ve tried Akismet AND SpamKarma2.  bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/11683/1/Forrester-Spam-Management-Best-Practices/Forrester-Spam-Management-Best-Practices.html Spam is certainly not a new phenomenon, and although antispam is a 15-year-old industry that has made significant technological advances, many organizations still struggle with spam management. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 05 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/11672/1/5-Tips-To-Avoid-Spam-E-mail/5-Tips-To-Avoid-Spam-E-mail.html The US government has released Anti-Spam policy 2003 to protect against the Spamming. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 04 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/11656/1/Japanese-new-anti-spam-law/Japanese-new-anti-spam-law.html The spam problem in Japan has evolved rapidly over the past few years.  As late as 2004, the vast majority of spam was sent to mobile phones rather than PCs.  bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/11637/1/United-States-Japanese-New-Anti-Spam-Law/United-States-Japanese-New-Anti-Spam-Law.html The spam problem in Japan has evolved rapidly over the past few years. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/11621/1/WordPress-3-antispam-solutions/WordPress-3-antispam-solutions.html A couple of weeks ago I was getting hit by spam that wasn’t picked up by Akismet and Spam Karma and marking the same kind of message as spam multiple times a day for several days made me look into this combination.  bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/11599/1/Anti-Spam-Program-Choices/Anti-Spam-Program-Choices.html Subscriber and long-time reader Scott Adler wrote to me about his experiences with three of the various anti-spam programs. I’ve used Mailwasher Pro and PopFile and like both, but they are entirely different in their approach to spam. My current choice is PopFile. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/11578/1/Yahoo-Anti-Spam-Czar-Taking-Questions/Yahoo-Anti-Spam-Czar-Taking-Questions.html Do you have some questions for the omnipitent ruler of Yahoo Mail? Well here is your chance. You have a 4-5pm Window on the 30th to fire off your questions to Mark. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/11563/1/IronPort-tops-Forresters-vendor-list-for-spam-management-best-practices/IronPort-tops-Forresters-vendor-list-for-spam-management-best-practices.html IronPort® Systems, a Cisco business unit and a leading provider of enterprise spam, virus, and spyware protection, has announced that it has topped Forrester Research’s vendor list for Spam Management Best Practices. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 28 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/11544/1/New-anti-spam-measures-on-this-site/New-anti-spam-measures-on-this-site.html I’ve switched from Akismet to Defensio for my spam-stopping needs here on this blog.  bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/11527/1/New-Twitter-Anti-Spam-Bot-Causes-Chaos/New-Twitter-Anti-Spam-Bot-Causes-Chaos.html Twitter Anti-Spam Bot Punishes Community Managers and Causes Follower Counts to Drop bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/11518/1/Mobilink-deploys-Tekelecs-antispam-firewall-solution/Mobilink-deploys-Tekelecs-antispam-firewall-solution.html Tekelec, a provider of multimedia session control solution, has announced that Pakistan Mobile Communications, also known as Mobilink GSM, has deployed its TekMedia antispam firewall solution to combat SMS spam attacks on its subscribers. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/11497/1/Twitter-anti-spam-efforts-go-overboard/Twitter-anti-spam-efforts-go-overboard.html Twitter co-founder Biz Stone wrote yesterday that its fight against spam is an “ongoing battle” but his team has taken big steps in stopping the unwanted follows from bots. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/11485/1/Homegrown-software-firm-Spamjadoo-keeps-the-inbox-intact/Homegrown-software-firm-Spamjadoo-keeps-the-inbox-intact.html They say technology brings people closer. But how close do you really want to get to a credit card salesman, a 'discount drugs' pharmacist or a chain mailer? Spammers have not just made the Internet a more unpleasant place. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/11469/1/Anti-Spam-Software-For-Mobile-Devices-Launched/Anti-Spam-Software-For-Mobile-Devices-Launched.html China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has launched a new mobile phone anti-spam software. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 19 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/11456/1/Report-Almost-all-emails-are-spam/Report-Almost-all-emails-are-spam.html The study, carried out by IT security firm Sophos, indicates the level of unwanted messages rose to 96.5 per cent of all business email in June this year, up from 92.3 per cent in the first three months of 2008. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/11446/1/Experts-report-disturbing-rise-in-spam/Experts-report-disturbing-rise-in-spam.html Experts have reported a "disturbing rise" in the level of spam between April and June 2008 as cyber-criminals increasingly exploit Facebook and mobile phones to spread junk mail. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/11427/1/Anti-Spyware-with-Spam-Controls--PC-maintenance-tools/Anti-Spyware-with-Spam-Controls--PC-maintenance-tools.html Combine the power of Anti-Spyware with the industry's most sophisticated spam and phishing defense, Spam Controls. Defend your PC and your privacy against dangerous spyware, malware and phishing attacks now with one simple, integrated solution! Active Protection (Real-Time Blocking), Customizable scanning processes, Backup and Restore feature, Detects and quarantines spam from Outlook and Outlook Express. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 14 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/11419/1/The-basic-concept-of-anti-spam-softwares-and-toolkits/The-basic-concept-of-anti-spam-softwares-and-toolkits.html Mohamad HafeezIn this article, you will discover the concept of an anti spam toolkit with the objective to provide a comprehensive policy orientation and consistent framework in the fight against spam. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 12 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/11398/1/DrWeb-Anti-Virus---Anti-spam-4445/DrWeb-Anti-Virus---Anti-spam-4445.html Dr.Web® for Windows provides reliable and highly efficient protection of your system and data regardless what type of the Microsoft operating system is installed on your computer. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/11374/1/VoIP-Spam--An-Impending-Doom/VoIP-Spam--An-Impending-Doom.html As you well know, spam infiltrates, clogs, and slows down email servers worldwide. In my organization, spam accounts for nearly 89% of all inbound and outbound messages.  bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/11361/1/Anti-Spam-protection-for-your-organizations-email-server/Anti-Spam-protection-for-your-organizations-email-server.html Are you getting annoyed by spam emails? Are you spending a lot of time in deleting junk emails ? Then , you’re heading towards to get the spam filtering firewall for your incoming emails. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/11342/1/New-anti-spam-rules-kick-in-today/New-anti-spam-rules-kick-in-today.html A little less junk is headed for your e-mail inbox.New updates to the federal "can-spam" act of 2003 take effect today, says ExactTarget, which is the Indianapolis-based e-mail marketing specialist trying to keep its clients compliant. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 08 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/11323/1/Perimetec-Anti-Spam-Company/Perimetec-Anti-Spam-Company.html A company that serve protection service for your net. Maybe it can be one of your net security solution. If your website needs a protection from your spam. Maybe while you looking for solutions to over come what problems that the rightest for this problem. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 07 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/11297/1/Anti-Spam-Encryption-Tool-Launched-on-Sicap-Gateway/Anti-Spam-Encryption-Tool-Launched-on-Sicap-Gateway.html Sicap alias management, an integrated component of the just-released version 4.30 of Sicap Mobile Multimedia Gateway (MMG), stops mobile subscriber numbers getting into the hands of senders of un-solicited messages by encrypting them as they transit the gateway. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/11276/1/-Software602-Licenses-Commtouch-Real-Time-Anti-Spam-for-Groupware-Server/-Software602-Licenses-Commtouch-Real-Time-Anti-Spam-for-Groupware-Server.html (Business Wire) Software602, Inc. and Commtouch® (NASDAQ:CTCH) today announced the signing of an OEM licensing agreement to integrate Commtouch’s Anti-Spam service into Software602’s Groupware Server. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/11255/1/-Spam-fighters-lay-down-gauntlet/-Spam-fighters-lay-down-gauntlet.html New guidelines for how internet service providers should combat spam have been published. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 28 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/11243/1/Anti-spam-Group-Draws-up-Guidelines-for-ISPs/Anti-spam-Group-Draws-up-Guidelines-for-ISPs.html A set of guidelines is being drawn up that could help internet service providers (ISPs) curb spam sent from botnets, it has emerged. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/11237/1/Allspammedupcom---All-You-Want-To-Know-About-Business-Anti-Spam/Allspammedupcom---All-You-Want-To-Know-About-Business-Anti-Spam.html Everyday, hundreds spam emails I receive, it’s very annoying and disgusting. Most of them are scams, hoaxes, trying defrauding my money and private information. So I want to protect my self from this annoying problem, so I dig more information about spam email. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/11214/1/Cloudmark-Announces-ActiveFilterTM-Game-Changing-Spam-Filtering-for-Mail-Stores/Cloudmark-Announces-ActiveFilterTM-Game-Changing-Spam-Filtering-for-Mail-Stores.html Cloudmark, Inc., the global leader in carrier-grade messaging security, today puts e-mail security one step ahead of spammers by announcing Cloudmark ActiveFilter(TM), the first and only solution to efficiently clean up unwanted messages delivered to the service provider mail store, thus dramatically improving the user experience and freeing valuable storage capacity. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/11198/1/How-does-the-zero-hour-anti-virus-of-MX-Lab-performs/How-does-the-zero-hour-anti-virus-of-MX-Lab-performs.html Virus outbreaks like in the past when tons of emails contained a virus, trojan or other malicious file attached are rare these days. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/11187/1/MySpace-Wins-6M-Anti-Spam-Verdict/MySpace-Wins-6M-Anti-Spam-Verdict.html Social networking giant MySpace won another case in its never-ending battle with spammers. In the latest chapter, the popular online hangout won $6 million against the affiliate network Media Breakaway and its chief Scott Richter. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 21 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/11158/1/Anti-spam-or-anti-email/Anti-spam-or-anti-email.html I'm not sure exactly when it started, but LJ's recent addition of S25R anti-spam technology to their mail servers seems more trouble than it's worth. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/11132/1/Whats-Behind-the-Stupid-Face-Spam-Scourge/Whats-Behind-the-Stupid-Face-Spam-Scourge.html What a stupid face you have.If that seems like a random and cruel declaration, check your spam filter. Spammers have been using that unfriendly subject line on their missives for the last few weeks. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/11106/1/Free-speech-laws-violated-by-anti-spam-rules/Free-speech-laws-violated-by-anti-spam-rules.html Anti-spam rules violate free speech laws in the US, according to one of the most prolific practitioners of bulk emailing. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/11105/1/Former-spam-king-must-pay-MySpace-6-million/Former-spam-king-must-pay-MySpace-6-million.html A Colorado man has been ordered to pay US$6 million in damages and legal fees for spamming thousands of MySpace.com users. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/11075/1/eSoft-Unveils-Newest-Email-ThreatPak-with-Enhanced-Spam-Detection-Data-Leakage-Protection-Opportunistic-Encryption-and-More/eSoft-Unveils-Newest-Email-ThreatPak-with-Enhanced-Spam-Detection-Data-Leakage-Protection-Opportun.html eSoft, Inc., a leading vendor of integrated Internet security and content management solutions, announced today the release of its latest Email ThreatPak update, which includes a number of new features and enhancements. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/11074/1/Gibberish-Spam/Gibberish-Spam.html I’ve been gettigg gibberish spam the past few weeks. I’ll leave one up (see “Recent Comments” on right) for a few days. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/11062/1/Anti-Spam-Products/Anti-Spam-Products.html In today world on internet we see many ads almost on all big and small sites targeting anti spam software and anti spam appliances. They force us to purchase and download anti spam appliance and anti spam software to get rid from spamming and spam mails. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 14 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/11020/1/Yahoo-Rolls-Back-Anti-spam-and-SSL-Features-of-Yahoo-Mail/Yahoo-Rolls-Back-Anti-spam-and-SSL-Features-of-Yahoo-Mail.html Due to difficulties experienced by users when retrieving POP e-mail from external accounts, Yahoo! is rolling back the anti-spam and Secure Socket Layer (SSL) features of its Webmail service. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/11018/1/NDR-spam-explained/NDR-spam-explained.html Research shows that up to 90% of emails received by companies are spam, and spammers have adopted a variety of methods to bypass spam filters used in anti-spam software. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10981/1/A-Common-Set-of-Antispam-Metrics-part-3/A-Common-Set-of-Antispam-Metrics-part-3.html The first way to do this is by way of Catch Rate. Catch rate is defined by the following: bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10980/1/TypePad-AntiSpam-Looks-Great/TypePad-AntiSpam-Looks-Great.html After having TypePad AntiSpam installed in my blog, I noticed that it works very well. I had more than 240 spams filtered by this plugin. I’m satisfied with the result. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10932/1/Spam-Where-it-Came-From-and-How-to-Escape-It/Spam-Where-it-Came-From-and-How-to-Escape-It.html In 1936, long before the rise of the personal computer, Hormel Foods created SPAM. In 2002, the company will produce it’s six billionth can of the processed food product. But that mark was passed long ago in the world of Internet spam. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 09 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10931/1/Hot-or-Not-TypePad-AntiSpam/Hot-or-Not-TypePad-AntiSpam.html Thanks for visiting! If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed. This blog posts regular Wordpress news, updates of themes, plugins, ideas, hacks, quick fixes and everything about blogging, especially about Wordpress. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 09 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10893/1/Top-spam-fighters-offer-feature-diversity/Top-spam-fighters-offer-feature-diversity.html Our short list, based on the spam catch tests, included three services (Postini, Advascan and Mycom), four appliances (BorderWare, CipherTrust, Barracuda and Messaging Architects), three software packages tested on Unix (from Sophos, Proofpoint and Cloudmark) and two tested on Windows (Symantec and MailFrontier). bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 07 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10892/1/Get-educated-about-spam/Get-educated-about-spam.html Deleting useless and boring emails from unknown sources selling everything from medicines to software and promising undreamed of wealth and beauty has become a chore for anyone with an email account. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 07 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10891/1/Anti-virus-anti-spam-still-popular-security-policy-yet-to-catch-up/Anti-virus-anti-spam-still-popular-security-policy-yet-to-catch-up.html Security is a major concern for any business that is dependent upon IT and SBs are no exception to this rule. Although they may be small, the complexity of an SB and managing its IT systems is not that different from the process in a large enterprise.  bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 07 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10888/1/TypePad-Anti-Spam-Akismet-for-Movable-Type/TypePad-Anti-Spam-Akismet-for-Movable-Type.html One of the new announcements from SixApart (aside from MT 4.2) is making the (beta) TypePad Anti-Spam service (based on Akismet) available to MT 3 and 4 users (and WP 2.3/2.5). bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 31 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10862/1/Anti-Spam-Solutions-for-Wordpress-Movable-Type-and-the-Rest-of-the-Web/Anti-Spam-Solutions-for-Wordpress-Movable-Type-and-the-Rest-of-the-Web.html Comment and trackback spam began propagating through the web in 2003 and they haven’t stopped spreading since. Jay Allen created one of the original comment anti-spam tools which worked by allowing users to keep a blacklist and disallow comments from known spammers. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 30 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10861/1/Die-Comment-Spam-Die/Die-Comment-Spam-Die.html Blogging software and services provider Six Apart (known for MovableType and TypePad), has unleashed a new anti-comment spam filter, creatively dubbed TypePad AntiSpam. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 30 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10820/1/Knesset-outlaws-unsolicited-spam-SMS-auto-callers/Knesset-outlaws-unsolicited-spam-SMS-auto-callers.html Advertisers who send unwanted solicitations by telephone, text messages (SMS), e-mail (spam) or fax may be fined as much as NIS 200,000, according to a bill the Knesset approved Wednesday. The new law takes effect in six months. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 29 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10819/1/Knesset-adopts-tough-anti-spam-legislation/Knesset-adopts-tough-anti-spam-legislation.html The Knesset yesterday passed in its second and third readings a bill submitted by Minister of Communications Ariel Atias banning the sending of advertisements by SMS, e-mail, fax, and automatic dialing systems without the prior consent of the addressee. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 29 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10783/1/Comment-spam-Spammers-vs-morons/Comment-spam-Spammers-vs-morons.html This post is a bit of a rant.On this particular blog, all of my commenters are quite intelligent.  You all provide good content and I try my best to respond to most of the comments.  bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 28 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10782/1/Update-on-Gmail-spam-exploit/Update-on-Gmail-spam-exploit.html A couple of weeks ago I made a blog post based on a SecurityFocus vulnerability report suggesting that Gmail smtp servers could be abused by spammers. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 28 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10780/1/Yahoo-files-suit-against-lottery-spammers/Yahoo-files-suit-against-lottery-spammers.html Yahoo Inc. has filed a lawsuit against an unknown group of defendants it alleges tricked consumers into thinking they won a lottery or prize offered by the Internet company. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 28 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10744/1/Top-10-ISP-spam-targets-revealed/Top-10-ISP-spam-targets-revealed.html Results from a research project conducted by anti-spam software company, ClearMyMail has been published, revealing a list of the Top 10 spam targeted UK ISPs. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 27 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10742/1/Comment-problems-and-anti-spam-word-difficulties/Comment-problems-and-anti-spam-word-difficulties.html Yes, I am getting your e-mails that you can see the anti-spam word.  I know also that there is a long long delay for the comments to appear. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 27 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10705/1/Features-And-Benefits-Of-Spam-Filter/Features-And-Benefits-Of-Spam-Filter.html The ideal anti-spam software is the one that ensures you your privacy and blocks 100 percent of the emails you do not want to receive. But it is never going to be possible. Spammers are always inventing new techniques to trick the filters, and the developers of anti-spam software try not to overlook it. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 26 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10704/1/Google-Docs-the-Latest-Spam-Vehicle/Google-Docs-the-Latest-Spam-Vehicle.html Spammers have proven themselves as creative as they are tenacious. We've seen image spam, PDF spam and MP3 spam, and now the latest trick involves using Google Docs to get by spam filters. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 26 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10695/1/Anti-virus-firm-warns-vs-spam-about-China-earthquake/Anti-virus-firm-warns-vs-spam-about-China-earthquake.html Spam e-mail masquerading as news updates on the recent earthquake in China actually contain viruses, according to the anti-virus firm Sophos. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 24 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10694/1/Google-Docs-used-in-latest-spam-attack/Google-Docs-used-in-latest-spam-attack.html Spammers will do just about anything to get their e-mail through corporate and desktop filters. According to MessageLabs, they're now using Google Docs, a perfectly legitimate way to publish to the Web. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 24 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10652/1/Orange-customers-get-most-spam/Orange-customers-get-most-spam.html Customers of ISP Orange get the most unsolicited email, according to a report from anti-spam company ClearMyMail. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 22 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10651/1/Spammers-sentenced-to-five-years-under-anti-spam-law/Spammers-sentenced-to-five-years-under-anti-spam-law.html Jeffrey Kilbride and James Schaffer started their spam business operation in 2003 after buying lists of email addresses, with each address representing a payout if its owner joined the X-rated site. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 22 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10642/1/New-Anti-Spam-Bill-Proposed-for-Canada/New-Anti-Spam-Bill-Proposed-for-Canada.html After years of inaction, it looks as if the Canadian government is finally getting close to passing its own anti-spam regulations.  Senator Yoine Goldstein introduced the Anti-Spam Act, which closely resembles Australia's spam legislation. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 21 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10641/1/Stop-Spam-Email/Stop-Spam-Email.html Stop Spam Email - It's really here!  The Solution for fighting back.  Spam eMail is one of the most costly aspects of the Online Era and now you  can put an end to Spam Email. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 21 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10636/1/Senators-anti-spam-bill-is-welcome-news/Senators-anti-spam-bill-is-welcome-news.html The Canadian government's lack of action against spam has been one of the most puzzling policy failures in recent years. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 20 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10634/1/Senate-spam-bill-important-step-after-years-of-inaction.html The Canadian government's lack of action against spam has been one of the most puzzling policy failures in recent years. While addressing a problem that has grown from a mere nuisance to a costly scourge that raises criminal concerns would seem like a no-brainer, successive industry ministers have failed to prioritize the issue. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 20 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10615/1/-Anti-Spam-Settlement-Doesnt-Mean-Parents-Can-Relax/-Anti-Spam-Settlement-Doesnt-Mean-Parents-Can-Relax.html A federal judge has ordered spammers to pay $230 million in damages to social-networking Web site MySpace. It's believed to be the largest anti-spam judgment in history. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 17 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10614/1/Post-9-on-Why-Spam-Filters-Suck-quottrickle-blogquot-series/Post-9-on-Why-Spam-Filters-Suck-quottrickle-blogquot-series.html Despite all the money invested into anti-spam solutions, spam volume continues to rise. Yes, spamming is an arms race. But the real race is one of sheer volume. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 17 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10603/1/Anam-Telenor-Work-to-Combat-Text-Message-Spam/Anam-Telenor-Work-to-Combat-Text-Message-Spam.html In an effort to protect one of wireless technology’s fastest-growing markets against a pesky invader, a pair of European companies are collaborating on an effort prevent spam texts from reaching mobile phones. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 15 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10602/1/Judge-Passes-Landmark-Anti-Spam-Ruling/Judge-Passes-Landmark-Anti-Spam-Ruling.html In a major deterrent to wannabe spammers, a US federal judge has awarded News Corp-owned social networking Web site MySpace a landmark judgement wherein one Sanford Wallace alias 'Spam King' and his partner Walter Rines have been ordered to cough up a whopping $230 million in damages for mass spamming of MySpace member accounts. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 15 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10598/1/Free-Anti-Spam-Trial-and-20-discount-on-purchase/Free-Anti-Spam-Trial-and-20-discount-on-purchase.html Clean Communications Limited would like to offer all fellow members of it@cork a one month free trial of their spam filtering service 'The Email Laundry' bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 14 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10597/1/MySpace-wins-230-million-anti-spam-judgment/MySpace-wins-230-million-anti-spam-judgment.html The popular Internet destination MySpace has won an almost quarter-billion-dollar damage judgment against a notorious spammer known as the "Spam King." bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 14 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10570/1/How-to-use-Anti-Spam-Appliances/How-to-use-Anti-Spam-Appliances.html These days spamming or you could say unsolicited, unwanted, irrelevant or inappropriate mails are very common and everyone is suffering from these irritating and dangerous spam mails. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 13 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10569/1/-Enthusiast-Anti-spam-Addon-and-allegations-of-jumping-ship/-Enthusiast-Anti-spam-Addon-and-allegations-of-jumping-ship.html Gabrielle wrote an Enthusiast anti-spam addon, which may be useful for those of you whose listings have been targeted by spambots. Please check it out if you have this problem, as this may work for you. Thanks so much to Gabrielle for doing this. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 13 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10560/1/Maxis-launches-new-anti-spam-services-for-subscribers/Maxis-launches-new-anti-spam-services-for-subscribers.html Malaysia-based Maxis Communications introduced a new service that arms subscribers to control, personalize and automate their short message service to tackle unsolicited SMS and spam. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 12 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10557/1/Astaro-Blocks-Growing-Backscatter-Spam/Astaro-Blocks-Growing-Backscatter-Spam.html Astaro Corporation (www.astaro.com), a leading vendor of integrated security solutions, today announced that Astaro Security Gateway can detect and block what is known as backscatter:  bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 10 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10532/1/Kaspersky-Anti-VirusInternet-Security-2009-800357-LA/Kaspersky-Anti-VirusInternet-Security-2009-800357-LA.html Kaspersky Anti-Virus & Internet Security 2009 8.0.0.357‘ 1. Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2009 Build 8.0.0.357 (29.04.2008) TR (Technical Release)ENGlish with working keys with version 2009body{font-family:verdana;font-size:11px;color:#000000;background:#FFFFFF;margin-top:10px;margin-left:10px;} bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 09 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10529/1/Features-And-Benefits-Of-Anti-Spam-Software.html The best anti-spam software is the one that gives you your privacy. Ideally, an anti-spam device should be the one that delivers only the emails you want, and blocks 100 percent of the emails you do not want. This, though, is never going to be possible. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 08 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10489/1/Why-Do-We-Need-Anti-Spam-Software/Why-Do-We-Need-Anti-Spam-Software.html Spam, otherwise known as junk email or unsolicited commercial email; is quickly becoming on of the most prevalent complaints of internet users. Not only is it annoying, but it is quickly becoming a dangerous and potentially expensive problem for businesses as well as individuals. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 07 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10451/1/30-years-of-spam/30-years-of-spam.html Who among us has not received emails offering us fabulous discounts on luxury watches, schemes to get rich instantly, and products and equipments for bodily satisfaction and enhancements? We may get irritated and hit the delete button but the spam keeps coming. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 06 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10449/1/When-ghosts-spam/When-ghosts-spam.html Most spam is sent to non-existent addresses, but that can still generate annoying messages for genuine users. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 06 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10447/1/Computers-crack-anti-spam-codes/Computers-crack-anti-spam-codes.html Are you a human or a computer?Over the Internet, it's getting harder and harder to tell. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 06 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10389/1/What-Is-Spam-How-To-Identify-And-Block-It/What-Is-Spam-How-To-Identify-And-Block-It.html Almost everyone who used to communicate via e-mail has ever found in the Inbox the messages from people he doesn’t know proposing some services or products. All unsolicited and undesired messages you receive are SPAM. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 05 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10388/1/Computers-crack-anti-spam-codes/Computers-crack-anti-spam-codes.html Are you a human or a computer?Over the Internet, it's getting harder and harder to tell.Some of the common tests used by Web sites to distinguish between legitimate flesh-and-blood visitors and malicious human-mimicking computers recently appear to have been outwitted. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 05 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10346/1/Currimao-warehouse-yields-12000-cans-of-Spam/Currimao-warehouse-yields-12000-cans-of-Spam.html More than 12,000 cans of Spam luncheon meat were discovered by government anti-smuggling group in a warehouse at Currimao Port in Ilocos Norte Wednesday, police said Thursday. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 02 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10345/1/30-years-of-Spam---and-we-aint-finished-yet/30-years-of-Spam---and-we-aint-finished-yet.html Spam celebrates its 30th birthday on Saturday (3 May).On that day in 1978, 393 Arpanet subscribers were sent what's reckoned to be the first ever spam email1 in history (the message itself was written on 1 May 1978). bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 02 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10298/1/Anti-spam-case-granted-rehearing/Anti-spam-case-granted-rehearing.html The first felony spam conviction in the US will be revisited, calling into question laws applied to commercial vs. noncommercial spam. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 01 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10288/1/Reliable-Anti-Spam-Solution/Reliable-Anti-Spam-Solution.html In every business, e-mail has become an important, if not the most important form of communication. It’s the easiest way to get information or inform co-workers or your boss about certain things. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10287/1/How-Do-Anti-Spam-Solutions-Work/How-Do-Anti-Spam-Solutions-Work.html We have all suffered from these annoying dangerous spam emails. Most of us still do. There are excellent anti spam solutions in the market, there is no reason to tolerate this no more. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10234/1/-Kaspersky-Anti-Spam-30-receives-anti-spam-certification-from-ICSA-Labs/-Kaspersky-Anti-Spam-30-receives-anti-spam-certification-from-ICSA-Labs.html Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content management solutions, announces that Kaspersky Anti-Spam 3.0 a solution which provides spam protection for corporate mail systems and public email services, has successfully passed certification tests held by respected American laboratory ICSA Labs. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10233/1/Google-keeping-mum-about-its-Anti-Spam-strategy/Google-keeping-mum-about-its-Anti-Spam-strategy.html Online search giant Google was particularly discreet at the Web 2.0 expo in San Francisco over the controversial Spam issue; one of its most popular spokesperson (and one of the most listened too), Matt Cutts gave an insight of "What Google Knows about Spam". bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10197/1/Why-Use-Corporate-Managed-Anti-spam-Filtering/Why-Use-Corporate-Managed-Anti-spam-Filtering.html Why use exchange spam filter?Did you know American companies are loosing 70 Billion Dollars a year due to lost worker productivity directly related to email spam. Companies loose on average $1,934 a year per employee because of email spam (Nucleus Research). bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 28 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10196/1/Californias-anti-spam-law-may-make-things-difficult-for-email-marketers/Californias-anti-spam-law-may-make-things-difficult-for-email-marketers.html Legitimate email marketers could be impacted by a new bill before the California State Legislature aimed at hampering the efforts of spammers. The proposed bill could make things more difficult for legitimate marketers, especially in the short term, but long term impact could harm legitimate marketers as well. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 28 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10135/1/Colorado-Governor-Ritter-Signs-Anti-Spam-9health-Bills/Colorado-Governor-Ritter-Signs-Anti-Spam-9health-Bills.html Colorado Governor Bill Ritter today signed into law a measure that strengthens protections against spammers and another that supports the 9Health Fair, which has provided low-cost health care tests and screenings for Coloradans for 25 years. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 25 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10134/1/YAASI-Yet-Another-Anti-Spam-Idea/YAASI-Yet-Another-Anti-Spam-Idea.html Branden and I had an idea to help with the spam problem on our system, and it’s proven particularly effective. How effective? Here’s the graphs from the last year of email on my system. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 25 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10133/1/Cloudmarks-anti-spam-brief-awarded-to-Firefly/Cloudmarks-anti-spam-brief-awarded-to-Firefly.html Firefly has been handed a six-figure 'anti-spam' PR campaign as the problem of fraudulent 'phishing' on the internet reaches an all-time high. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 25 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10124/1/E-Marketers-ISPs-Take-Fresh-Look-at-Battling-Spam-With-Revised-MAAWG-Best-Practices-for-Volume-Senders/E-Marketers-ISPs-Take-Fresh-Look-at-Battling-Spam-With-Revised-MAAWG-Best-Practices-for-Volume-Send.html The Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG) has released version 2.0 of its Senders Best Communications Practices defining how volume email senders can improve the deliverability of legitimate e-newsletters and permission-based e-marketing. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10123/1/Colorado-Governor-Ritter-Signs-Anti-Spam-9health-Bills/Colorado-Governor-Ritter-Signs-Anti-Spam-9health-Bills.html Colorado Governor Bill Ritter today signed into law a measure that strengthens protections against spammers and another that supports the 9Health Fair, which has provided low-cost health care tests and screenings for Coloradans for 25 years. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10102/1/E-Marketers-ISPs-Take-Fresh-Look-at-Battling-Spam-With-Revised-MAAWG-Best-Practices-for-Volume-Senders/E-Marketers-ISPs-Take-Fresh-Look-at-Battling-Spam-With-Revised-MAAWG-Best-Practices-for-Volume-Send.html The Messaging Anti-Abuse WorkingGroup (MAAWG) has released version 2.0 of its Senders Best CommunicationsPractices defining how volume email senders can improve the deliverabilityof legitimate e-newsletters and permission-based e-marketing.  bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10100/1/Social-Networking-Spam-Just-Say-No/Social-Networking-Spam-Just-Say-No.html After years of tweaking anti-spam filters on my personal email server, I have all but banished Nigerian dictators ads for "viagkra" from my mailbox. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/10098/1/Proposed-Anti-Spam-Law-Would-Make-Lawsuits-Easier/Proposed-Anti-Spam-Law-Would-Make-Lawsuits-Easier.html California is mulling new anti-spam legislation that would strengthen state law by making it easier for private citizens to sue some e-mail marketers. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/9999/1/Bill-toughening-anti-spam-law-in-works/Bill-toughening-anti-spam-law-in-works.html A bill to strengthen California's anti-spam law is working its way through the state Legislature and could go into effect as early as next year. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 19 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/9998/1/Are-Anti-SPAM-Solutions-Failing-or-Are-There-Simply-More-Barbarians-at-the-Gate/Are-Anti-SPAM-Solutions-Failing-or-Are-There-Simply-More-Barbarians-at-the-Gate.html New figures suggest that 92.3 percent of all email sent globally during the first three months of 2008 was Spam1 and a second report indicates that the top botnets, if they worked together, are capable of sending over 100 billion Spam emails per day2. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 19 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/9923/1/CHIME-Survey-Shows-CIOs-Rejecting-Stark-Exception-Embracing-Spam-Management/CHIME-Survey-Shows-CIOs-Rejecting-Stark-Exception-Embracing-Spam-Management.html According to a recent survey of College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) members, the majority of respondents have no plans to take advantage of the new Stark Exception and anti-kickback safe harbor laws. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 18 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/9922/1/Bill-toughening-anti-spam-law-in-works/Bill-toughening-anti-spam-law-in-works.html A bill to strengthen California's anti-spam law is working its way through the state Legislature and could go into effect as early as next year. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 18 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/9866/1/Anti-Virus-Programs-Arent-One-Stop-Stoppers/Anti-Virus-Programs-Arent-One-Stop-Stoppers.html Many Windows users worry about viruses. Some also worry about the software that's supposed to protect their computers from viruses. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 17 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/9861/1/Why-anti-spam-effectiveness-testing-sucks/Why-anti-spam-effectiveness-testing-sucks.html Infoworld have released a review of various anti-spam systems and along with that a comparison chart of effectiveness based on their long-term (2 week) testing of each of the systems. The report ends with the common issue of how to determine which one is the best given that there are multiple variables involved. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 17 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/9802/1/Spam-getting-worse/Spam-getting-worse.html Spam now makes up 80% of all e-mail. Put another way, only two of 10 e-mails are good. Fighting back can be daunting but I have some suggestions that can ease the burden on your in-box. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 16 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/9801/1/-SpamStopsHere-Anti-spam-Service-Launches-IT-Security-Blog/-SpamStopsHere-Anti-spam-Service-Launches-IT-Security-Blog.html SpamStopsHere, Inc., the industry leading provider of e-mail security and spam filtering solutions announces the launch of the Secure Channel Blog. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 16 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/9747/1/New-Spam-Tricks-Revealed/New-Spam-Tricks-Revealed.html Spammers are increasingly relying on legitimate content and web sites to cloak their messages, attempting to bypass traditional controls by passing their messages off as genuine. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 15 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/9746/1/SPAMfighter-SMTP-Anti-Spam-Server-259/SPAMfighter-SMTP-Anti-Spam-Server-259.html "Protect your MS Windows Server users from time consuming spam" bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 15 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/9690/1/How-to-Choose-Anti-Spam-Filter/How-to-Choose-Anti-Spam-Filter.html The damage spam brings you is huge: loss of time, bandwidth and money, risk to delete a legitimate message together with junk emails. So, an anti-spam filter is not a whim but a necessity for almost all PC users who actively use email. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 14 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/9688/1/New-Technological-Advances-Increase-Volume-of-Worldwide-Spam/New-Technological-Advances-Increase-Volume-of-Worldwide-Spam.html March 2008 revealed a surprising increase in the volume of worldwide spam.  An average of 81% of all the email traffic consisted of spam messages, with an astonishing peak of 88%.  bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 14 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/9687/1/Anti-Spam-Protection-by-CA/Anti-Spam-Protection-by-CA.html Effective Protection from Spam, Phishing and Dangerous WebsitesCA Anti-Spam Plus CA Website Inspector provides effective, easy-to-use protection against unwanted spam and fraudulent phishing attacks. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 14 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/9633/1/4-on-Why-Spam-Filters-Suck-quottrickle-blogquot/4-on-Why-Spam-Filters-Suck-quottrickle-blogquot.html "Spamonomics": The Economics of SpammingSpammers earn billions of dollars annually. The business is efficient, hierarchical, and organized. In much the same way that the global trade in narcotics involves every conceivable method of smuggling (from submarines to drug mules), the spam trade employs software engineers to develop increasingly sophisticated delivery technologies. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 12 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/9632/1/First-impressions-Defensio-anti-spam-WordPress-plugin/First-impressions-Defensio-anti-spam-WordPress-plugin.html Akismet has for long, been a worthy dominating force in the anti-spam section of WordPress plugins (and some other platforms like bbPress), but many bloggers have noticed that the accuracy of Akismet has dropped sharply in the last few days. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 12 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/9586/1/Surprising-Statistics-On-Managing-Spam/Surprising-Statistics-On-Managing-Spam.html An anti-spam company located in the UK, ClearMyMail, has recently issued a report that reveals how expensive fighting spam can actually be.  Dealing with unwanted email messages received by sent by American spammers can cost small or medium-sized companies as much as £4.5 billion in terms of production costs. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 11 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/9584/1/Live-Webcast-The-Evolution-of-the-Underground-Spam-Economy/Live-Webcast-The-Evolution-of-the-Underground-Spam-Economy.html Internet spam is no longer a mere inconvenience; it's become a highly destructive phenomenon that can have catastrophic results for organizations. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 11 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/9522/1/Spam-filtering-services-throttle-Gmail-to-fight-spammers/Spam-filtering-services-throttle-Gmail-to-fight-spammers.html The growing abuse of webmail services to send spam has led anti-spam services to throttle messages from Gmail and Yahoo! bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 10 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/9521/1/-MailFoundry-Announces-New-Versions-of-Anti-Spam-Email-Security-Appliances/-MailFoundry-Announces-New-Versions-of-Anti-Spam-Email-Security-Appliances.html MailFoundry, the world's smartest anti-spam solution, today unveiled new versions of its wildly successful MailFoundry 1150, 2100 and 4100 model anti-spam appliances. The new MailFoundry units are based on new motherboards, Intel single and dual core CPUs and offer increased email processing power to combat the ever changing face of spam. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 10 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/9451/1/Anti-virus-software-isnt-the-only-computer-security-tool/Anti-virus-software-isnt-the-only-computer-security-tool.html Mike Saign smelled something fishy about the e-mail he received — purportedly from an eBay auctioneer — accepting his lowball offer for a high-end golf club. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 09 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/9450/1/Make-your-spam-scram-with-ease/Make-your-spam-scram-with-ease.html Q. There has to be an easier way to delete all items from my Outlook Express EZ Anti-Spam file than my method of pointing and clicking "delete" on each item. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 09 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/9449/1/ClearMyMail-spam-filtering-review/ClearMyMail-spam-filtering-review.html # List price:$29.95 (£16) for 1 year; $49.95 (£26) for 2 years; $3.50 (£1.75) per month# Pros: Works supremely well; No false positives; Service model makes it cross-platform# Cons: Oriented towards single email accounts; No direct webmail support bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 09 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/9442/1/Spamihilator-09939/Spamihilator-09939.html Works between your E-Mail client and the Internet and examines every incoming E-Mail. Useless spam mails (Junk) will be filtered out. This process runs completely in the background. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/9440/1/-Abacas-Industry-Leading-Anti-Spam-Solution-Now-Available-for-Enterprise-Customers/-Abacas-Industry-Leading-Anti-Spam-Solution-Now-Available-for-Enterprise-Customers.html Abaca Technology Corporation, an innovator in email protection and messaging security, today announced that its revolutionary anti-spam solution is now available for enterprise customers with the release of the Abaca Email Protection Gateway EPG 3000. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/9404/1/Why-Anti-Spam-Works/Why-Anti-Spam-Works.html In networked media you have to try hard.  If you create good ideas and content over a sustained period, interested parties will find you.  It's the opposite of spam-like marketing techniques where you put most of your efforts into creating very wide distribution. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 05 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/9401/1/-itravel2000-Blocks-Spam-With-PineApps-Mail-SeCure-Installed-By-NCI/-itravel2000-Blocks-Spam-With-PineApps-Mail-SeCure-Installed-By-NCI.html PineApp™, a global leader in securing networks and email systems, in partnership with NCI, announced today that itravel2000, one of Canada’s largest on-line travel agencies, has deployed PineApp’s Mail-SeCure perimeter security appliance to protect them from malicious spam attacks. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 05 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/9381/1/Spam-cold-war-set-to-continue/Spam-cold-war-set-to-continue.html The number of unsolicited e-mails heading for Irish inboxes rose sharply during March, according to new figures from IE Internet. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 04 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/9380/1/-itravel2000-Blocks-Spam-With-PineApps-Mail-SeCure-Installed-By-NCI/-itravel2000-Blocks-Spam-With-PineApps-Mail-SeCure-Installed-By-NCI.html PineApp™, a global leader in securing networks and email systems, in partnership with NCI, announced today that itravel2000, one of Canada’s largest on-line travel agencies, has deployed PineApp’s Mail-SeCure perimeter security appliance to protect them from malicious spam attacks. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 04 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/9338/1/You-Have-Invested-In-A-Spam-Filter-But-Continue-Getting-Spam---What-Is-Wrong-With-This-Picture/You-Have-Invested-In-A-Spam-Filter-But-Continue-Getting-Spam---What-Is-Wrong-With-This-Picture.html Let's talk about what you can to do help make your e-mail both more reliable and keep Spam out of your client's mailboxes. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 03 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/9337/1/SMEs-lose-2000-to-tackling-spam/SMEs-lose-2000-to-tackling-spam.html The time taken dealing with spam email means small businesses in the UK say goodbye to an average £2,000 a year in lost productivity costs, new research reveals. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 03 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/9282/1/BT-hits-undo-on-anti-spam-email-update/BT-hits-undo-on-anti-spam-email-update.html BT has been forced to roll back changes it made to its rules on outgoing email addresses after they caused confusion for its broadband customers. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/9281/1/Protect-Yourself-From-Spam-Attacks-This-Tax-Season/Protect-Yourself-From-Spam-Attacks-This-Tax-Season.html Hackers have been taking advantage of the impending tax deadline in theUnited States.  A much greater number of spam messages are being used to lure individuals with tax-related themes. Once people click on these fake tax emails, malware is often loaded on to their computer systems. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/9237/1/Would-You-Like-Spam-With-That/Would-You-Like-Spam-With-That.html It is thought that ‘spam’ was a word first coined during the war to describe some anaemic looking reconstituted meat product that contained approximately 1.4% meat. This product could then be deep fried, put in sandwiches, roasted or served with custard and passed for anything your mother said it was. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/9235/1/-Spam-blights-e-mail-15-years-on/-Spam-blights-e-mail-15-years-on.html Spam continues to blight e-mail exactly 15 years after the term was first coined and almost 30 years since the first spam message was sent. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/9205/1/SPAMfighter---Anti-Spam-Tool-for-OutlookExpress-and-Windows-Mail/SPAMfighter---Anti-Spam-Tool-for-OutlookExpress-and-Windows-Mail.html SPAMfighterI saw a review of SPAMfighter in WebUser magazine and decided to give it a try,seeing it got such a good review. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 31 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/9204/1/Mailing-list-moderation-and-anti-spam-filters/Mailing-list-moderation-and-anti-spam-filters.html Here's a question that has bugged me for a while, and to which I've never found a satisfactory answer. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 31 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/9203/1/Web-Hosting-VoIP-Provider-Cbeyond-Deploys-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Technology/Web-Hosting-VoIP-Provider-Cbeyond-Deploys-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Technology.html Web hosting and managed integrated VoIP services provider, Cbeyond, has deployed the IronPort Anti-Spam technology, in an effort to squelch the increase of spam messages. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 31 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/9148/1/Yet-another-anti-spam-tool/Yet-another-anti-spam-tool.html The new Canadian federal law coming into effect regarding mail and phone marketing is pretty toothless in that some types of agencies are exempt (eg charities) and the "existing business relationship" loophole basically means if you ever gave anyone in a suit a sideways glance they're allowed to phone you during dinner. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 29 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/9146/1/Our-Take-Any-Spam-is-too-Much/Our-Take-Any-Spam-is-too-Much.html Spam is big business, and economics are in the bad guys' favor. Say a spammer blasts 100 million messages. If just 1% get through, and 1% of those are answered, that amounts to 10,000 responses. No other advertising is as cost-effective, so to win we must turn the economics of spam around. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 29 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/9145/1/Web-Hosting-VoIP-Provider-Cbeyond-Deploys-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Technology/Web-Hosting-VoIP-Provider-Cbeyond-Deploys-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Technology.html Web hosting and managed integrated VoIP services provider, Cbeyond, has deployed the IronPort Anti-Spam technology, in an effort to squelch the increase of spam messages. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 29 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/9071/1/AmVia-blocks-up-to-38-000-spam-e-mails-daily/AmVia-blocks-up-to-38-000-spam-e-mails-daily.html Prior to contracting Edgetec’s Managed Email service, AmVia received between 29 000 and 39 000 spam e-mails daily. Only one e-mail in 40 was a legitimate business communication. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/9069/1/Magnolia-OpenID-to-Save-Anti-Spam-Anti-Spam-to-Save-OpenID/Magnolia-OpenID-to-Save-Anti-Spam-Anti-Spam-to-Save-OpenID.html OpenID is wildly convenient for users, which is good for vendors, but is that motivation enough to really spur its adoption? Cutting-edge social bookmarking service Ma.gnolia stopped issuing new user credentials last night and now requires new users to create a Ma.gnolia account using an OpenID from somewhere else. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8992/1/-Anti-spam-gateway-design-notes/-Anti-spam-gateway-design-notes.html Once again I'm rebuilding an anti-spam gateway. This time I'm puppetizing it as I go, so I wanted to take some time today to think about the design. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 27 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8991/1/WordJot-eases-anti-spam-compliance-for-newsletters/WordJot-eases-anti-spam-compliance-for-newsletters.html Hamilton software developer Tim Bromhead has launched an online service that combines newsletter and blogging software that allows subscribers to publish news to the internet and email the information to contacts. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 27 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8962/1/-Cbeyond-Enhances-Messaging-Platform-by-Deploying-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Technology/-Cbeyond-Enhances-Messaging-Platform-by-Deploying-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Technology.html Cbeyond, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBEY), a leading IP-based managed services provider to small businesses, today announced its deployment of the IronPort® Anti-Spam technology to combat the worldwide increase in spam messages. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8961/1/Australias-Blue-Reef-Adds-Commtouch-RPD-to-Its-Traditional-Anti-Spam-and-Anti-Virus-Technologies/Australias-Blue-Reef-Adds-Commtouch-RPD-to-Its-Traditional-Anti-Spam-and-Anti-Virus-Technologies.html Blue Reef and Commtouch® (NASDAQ:CTCH) today announced that Blue Reef has licensed Commtouch’s Anti-Spam and Zero-Hour™ Virus Outbreak Protection services for integration into its Sonar Total Control Gateway Appliance. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8960/1/Comcast-Claims-Linhardt-Sued-to-Beat-Spam-Filters/Comcast-Claims-Linhardt-Sued-to-Beat-Spam-Filters.html Comcast has countersued David Linhardt, president of e-mail marketing firm e360 Insight, and the accusations have begun to fly. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8959/1/Cbeyond-Deploys-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Technology-To-Combat-Spam-Messages---Quick-Facts/Cbeyond-Deploys-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Technology-To-Combat-Spam-Messages---Quick-Facts.html On Tuesday revealed its deployment of the IronPort Anti-Spam technology to combat the increase in spam messages. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8856/1/Tracy-anti-spam-software-develops-glitch/Tracy-anti-spam-software-develops-glitch.html Everybody gets them. It's just that Tracy City Hall isn't a place you'd expect to see them. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 25 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8855/1/The-terrible-curse-of-spam/The-terrible-curse-of-spam.html No, I’m not talking about the kind that comes in a can.  Spam is the common name given to unwanted e-mails.  If you use a computer then you know what I’m talking about.  They are Stupid Pointless Annoying Messages.  bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 25 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8853/1/RSA-Anti-Fraud-Command-Centre-detects-new-developments-in-Botnet-and-Fast-Flux-phishing/RSA-Anti-Fraud-Command-Centre-detects-new-developments-in-Botnet-and-Fast-Flux-phishing.html RSA, The Security Division of EMC, today released highlights from its online fraud report for February 2008. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 25 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8852/1/Adult-Web-business-off-the-hook-for-spam/Adult-Web-business-off-the-hook-for-spam.html After insisting all along that it wasn't spamming, a Renton-based adult Web site operator won Monday in a civil case brought by the Federal Trade Commission under laws regulating unsolicited commercial e-mail messages. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 25 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8751/1/Spam-Goes-More-and-More-Mobile/Spam-Goes-More-and-More-Mobile.html Spam continues to come to a cellphone near you, Trend Micro analysts confirm. Unlike spam received through the email inbox on computers, “text message” spam are actually more costly to the user, as users are charged for any spam they receive. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 24 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8750/1/Silverlight-quotSPAM-ADquot/Silverlight-quotSPAM-ADquot.html I don't know whether we should call this "forcing" people to download, or -- to be more polite -- shall we phrasing it as "encouraging" people to download. But if recently you to go Microsoft website (http://www.microsoft.com), you will be surprised to be "greeted" by the following "annoying banner ad": bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 24 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8748/1/New-Anti-Spam-Tactics/New-Anti-Spam-Tactics.html So I’m trying out a new anti-spam combination:   1. Re-captcha   2. AkismetIf you have any problems with the CAPTCHA software, just reload the image or try the audio option. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 24 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8697/1/The-plus-side-of-all-this-spam-is-its-twisted-poetry-of-longing/The-plus-side-of-all-this-spam-is-its-twisted-poetry-of-longing.html Somewhere out there some firm that holds my credit card details has been hacked. I know this because I have started to get spam to an email address I only ever use for buying things. I have no idea which firm it might be: in the past two and a half years, I have had at least 520 messages to that address, from around 75 different firms. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 20 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8696/1/-SPAMfighter-Exchange-Module-Compatible-with-Windows-Server-2008/-SPAMfighter-Exchange-Module-Compatible-with-Windows-Server-2008.html (Business Wire) SPAMfighter Exchange Module (SEM) has released a version of the anti-spam and anti-phishing program compatible with Windows Server 2008. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 20 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8650/1/Spam-gets-social/Spam-gets-social.html Today I found the following comment in my akismet spam folder:    xrumer ist die beste!!!    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/—/thumb/—/—/XRumer—screenshot.gif/—XRumer—screenshot.gif* bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8647/1/Anti-Spam-Golden-Rules--Reject-if-You-Can/Anti-Spam-Golden-Rules--Reject-if-You-Can.html Which is the most appropriate method to filter emails classified as spam? We answer this question comparing the characteristics of rejection, deletion, centralized quarantining and per mailbox junk folders. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8646/1/Seattle-Noted-as-Hotbed-for-Spam-Activity/Seattle-Noted-as-Hotbed-for-Spam-Activity.html This month in Seattle has been noteworthy for the playing out of two high-profile spam-related court cases, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8602/1/ValueClick-to-Pay-29M-in-Spam-Case/ValueClick-to-Pay-29M-in-Spam-Case.html Online advertiser ValueClick Inc. will pay $2.9 million to settle charges that it made deceptive claims in e-mails and online ads, a government agency said Monday. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8601/1/How-Spam-Friendly-is-Your-Niche/How-Spam-Friendly-is-Your-Niche.html No one wants to attract spammers to their site. They scrape content, post junk comments and turn search engines off to your site. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8600/1/Google-Ads-Abused-to-Serve-Spam-and-Malware/Google-Ads-Abused-to-Serve-Spam-and-Malware.html Early this year we observed spammers using Google page ads in HTML-formatted emails to redirect users who click the spammed URL to the spammers’ sites. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8533/1/What-Is-Anti-Spam-Software/What-Is-Anti-Spam-Software.html Before we learn about anti-spam software, we need to first know what is spam. To put it succinctly, spam is unsolicited and unwanted email. Other names for spam are Unsolicited Bulk Mail, Excessive Multi-Posting, and Unsolicited Commercial email, in addition to the more common - spam mail, bulk email or just junk mail. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8532/1/YahooXtra-spam-filters-disrupt-email-delivery/YahooXtra-spam-filters-disrupt-email-delivery.html Vital business emails are going astray, intercepted and quarantined by YahooXtra’s spam filters without the knowledge of the sender or the receiver. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8531/1/Niue-Tokelau-among-worst-spam-senders/Niue-Tokelau-among-worst-spam-senders.html New Zealand territories Niue and Tokelau are among the three worst offenders for relaying spam per head of population, according to security software firm Sophos. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8477/1/Developers-hope-for-wider-use-of-the-DKIM-anti-spam-protocol/Developers-hope-for-wider-use-of-the-DKIM-anti-spam-protocol.html The developers of the Domain Keys Identified E-mail (DKIM) standard of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) are hoping that their anti-spam protocol will become more widely used by companies and ISPs. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 15 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8474/1/Spam-king-pleads-guilty/Spam-king-pleads-guilty.html Seattle's own spam king saw his reign come to an end Friday in U.S. District Court. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 15 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8400/1/8-Effective-Spam-Fighting-Tactics/8-Effective-Spam-Fighting-Tactics.html Spam mail has become one of the most widespread problems for email users worldwide.  Some users may receive hundreds of unwanted email messages advertising services and products every single day.  bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8332/1/Aladdin-eSafe-Offers-Dual-Anti-Spam-Engines/Aladdin-eSafe-Offers-Dual-Anti-Spam-Engines.html Aladdin Knowledge Systems, an information security vendor specializing in authentication, software DRM and content security, announced the release of Aladdin eSafe 6 Feature Release 2. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 13 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8330/1/SEC-halts-Beverage-Creations-trading-in-anti-spam-initiative/SEC-halts-Beverage-Creations-trading-in-anti-spam-initiative.html The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) temporarily suspended trading in the stock of Beverage Creations Inc. Wednesday, citing the possibility of manipulation in the stock's trading. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 13 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8245/1/Spam-Titanss-New-Release-of-VMware-Certified-Virtual-Email-Appliance/Spam-Titanss-New-Release-of-VMware-Certified-Virtual-Email-Appliance.html SpamTitan has solidified its position as a provider of solutions to the managed email service industry with release of its VMware certified virtual email appliance. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 12 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8244/1/Software-offers-dual-engine-protection-from-spam-and-malware/Software-offers-dual-engine-protection-from-spam-and-malware.html Aladdin eSafe First to Offer Dual Engine Protection from Spam and MalwareAladdin eSafe combines industry-tested, best-of-breed e-mail security engines to comprehensively block zero-hour spam and malware in real time bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 12 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8225/1/SpamTitans-New-Release-Provides-ISPs-With-Tools-to-Offer-Enhanced-Managed-Email-Services-to-Customers/SpamTitans-New-Release-Provides-ISPs-With-Tools-to-Offer-Enhanced-Managed-Email-Services-to-Cus.html SpamTitan, a leading producer of email security solutions, has solidified its position as a provider of solutions to the managed email service industry with the recent release of its VMware certified virtual email appliance. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 11 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8224/1/Kaspersky-Lab-Delivers-First-Anti-Malware-Solution-Certified-for-Windows-Server-2008/Kaspersky-Lab-Delivers-First-Anti-Malware-Solution-Certified-for-Windows-Server-2008.html Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of Internet threat management solutions that protect against all forms of malicious software, today announced that Kaspersky Anti-Virus for Windows Server Enterprise Edition is the first to earn a Windows Server 2008 software certification. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 11 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8147/1/The-411-on-Text-Msg-Spam/The-411-on-Text-Msg-Spam.html With so many text messages flying around these days, they've become fertile territory for spammers trying to expand their reach. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 11 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8145/1/Solve-a-Riddle-Today-Stop-Spam-Forever-LogSat-Software-Launches-Online-Contest----Daily-Winners-Receive-FREE-SpamFilter-Enterprise-License/Solve-a-Riddle-Today-Stop-Spam-Forever-LogSat-Software-Launches-Online-Contest----Daily-Winners-Re.html Tired of dealing with a daily overdose of spam? And looking for a way to avoid paying pricey licensing fees for software programs just to bring junk e-mail to an end? bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 11 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8144/1/Spam-to-get-clever-says-Postini/Spam-to-get-clever-says-Postini.html It would be the biggest non-surprise in the world to hear industry players say that spam and virus attacks will get worse. It's slightly more of a surprise, but still not shocking, bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 11 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8053/1/Text-message-spam-on-the-rise/Text-message-spam-on-the-rise.html The spam messages that have long plagued e-mail inboxes are now finding victims through a more personal route: the cellphone. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 10 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8052/1/-Was-Winston-Churchill-really-anti-Semitic/-Was-Winston-Churchill-really-anti-Semitic.html New York NotebookJournalists tend to want to hug anyone who makes a case for saying that their work is rather more than a first rough draft of history, but I think I'll pass on Nicholson Baker. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 10 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8033/1/-CADNA-Supports-Anti-Phishing-Consumer-Protection-Act/-CADNA-Supports-Anti-Phishing-Consumer-Protection-Act.html The Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse (CADNA), comprised of ten globally recognized brand-name companies, strongly supports the Anti-Phishing Consumer Protection Act (APCPA), introduced today by Senator Olympia Snowe (R-ME) and cosponsored by Senators Bill Nelson (D-FL) and Ted Stevens (R-AK). bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 26 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8032/1/Engate-Technology-Awarded-2008-Hot-Companies-Anti-Spam-Honor/Engate-Technology-Awarded-2008-Hot-Companies-Anti-Spam-Honor.html Engate Technology Corporation, a leading anti-spam supplier and pioneer of next generation network profiling and connection management security solutions, today announced that it has been named a recipient of the 2008 Hot Companies award by Silicon Valley. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 26 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8031/1/AdaptiveMobile-signs-with-Etisalat-to-offer-spam-protection-to-UAE-customers/AdaptiveMobile-signs-with-Etisalat-to-offer-spam-protection-to-UAE-customers.html UAE. Etisalat, the Middle East's leading telecommunications company based in the United Arab Emirates, today announced it will launch a new anti-spam service that provides its customers additional protection against the inconvenience caused by un-solicited SMS messages (spam) received from overseas sources. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 26 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8030/1/How-to-Fighting-spam/How-to-Fighting-spam.html The idea of saving millions of dollars annually would be a hit with any company. Combine it with increased end-user productivity and reduced network administrator headaches and you've got a home run. That's been Jason Sosinski's experience with MXtreme, a spam-fighting appliance from Borderware that his company installed last year. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 26 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8029/1/How-to-can-the-spam/How-to-can-the-spam.html When an employee sits down at his or her work computer, a number of spam or junk e-mails may be waiting in the inbox. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 26 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/8018/1/Europe-steps-forward-in-network-security-and-anti-spam-measures/Europe-steps-forward-in-network-security-and-anti-spam-measures.html The European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) recently published a follow up study on measures internet and e-mail service providers take to secure their services and limit spam and unsolicited e-mails. As less spam reaches its target (only 6% of all e-mail traffic actually reaches mailboxes), the public perceives the situation to be under control. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 22 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/7949/1/Stupid-Media-Watch-Europe-No-Wait-The-US-Tops-Spam-List/Stupid-Media-Watch-Europe-No-Wait-The-US-Tops-Spam-List.html Of all the lame, lazy assed, time-wasting reporting coming from the mainstream and tech press these days, the prize winners surely have to be the stories regurgitating Internet security firms’ assessments over which “countries” send the most spam. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 21 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/7948/1/Version-101-of-Peters-Random-Anti-Spam-Image-for-WordPress/Version-101-of-Peters-Random-Anti-Spam-Image-for-WordPress.html Here’s a spin-off of Peter’s Custom Anti-Spam Image for WordPress that will generate random anti-spam images instead of custom anti-spam images. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 21 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/7947/1/Spam-Proof-Email-Generator/Spam-Proof-Email-Generator.html The spam bots search the websites and create mailing list to send the spam. They take the email addresses written on your website page in text format and send you spam emails. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 21 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/7946/1/Deliverability-Support-Specialist-email-anti-spam-messaging/Deliverability-Support-Specialist-email-anti-spam-messaging.html Deliverability Support SpecialistWe are seeking a Deliverability Support Specialist for an excellent opportunity with a thriving organization in Atlanta, GA! This is a full time, direct hire opportunity with a growing technology company that is willing to invest in your growth and training! bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 21 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/7945/1/-Anti-spam-measures-can-cut-costs-to-your-business/-Anti-spam-measures-can-cut-costs-to-your-business.html What are you doing to protect your office and corporate environment from spam? bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 21 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/7875/1/Is-Gmail-losing-ground-in-the-spam-wars/Is-Gmail-losing-ground-in-the-spam-wars.html Gmail, which has been praised by its users for the strength and accuracy of its anti-spam filtering, may be falling behind in the ongoing battle with clever and resourceful spammers, according to Stan Schroder of Mashable in a post written today. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 20 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/7871/1/Japan-brings-down-Godzilla-of-spam/Japan-brings-down-Godzilla-of-spam.html Japanese police have arrested a "prolific spammer" who allegedly bombarded inboxes with hundreds of millions of messages punting internet gambling and dating sites. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 20 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/7753/1/Wired-Magazine-Says-Spam-Filters-Suck/Wired-Magazine-Says-Spam-Filters-Suck.html Now that I am in San Francisco for the MAAWG conference, I feel it is only appropriate that I give a plug to the magazine that made geekdome cool. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 19 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/7751/1/New-Release-of-M-Guardian-Ensures-Risk-Free-Email-With-Virtually-Zero-Administration-Overhead/New-Release-of-M-Guardian-Ensures-Risk-Free-Email-With-Virtually-Zero-Administration-Overhead.html Messaging Architects, the leader in risk management software and services for enterprise email, announced today the availability of M+Guardian 2008.1, the newest release of its email security and management gateway. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 19 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/7689/1/The-Economics-of-Spam/The-Economics-of-Spam.html Brightmail, a vendor of e-mail filters and anti-spam applications warned that close to 5 million spam "attacks" or "bursts" occurred in June 2002 and that spam has mushroomed 450 percent since June 2001. This pace continued unabated well into the beginning of 2004 when the introduction of spam filters began to take effect. PC World concurs. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 18 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/7687/1/Seven-tips-for-securing-your-organizations-network-from-spam-and-email-viruses/Seven-tips-for-securing-your-organizations-network-from-spam-and-email-viruses.html Seven tips for securing your organization's network from spam and email viruses bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 18 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/7686/1/How-Do-Anti-Spam-Solutions-Work/How-Do-Anti-Spam-Solutions-Work.html We have all suffered from these annoying dangerous spam emails. Most of us still do. There are excellent anti spam solutions in the market, there is no reason to tolerate this no more. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 18 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/7684/1/Stop-Spam-E-mails/Stop-Spam-E-mails.html In order to be able to stop Spam E-mails you have to know where those spam e-mails are coming from. Spam e-mails are ones that so called “spammers” send to addresses that they find from forums, websites, Usenet groups, chat services and other places. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 18 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/7683/1/Free-anti-spam-programs/Free-anti-spam-programs.html E-mail spam, also known as "bulk e-mail" or "junk e-mail," is a subset of spam that involves nearly identical messages sent to numerous recipients by e-mail. A common synonym for spam is unsolicited bulk e-mail (UBE). bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 18 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/7560/1/Abaca-Joins-Messaging-Anti-Abuse-Group/Abaca-Joins-Messaging-Anti-Abuse-Group.html Abaca Technology Corporation, an innovator in email protection and messaging security, announced today that it has joined the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG) as a supporting member. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 16 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/7559/1/Planned-Anti-spam-Platform-Maintenance---Friday-15th-February-300pm-Tuesday-19th-February-600pm/Planned-Anti-spam-Platform-Maintenance---Friday-15th-February-300pm-Tuesday-19th-February-600pm.html Duration of expected customer impact:-No negative customer impact is expected. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 16 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/7454/1/Autoresponders-and-Spam--What-You-Need-To-Know/Autoresponders-and-Spam--What-You-Need-To-Know.html There are laws against sending spam. There are even laws that you must adhere to when you send out email that was requested. No matter what type of email you are sending out, the chances are good that the anti-spam laws apply to you in some way. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 15 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/7453/1/Comodo-Antispam--Freeware/Comodo-Antispam--Freeware.html Comodo AntiSpam Desktop 2005 is an intuitive, easy-to-use, client-based software product that eliminates spam forever from your computer’s email system. It uses advanced user authentication technology featuring a powerful active-filtering algorithm, to authenticate the sender of each incoming email message. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 15 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/7332/1/IRS-spam-rockets-as-tax-deadline-nears/IRS-spam-rockets-as-tax-deadline-nears.html Scammers are increasingly taking advantage of next month's income tax deadline by distributing phishing emails seeking end-users' personal information. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 14 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/7331/1/Akismet-The-Anti-Spam-Tool-to-Censorship-Evolution/Akismet-The-Anti-Spam-Tool-to-Censorship-Evolution.html Akismet, the anti-spam plugin / tool we all know and depend on to filter millions of spam each day is being used to censor certain bloggers. Recently, someone or a group of people blacklisted my online-moniker, Small Potato. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 14 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/7209/1/House-passes-anti-spam-bill/House-passes-anti-spam-bill.html Junk e-mailers, beware. Legislation that would impose tougher sanctions against senders of spam is nearly halfway to becoming law. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 13 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/7207/1/Stupid-Media-Watch-Europe-No-Wait-The-US-Tops-Spam-List/Stupid-Media-Watch-Europe-No-Wait-The-US-Tops-Spam-List.html Of all the lame, lazy assed, time-wasting reporting coming from the mainstream and tech press these days, the prize winners surely have to be the stories regurgitating Internet security firms’ assessments over which “countries” send the most spam. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 13 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/7206/1/ESP-Makes-Mailers-Provide-their-own-Spam-Complaint-Button/ESP-Makes-Mailers-Provide-their-own-Spam-Complaint-Button.html Surely one of the greatest developments in the short history of e-mail marketing is the “report spam” button. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 13 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/7205/1/Study-Filter-Appliances-Serve-Users-Poorly---Leaking-Spam-Trapping-Good-Messages-and-Wasted-Time-Searching-Through-Folders/Study-Filter-Appliances-Serve-Users-Poorly---Leaking-Spam-Trapping-Good-Messages-and-Wasted-Time-S.html Brockmann & Company, the customer insight firm, released today their latest report on the email experience entitled User Experience with Filter Appliances. The report is available for a limited time for free at http://www.brockmann.com. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 13 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/7091/1/Google-Betters-Anti-spam--Data-Security-Firm/Google-Betters-Anti-spam--Data-Security-Firm.html When Google acquired Postini in July 2007, some business (along with some users) thought that the acquisition might be part of a move aimed at improving Google’s attractiveness to business customers. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 12 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/7090/1/Exclusive-MySpace-Introducing-New-Anti-Phishing-Measures-Tonight/Exclusive-MySpace-Introducing-New-Anti-Phishing-Measures-Tonight.html Last month, we reported on what appeared to be a splash page showing up between links on MySpace and the external sites to which they were pointed. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 12 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/7088/1/Spamdunk-Steps-Up-Efforts-Over-Small-Guy-Spam/Spamdunk-Steps-Up-Efforts-Over-Small-Guy-Spam.html Spamdunk Steps Up Efforts To Support 'Small Guy' SpamDeluge of extra spam prompts the provision of innovative service from SPAM innovators bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 12 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/7038/1/Can-I-help-the-FTC-fight-spam/Can-I-help-the-FTC-fight-spam.html Question: I have been receiving e-mail messages with my address in the "From" field. It looks like I sent them. When I look at the headers, I can see that someone else sends them. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 11 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/7037/1/ParetoLogics-Spam-Controls-Software-Has-the-Solution-For-Record-Setting-Mortgage-Spam/ParetoLogics-Spam-Controls-Software-Has-the-Solution-For-Record-Setting-Mortgage-Spam.html In the wake of the recent announcements of interest rate cuts by the US Federal Reserve, many people are being inundated with mortgage-related spam from companies trying to take advantage of the latest economic swing. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 11 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/6974/1/Fight-Spam-on-the-Internet/Fight-Spam-on-the-Internet.html You have probably seen an increase in the amount of "junk mail" which shows up in your email box, or on your favorite newsgroup.  bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 09 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/6973/1/Anti-Spam-the-best-way-to-fight-spam-bots/Anti-Spam-the-best-way-to-fight-spam-bots.html Anti spam fights spam botsThe purpose of this page is to make it so spammers who attempt to collect email addresses off the web, via programs, will not have real email addresses in their database. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 09 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/6972/1/Email-Service-is-also-offered-as-spam-filtering-service/Email-Service-is-also-offered-as-spam-filtering-service.html Tucows Email Service, available as fully hosted email service for web hosting companies and ISPs, also provides option of using spam and virus filtering in conjunction with existing email infrastructure. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 09 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/6891/1/Colorado-Wants-to-Be-as-Tough-on-Spam-as-CAN-SPAM-Act-Allows/Colorado-Wants-to-Be-as-Tough-on-Spam-as-CAN-SPAM-Act-Allows.html Colorado's House Judiciary Committee approved an interesting anti-spam measure yesterday. From what I can tell, the drafters intended to walk right up to the edge of what the CAN-SPAM Act permits without stepping over the line. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 08 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/6890/1/Piles-of-stock-spam-from-Gmail-last-couple-of-days/Piles-of-stock-spam-from-Gmail-last-couple-of-days.html In the last few days, I have started receiving piles of stock spam from Gmail touting the ticker symbol RQST.PK.  I see these spams in my Gmail account, my Frontbridge account and now my Yahoo account. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 08 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/6889/1/Mailing-list-moderation-and-anti-spam-filters/Mailing-list-moderation-and-anti-spam-filters.html Here's a question that has bugged me for a while, and to which I've never found a satisfactory answer. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 08 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/6888/1/Europes-The-New-Spam-Capital---Symantec-Report/Europes-The-New-Spam-Capital---Symantec-Report.html Don't be surprised if you see a Valentine's spam originating from Europe that was linked on Google (NSDQ:GOOG). bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 08 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/6887/1/Kaspersky-Anti-Virus-for-Windows-File-Servers-Earns-VB100-Award/Kaspersky-Anti-Virus-for-Windows-File-Servers-Earns-VB100-Award.html Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of Internet threat management solutions that protect against all forms of malicious software, today announces that Kaspersky Anti-Virus for Windows File Servers has received a VB100 award from Virus Bulletin. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 08 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/6812/1/Akismet-The-Anti-Spam-Tool-to-Censorship-Evolution/Akismet-The-Anti-Spam-Tool-to-Censorship-Evolution.html Akismet, the anti-spam plugin / tool we all know and depend on to filter millions of spam each day is being used to censor certain bloggers. Recently, someone or a group of people blacklisted my online-moniker, Small Potato. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 07 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/6808/1/Judge-orders-end-to-weight-loss-anti-aging-spam-operation/Judge-orders-end-to-weight-loss-anti-aging-spam-operation.html A U.S. judge has ordered a Las Vegas company to stop making weight-loss and anti-aging claims and to stop sending unsolicited e-mail, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission announced Monday. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 07 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/6702/1/Why-Spam-Wont-Go-Away/Why-Spam-Wont-Go-Away.html It's not just e-mail. We have voice-over-IP spam, instant message spam, cellphone text message spam, blog comment spam and Usenet newsgroup spam. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 06 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/6701/1/Judge-orders-end-to-weight-loss-anti-aging-spam-operation/-Judge-orders-end-to-weight-loss-anti-aging-spam-operation.html A U.S. judge has ordered a Las Vegas company to stop making weight-loss and anti-aging claims and to stop sending unsolicited e-mail, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission announced Monday. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 06 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/6700/1/Google-strikes-with-unbeatable-hosted-anti-spam-and-anti-virus-product/Google-strikes-with-unbeatable-hosted-anti-spam-and-anti-virus-product.html I recently wrote about the excellent Google domains product. Well, now its possible to use just the security 'component' of Google domains and combine it with any mail server. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 06 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/6699/1/New-anti-spam-and-stats-solution/New-anti-spam-and-stats-solution.html I’ve done some maintenance to the site. A few things have been changed: bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 06 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/6698/1/Exchange-Server-2007-SP1-disables-Exchange-Anti-spam-updates/Exchange-Server-2007-SP1-disables-Exchange-Anti-spam-updates.html Here is the anti-spam configuration on an Exchange Server 2007 RTM server: bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 06 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/6605/1/Akismet-The-Anti-Spam-Tool-to-Censorship-Evolution/Akismet-The-Anti-Spam-Tool-to-Censorship-Evolution.html Akismet, the anti-spam plugin / tool we all know and depend on to filter millions of spam each day is being used to censor certain bloggers. Recently, someone or a group of people blacklisted my online-moniker, Small Potato. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 05 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/6602/1/Mega-D-Spam-Surpasses-Storm-Botnet/Mega-D-Spam-Surpasses-Storm-Botnet.html Another botnet has overtaken the infamous Storm botnet as the largest single source of the world's spam, according to Marshal's TRACE team. "Mega-D," a botnet that heavily promotes male sexual enhancement pills, currently accounts for 32 percent of all spam in circulation. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 05 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/6600/1/MYOB-forum-overrun-by-adult-spam/MYOB-forum-overrun-by-adult-spam.html A forum set up to assist users of MYOB accounting software has been so heavily crippled by spam that users have now been forced to join other help forums, and its owner to offload the site to somebody who can better manage it. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 05 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/6559/1/CP-Secure-joins-with-Commtouch-anti-spam-for-content-security/CP-Secure-joins-with-Commtouch-anti-spam-for-content-security.html CP Secure Inc. and Commtouch Inc. announced last week that CP Secure will add Commtouch's Anti-Spam solution to its Content Security Gateway (CSG) network security appliances. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 04 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/6557/1/Blocking-user-accounts-and-anti-spam-solutions/Blocking-user-accounts-and-anti-spam-solutions.html  Hi,Our wiki has become prey to spammers, even after having added e-mailconfirmation for accounts. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 04 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/6556/1/My-New-Anti-Spam-Math-Anti-Spam-Plugin/My-New-Anti-Spam-Math-Anti-Spam-Plugin.html Today, I have changed my Captcha anti-spam to Math anti-spam. This is in response to commentators’ complaints regarding their comments just vanishing in thin air after having written some 200 or more words. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 04 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/6555/1/Cyber-Criminals-Sending-More-Mortgage-Themed-Spam/Cyber-Criminals-Sending-More-Mortgage-Themed-Spam.html These spams have jumped to 10 per cent of all spam in the past week, after the recent interest rate cut by the US Federal Reserve. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 04 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/6554/1/Microsofts-Offer-to-Buy-Yahoo-An-Anti-Spam-Point-of-View/Microsofts-Offer-to-Buy-Yahoo-An-Anti-Spam-Point-of-View.html Last Friday, Microsoft made an unsolicited offer to buy Yahoo for $31 per share, representing over a 50% premium from Yahoo’s then-share price. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 04 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/6467/1/ONLINE-ONLY-Stop-the-flood-of-junk-mail-spam-telemarketers/ONLINE-ONLY-Stop-the-flood-of-junk-mail-spam-telemarketers.html Does the unwanted information flooding your life make you want to go against the flow?Few people like to be stopped midbite to answer unsolicited sales calls during dinner. Then again, maybe you're having spam - the kind that clogs your e-mail inbox until you can't find the messages you actually want. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 02 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/6458/1/SURBL-Anti-Spam-Technique/SURBL-Anti-Spam-Technique.html A quite common type of spam message is now a very short message of the form:    * WordsJoinedUpLikeThis    * http://somedomain.comThis sort of message is very difficult to detect using content analysis techniques. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 02 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/6456/1/The-High-Cost-of-Text-Message-Spam-For-Cell-Phone-Users/The-High-Cost-of-Text-Message-Spam-For-Cell-Phone-Users.html Cell phone service providers are trying to block the millions of annoying spam text messages customers receive every single day. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 02 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/6455/1/Postini-Anti-spam-Update/Postini-Anti-spam-Update.html You may recall back in November we announced our partnership with email security experts Postini. We've steadily been migrating customers across to the new anti-spam platform and we now have just under three quarters of our customers with their email being filtered by the new Postini systems. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 02 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/6453/1/Anti-spam-plugin/Anti-spam-plugin.html For the last couple of weeks I’ve had an anti-spam plugin, Askimet, working.  It has caught 1,154 comment spam to date. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 02 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/6425/1/Computer-Geeks-to-market-Engate-Anti-Spam-security/Computer-Geeks-to-market-Engate-Anti-Spam-security.html Engate Technology Corporation has announced that it has signed a distribution agreement with Computer Geeks. Under the agreement, Computer Geeks will market and support Engate’s network profiling anti-spam products for service providers, enterprises and businesses. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/6423/1/Importance-of-Anti-Spam/Importance-of-Anti-Spam.html We have become a society significantly dependent on the computer as the Internet continues to expand and offer greater resources that increase our functionality and ability to communicate more effectively. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/6422/1/-Can-RPD-Anti-Spam-technology-save-you-money-on-your-mortgage/-Can-RPD-Anti-Spam-technology-save-you-money-on-your-mortgage.html Research by Commtouch, the supplier of the RPD technology used in Gordano's GMS Anti-Spam Service, shows that mortgage-related spam comprised 10% of all spam in the last week, up from 2% in Q407. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/6421/1/Doctor-Web-Ltd-Announces-the-Release-of-a-New-Anti-virus-Product-for-Windows-Mobile/Doctor-Web-Ltd-Announces-the-Release-of-a-New-Anti-virus-Product-for-Windows-Mobile.html Dr.Web anti-virus for Windows Mobile protects mobile devices - pocket PCs and communicators - that run Windows Mobile 2003/2003 SE/5.0./6.0 bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/6420/1/DrWeb-Enterprise-Suite-444---next-generation-of-anti-virus-and-anti-spam-protection-of-corporate-networks/DrWeb-Enterprise-Suite-444---next-generation-of-anti-virus-and-anti-spam-protection-of-corporate-n.html Dr.Web Enterprise Suite is a client-server application capable of protecting a company of any size: from small companies to enterprises with dozens of thousands of workstations in their networks. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/6324/1/Anti-Spam-Turing-Test-Is-Really-Global-Human-Powered-OCR-System/Anti-Spam-Turing-Test-Is-Really-Global-Human-Powered-OCR-System.html You know the test you have to take on Digg or Facebook, the one that proves you're a human? You see a hard-to-read word or string of gibberish, and you type in the correct characters. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/6323/1/Mortgage-spam-spikes-due-to-Federal-Reserve-rate-cut/Mortgage-spam-spikes-due-to-Federal-Reserve-rate-cut.html Spammers have taken advantage of the U.S. mortgage crisis to intensify the amount of financial junk mail sent to end-users. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/6322/1/10-tips-to-avoid-spam/10-tips-to-avoid-spam.html Spam is a fact of internet life. According to recent figures from the security software industry, more than 80% of email traffic is made up of spam. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/6321/1/Technology-Leader-SECNAP-Introduces-Hosted-Spam-Solution/Technology-Leader-SECNAP-Introduces-Hosted-Spam-Solution.html SECNAP(R) Network Security Corporation today announced the addition of an innovative hosted spam solution to the company's extensive anti-spam product line. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/6320/1/Sex-Shopping-Money-Chinese-Internet-Users-Receive-Spam-Emails/Sex-Shopping-Money-Chinese-Internet-Users-Receive-Spam-Emails.html According to the latest report issued by the Anti-Spam Center of the Internet Society of China, each Internet user in China received an average of 330 spam emails in 2007 and these spam emails caused at least RMB18.72 billion in losses to China's national economy. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/6254/1/Marshal-integrates-Cloudmark-to-increase-spam-detection/Marshal-integrates-Cloudmark-to-increase-spam-detection.html Marshal integrates Cloudmark Technology to Augment its leading Anti-Spam Engine and Provide Even Faster and More Consistent Spam Detection. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 30 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/6253/1/CP-Secure-Selects-Commtouch-Anti-Spam-for-Content-Security-Gateway-Appliance/CP-Secure-Selects-Commtouch-Anti-Spam-for-Content-Security-Gateway-Appliance.html CP Secure Inc. and Commtouch(R) (NASDAQ:CTCHD) today announced that CP Secure will add Commtouch's Anti-Spam solution to its Content Security Gateway (CSG) network security appliances. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 30 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/6251/1/-CP-Secure-Selects-Commtouch-Anti-Spam-for-Content-Security-Gateway-Appliance/-CP-Secure-Selects-Commtouch-Anti-Spam-for-Content-Security-Gateway-Appliance.html CP Secure Inc. and Commtouch® (NASDAQ:CTCHD) today announced that CP Secure will add Commtouch’s Anti-Spam solution to its Content Security Gateway (CSG) network security appliances. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 30 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/6250/1/NSW-teachers-give-top-marks-to-hosted-anti-spam/NSW-teachers-give-top-marks-to-hosted-anti-spam.html The NSW Teachers Credit Union (TCU) has reduced network downtime and freed-up IT resources by replacing its in-house anti-spam software with a hosted solution. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 30 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/6249/1/The-Spamhaus-PBL-a-one-year-old-anti-spam-heavyweight/The-Spamhaus-PBL-a-one-year-old-anti-spam-heavyweight.html One year ago this month, Spamhaus launched the Policy Block List, also known as the PBL. Now a year later we look back to see what effect it has had. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 30 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/6132/1/Some-patterns-for-spam-in-my-inboxes/Some-patterns-for-spam-in-my-inboxes.html I am lately seeing some odd patterns for spam in my various inboxes. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/6131/1/NSW-teachers-give-top-marks-to-hosted-anti-spam/NSW-teachers-give-top-marks-to-hosted-anti-spam.html The NSW Teachers Credit Union (TCU) has reduced network downtime and freed-up IT resources by replacing its in-house anti-spam software with a hosted solution. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/6129/1/Dr-Web-Anti-virus-for-Windows-Mobile-Protection-from-Non-existent-Threats-Must-Be-Free/Dr-Web-Anti-virus-for-Windows-Mobile-Protection-from-Non-existent-Threats-Must-Be-Free.html Doctor Web, Ltd., a Russian developer of IT security solutions, announces the release of a new product - Dr.Web anti-virus for Windows Mobile. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/6128/1/Web-Form-Spam-Link-Spam-Statistics/Web-Form-Spam-Link-Spam-Statistics.html Protectwebform carried out its own research in the field of form-spam. During many months we analyzed spam messages, which were entered in forms, provided by our company. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/6126/1/Anti-Spam/Anti-Spam.html I'm using a new anti-spam solution called Sendio I.C.E. (Intercept, Confirm or Eliminate) and I'm fairly impressed so far. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/6050/1/Peters-Custom-Anti-Spam-for-input-forms-Version-10/Peters-Custom-Anti-Spam-for-input-forms-Version-10.html I decided to do a spin-off of my custom anti-spam image plugin for WordPress since people kept asking for it to be made available normal forms. Check out the eZ Publish version of this plugin if you are running eZ Publish 3.8+. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 28 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/6049/1/Some-patterns-for-spam-in-my-inboxes/Some-patterns-for-spam-in-my-inboxes.html I am lately seeing some odd patterns for spam in my various inboxes. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 28 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/6048/1/So-sorry----didnt-mean-to-spam-you/So-sorry----didnt-mean-to-spam-you.html WHILE playing around recently with Facebook's most popular application, Super Wall -- essentially a virtual blackboard that allows users to post text, audio, videos and even original "graffiti" on one another's profile pages -- I apparently sent an image of two half-dressed women kissing while perched atop a pair of beer kegs -- to seventy-six of my friends. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 28 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/5940/1/Marshal-Integrates-Cloudmark-Technology-to-Augment-Leading-Anti-Spam-Engine-and-Provide-Even-Faster-and-More-Consistent-Spam-Detection/Marshal-Integrates-Cloudmark-Technology-to-Augment-Leading-Anti-Spam-Engine-and-Provide-Even-Faster.html Integrated email and Internet content provider Marshal and Cloudmark, Inc., the global leader in carrier-grade messaging security, today announced a partnership to integrate Cloudmark’s best-of-breed message filtering technology into the new SpamProfiler layer of Marshal’s multilayered Defense-in-Depth Anti-Spam Engine. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 26 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/5939/1/Diggs-Florida-Update-Digg-Anti-Spam-1-Linkbaiters-0/Diggs-Florida-Update-Digg-Anti-Spam-1-Linkbaiters-0.html If you’re a n00b in the SEO world, you may not know about the Florida Update–basically, it was the single day in history when Google rolled out a new algo and thousands of SEOs said to each other, “Dammit, Google finally got smart.” bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 26 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/5938/1/EMUs-New-Anti-SPAM-System/EMUs-New-Anti-SPAM-System.html At the last meeting of the E-mail Selection Committee (yes we are meeting), we discussed the new anti-spam system EMU is using. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 26 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/5936/1/TZ-Anti-Spam-Filter-3000-description/TZ-Anti-Spam-Filter-3000-description.html Eliminate Junk E-Mail Spam, Spyware, Viruses & Tojans. Works with POP3, IMAP, HTTP servers like Yahoo! & Hotmail. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 26 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/5934/1/SEC-Takes-Anti-Spam-Initiative---SEC-Suspends-Trading-IN-Securities-Of-Asia-Pacific-Energey-Inc-And-Bolivar-Mining-Corp--/SEC-Takes-Anti-Spam-Initiative---SEC-Suspends-Trading-IN-Securities-Of-Asia-Pacific-Energey-Inc-And.html Legal Newswire - As part of its Anti-Spam initiative, the Securities and Exchange Commission ("Commission" or "SEC") today announced the temporary suspension, pursuant to Section 12(k) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the "Exchange Act"), of trading in the securities of the following issuers, commencing at 9:30 a.m. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 26 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/5820/1/How-does-simpleContact-deal-with-spam/How-does-simpleContact-deal-with-spam.html This is a question I’m asked on a regular basis, so in lieu of a dedicated FAQs page I’ll answer it here. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/5818/1/EMUs-New-Anti-SPAM-System/EMUs-New-Anti-SPAM-System.html At the last meeting of the E-mail Selection Committee (yes we are meeting), we discussed the new anti-spam system EMU is using. Tonight (01/24/08) I received an email from ICT sharing some stats on the system performance. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/5817/1/Diggs-Florida-Update-Digg-Anti-Spam-1-Linkbaiters-0/Diggs-Florida-Update-Digg-Anti-Spam-1-Linkbaiters-0.html If you’re a n00b in the SEO world, you may not know about the Florida Update–basically, it was the single day in history when Google rolled out a new algo and thousands of SEOs said to each other, “Dammit, Google finally got smart.” bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/5816/1/Anti-Spam-DNS-Black-lists/Anti-Spam-DNS-Black-lists.html I am running IMail Server 8.05, and have configured over a dozen Anti-Spam DNS Blacklists. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/5814/1/SEC-Takes-Anti-Spam-Initiative---SEC-Suspends-Trading-IN-Securities-Of-Asia-Pacific-Energey-Inc-And-Bolivar-Mining-Corp--/SEC-Takes-Anti-Spam-Initiative---SEC-Suspends-Trading-IN-Securities-Of-Asia-Pacific-Energey-Inc-And.html Legal Newswire - As part of its Anti-Spam initiative, the Securities and Exchange Commission ("Commission" or "SEC") today announced the temporary suspension, pursuant to Section 12(k) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the "Exchange Act"), of trading in the securities of the following issuers, commencing at 9:30 a.m. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/5706/1/Best-Anti-Spam-Software/Best-Anti-Spam-Software.html Are you looking for the best anti spam software?Spyware refers to an application designed to track a computer user's internet activities, keep note of sites visited, and gather other information. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/5705/1/Exclaimer-Anti-Spam-for-Exchange-401-description/Exclaimer-Anti-Spam-for-Exchange-401-description.html Exclaimer Anti-Spam is one of the most powerful and accurate anti-spam systems available. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/5704/1/Anti-Spam/Anti-Spam.html Anti-spam software is a necessary, important safeguard for computers that use the internet extensively. While it isn't anywhere near an anti-virus program that can remove viruses from infected files, it does prevent most unsolicited advertisements and messages in the form of newsletters and junk mail from getting into the system. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/5702/1/-GMail-and-Spam/-GMail-and-Spam.html Wisdom Consulting Group migrated from Microsoft Exchange to GMail in November 2007. GMail’s anti-spam measures were a big reason for the upgrade. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/5701/1/Spam-and-biology-a-match-made-in-heaven/Spam-and-biology-a-match-made-in-heaven.html IBM has used bioinformatics software for spam detection, and Microsoft is working on life science problems using anti-spam software. Looks like these might be more than just one-offs. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/5590/1/Exclaimer-Anti-Spam-for-Exchange-401-description/Exclaimer-Anti-Spam-for-Exchange-401-description.html Exclaimer Anti-Spam is one of the most powerful and accurate anti-spam systems available. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 23 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/5589/1/Anti-Spam/Anti-Spam.html Anti-spam software is a necessary, important safeguard for computers that use the internet extensively. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 23 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/5586/1/Planned-Anti-spam-Maintenance---Wednesday-23rd-January-600am-700am/Planned-Anti-spam-Maintenance---Wednesday-23rd-January-600am-700am.html Maintenance Window:-Wednesday 23rd January 6:00am-7:00am.Service Affected:-Email. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 23 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/5584/1/Ikea-rapped-for-flat-pack-spam/Ikea-rapped-for-flat-pack-spam.html Security firm Tier-3 has warned companies to review IT security arrangements following a potentially serious spam incident that affected the email servers of furniture giant Ikea. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 23 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/5583/1/Spam-Wars-When-Good-Geeks-Say-Bad-Things/Spam-Wars-When-Good-Geeks-Say-Bad-Things.html Last week I was reminded once again that even among some of the most highly educated and technically capable people in the world, the fight against unwanted junk email remains fraught with anger and vitriol – often directed at those who are trying to stop it! bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 23 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/5464/1/Features-And-Benefits-Of-Anti-Spam-Software/Features-And-Benefits-Of-Anti-Spam-Software.html Before you download and install anti-Spam software understand what it does and how you are going to benefit by installing one on your computer. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 22 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/5462/1/What-Is-Anti-Spam-Software/What-Is-Anti-Spam-Software.html Anti Spam software is a necessity because Spam compromises the security of your computers and exposes it to various risks besides being a permanent source of botheration. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 22 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/5460/1/New-MailMarshal-Release-Provides-Anti-Spam-Detection-That-Turns-Off-Spam-Instantly/New-MailMarshal-Release-Provides-Anti-Spam-Detection-That-Turns-Off-Spam-Instantly.html Integrated email and Internet content provider Marshal today announced the availability of MailMarshal SMTP 6.4, the newest release of its email security and management gateway, powered by an extended Defense-in-Depth Anti-Spam Engine that blocks in excess of 99.5% spam consistently. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 22 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/5459/1/Best-Anti-Spam-Software/Best-Anti-Spam-Software.html Are you looking for the best anti spam software?Spyware refers to an application designed to track a computer user's internet activities, keep note of sites visited, and gather other information. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 22 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/5457/1/Free-anti-spam-program/Free-anti-spam-program.html Q:I know I can get spam-fighting software as part of an Internet security suite. Can you recommend a stand-alone anti-spam program that's free? bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 22 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/5330/1/Anti-spam-Theater/Anti-spam-Theater.html When I stumbled across John Gilmore’s argument against the heavy-handed tactics of the anti-spam cabal a while back, I was surprised to find it pretty compelling. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 21 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/5329/1/Sunbelt-upgrades-iHateSpam-anti-spam-software/Sunbelt-upgrades-iHateSpam-anti-spam-software.html Sunbelt Software USA, a provider of Windows security and management software, announced Wednesday a major upgrade of its anti-spam software, iHateSpam. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 21 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/5328/1/Plugin-Spam-Karma-2-Anti-Spam-Plugin-for-WordPress/Plugin-Spam-Karma-2-Anti-Spam-Plugin-for-WordPress.html Spam Karma 2 (SK2) is an anti-spam plugin for the WordPress blogging platform. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 21 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/5327/1/Enhancing-Akismet-with-reCAPTCHA-Simple-Spam-Filter-05/Enhancing-Akismet-with-reCAPTCHA-Simple-Spam-Filter-05.html The really Simple Spam Filter plugin I wrote a couple months back has been doing a great job at blocking the really obvious spam. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 21 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/5325/1/SonicWALL-launches-new-Anti-Spam-desktop-solution/SonicWALL-launches-new-Anti-Spam-desktop-solution.html The holiday buying season is likely to generate a wave of phishing attacks in January 2008, according to seasonal data collected by SonicWALL, Inc. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 21 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/5180/1/MailMarshal-claims-995-percent-spam-detection/MailMarshal-claims-995-percent-spam-detection.html Marshal claims the latest version of its MailMarshal SMTP multi-layered anti-spam product consistently blocks over 99.5 percent of unwanted messages. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 18 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/5179/1/Student-develops-anti-spam-program/Student-develops-anti-spam-program.html If regular filters can’t stop spam from taking over your inbox, computer science graduate student David Erickson has got your back with Default Off Email (DOEmail), which Erickson developed in tandem with Associate Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Nick McKeown. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 18 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/5177/1/Choosing-Anti-Spam-Software-That-Is-Right-For-You/Choosing-Anti-Spam-Software-That-Is-Right-For-You.html It is believed that on an average, an email user receives more than 2000 Spam emails every year! By certain accounts, an email user receives more than 77 percent of the mail as spam - which is around 10 out of every 13 emails you receive! More than two-thirds of the email passing through the air waves are pure junk - unwanted and unsolicited. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 18 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/5176/1/MailWasher-Free-61-Major-Upgrade-with-Better-Spam-Blocking-More-Features-and-a-New-Look-Now-with/MailWasher-Free-61-Major-Upgrade-with-Better-Spam-Blocking-More-Features-and-a-New-Look-Now-with.html Firetrust Limited, provider of award-winning anti-spam and email security solutions, today announced the latest release and major upgrade of the free version of MailWasher, a uniquely designed spam filter tool that provides additional protection for businesses and home users from unsolicited and unwanted emails. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 18 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/5174/1/Anti-spammer-fined-60K-for-DNS-lookup-hack/Anti-spammer-fined-60K-for-DNS-lookup-hack.html David Ritz, the veteran American spam-fighter, has been hit by $60,000 in fines plus lawyers fees after losing a civil suit that accused him of illegal hacking. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 18 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/5049/1/Choosing-Anti-Spam-Software-That-Is-Right-For-You/Choosing-Anti-Spam-Software-That-Is-Right-For-You.html It is believed that on an average, an email user receives more than 2000 Spam emails every year! By certain accounts, an email user receives more than 77 percent of the mail as spam - which is around 10 out of every 13 emails you receive! More than two-thirds of the email passing through the air waves are pure junk - unwanted and unsolicited. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 17 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/5047/1/MailMarshal-claims-995-percent-spam-detection/MailMarshal-claims-995-percent-spam-detection.html Marshal claims the latest version of its MailMarshal SMTP multi-layered anti-spam product consistently blocks over 99.5 percent of unwanted messages. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 17 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/5046/1/-Proofpoint-Reports-Spam-Email-Trends-for-December-2007-Enterprise-Spam-Volumes-Rise-to-Higher-than-90-Attachment-based-Spam-Declines/-Proofpoint-Reports-Spam-Email-Trends-for-December-2007-Enterprise-Spam-Volumes-Rise-to-Higher-than.html Proofpoint, Inc., the leading provider of unified email security and data loss prevention solutions, today reported spam trends for data collected during the month of December 2007, finding that, on average, spam represents more than 90% of the total email volume received by large enterprises. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 17 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/5044/1/Firm-refills-coffers-with-hosted-anti-spam/Firm-refills-coffers-with-hosted-anti-spam.html A Melbourne accounting firm has saved $600 in excess bandwidth costs by using a hosted reputation spam filter. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 17 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/5043/1/Engate-Technology-Awarded-New-Patent-for-Anti-Spam-Threat-Protection/Engate-Technology-Awarded-New-Patent-for-Anti-Spam-Threat-Protection.html Engate Technology Corporation, a leading anti-spam supplier and pioneer of next generation network profiling and connection management security solutions, announced today that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has approved the issuance of Patent No. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 17 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/4917/1/Trend-Micro-Testing-Anti-Botnet-Utility/Trend-Micro-Testing-Anti-Botnet-Utility.html Trend Micro is testing a nifty anti-botnet utility capable of listening for botnet-related traffic on infected Windows machines. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 12 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/4816/1/Spam-King-Indicted/Spam-King-Indicted.html On Tuesday, I reported about how the Spam King lived large.  Well, if  U.S. Attorney Stephen Murphy has his way, he will be doing it from a small room.  (I believe the Genie from Disney's Aladdin said, "Phenomenal Cosmic Power! Itty-bitty living space.") bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 11 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/4814/1/Anti-Spam-Golden-Rules--Dont-Whitelist-Your-Domain/Anti-Spam-Golden-Rules--Dont-Whitelist-Your-Domain.html Have you learnt lessons when configuring an anti-spam product that you would recommend others to follow? Today we start a column of practical tidbits that could make all of the difference when configuring a filter.Having the right tools and knowing how to use them is the most fundamental rule in getting any job done. Anti-spam is no exception, effective filtering boils down to having the right technologies and employing them correctly. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 11 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/4813/1/Anti-spam-solution/Anti-spam-solution.html I tried the following anti spam measure and until todayit works 100%, no spam bot registration at all. Before, I had about two or threeper week. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 11 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/4811/1/Do-you-know-of-any-effective-anti-spam-plugin/Do-you-know-of-any-effective-anti-spam-plugin.html Do any of you guys know of good anti-spam plugin for WP? As you can see from the screenshot to thespam comments right, SPAM are really wasting my time. I used to use Peter’s Custom Anti Spam before, it worked fine but I was still getting about 50-100 SPAM comments a day. After that few days ago, I changed to reCAPTCHA. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 11 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/4810/1/Spam-levels-reach-95-per-cent-in-2007/Spam-levels-reach-95-per-cent-in-2007.html Spam accounted for 95 per cent of all email traffic in 2007 as spammers grew increasingly brazen and diverse in their attack strategies, according to anti-spam firm SpamStopsHere.Spammers were in full throttle developing new spamming techniques and attacks that have not been seen in previous years. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 11 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/4738/1/MailWasher-Free-61-Major-Upgrade-with-Better-Spam-Blocking-More-Features-and-a-New-Look-Now-with-over-8-Million-Users-Worldwide/MailWasher-Free-61-Major-Upgrade-with-Better-Spam-Blocking-More-Features-and-a-New-Look-Now-with.html Firetrust Limited, provider of award-winning anti-spam and email security solutions, today announced the latest release and major upgrade of the free version of MailWasher, a uniquely designed spam filter tool that provides additional protection for businesses and home users from unsolicited and unwanted emails. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 10 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/4737/1/BETT-Brunel-tackles-harrassment-with-anti-spam/BETT-Brunel-tackles-harrassment-with-anti-spam.html Brunel University uses IronMail to target online harrassment to protect their 13,000 students.Violent, threatening emails are now quarantined and trackable at Brunel University, letting the IT team prevent online harrasment and track those guilty to help protect their students.In a six-figure investment, the West London university signed up for Secure Computing's IronMail system just over three years ago in order to help them manage the deluge of incoming email, but it was quickly put to a more specific use when one of their 13,000 students was subjected to harrasment via email. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 10 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/4659/1/Useless-spam-laws/Useless-spam-laws.html Most states in the US, and indeed many jurisdictions around the world, have enacted some form of anti-spam legislation. But it's done nothing to stop the onslaught and indeed, the problem seems to be getting worse.David Sorkin, Associate Professor of Law at the John Marshall Law School in Illinois, says the spam legislation is not only ineffective. It might actually backfire and make things worse. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 09 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/4657/1/Anti-spam-re-classifying-SPAM/Anti-spam-re-classifying-SPAM.html Like many people out there, I also have my mailserver check for spam using SpamAssassin. I have SA configured to add a tag to the subject line of identified SPAM messages and then I have a filter in Outlook to dump all those in the Junk Mail folder. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 09 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/4655/1/User-Group-Meeting--SELCOs-Anti-SPAM-Protection/User-Group-Meeting--SELCOs-Anti-SPAM-Protection.html Mick Reese saw need for improvement to our anti-SPAM protection at SELCO on his first day on the job. A SPAM message found his way into his email, thus completely disproving Bill Gate’s promise in 2004 to fix this problem for us. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 09 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/4654/1/Global-Spam-Remain-High/Global-Spam-Remain-High.html Commtouch® (Nasdaq: CTCHD) released its 2007 Q4 Email Threats Trend Report, based on the automated analysis of billions of email messages weekly. The report examines recent trends in email threats such as the growth and development of zombie botnets that disseminate a range of Internet threats including spam, malware, phishing and distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 09 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/4561/1/Is-Akismet-The-Best-Tool-To-Block-WordPress-Comment-Spam/Is-Akismet-The-Best-Tool-To-Block-WordPress-Comment-Spam.html I’ve just decided to switch back to using Akismet to protect this site from comment spam. In the past I wasn’t a big fan of Akismet, because it didn’t provide a lot of ways to deal with false positives, but I feel that I need to try something new as too much spam has been getting through. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 08 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/4559/1/-gotroot-modsecurity-Rules-for-Apache---Anti-spam-and-Security/-gotroot-modsecurity-Rules-for-Apache---Anti-spam-and-Security.html To follow on from Whitetrash which I posted about previously, here is another tool to secure your web site or web application. Essentially it’s a very comprehensive set of rules for mod_security.ModSecurity is an open source intrusion detection and prevention engine for web applications (or a web application firewall). Operating as an Apache Web server module or standalone, the purpose of ModSecurity is to increase web application security, protecting web applications from known and unknown attacks. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 08 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/4557/1/Peters-Random-Anti-Spam-Image-Version-11-for-eZ-Publish-38-/Peters-Random-Anti-Spam-Image-Version-11-for-eZ-Publish-38-.html I’ve spun off my anti-spam WordPress plugin — this time for eZ Publish!I work for eZ Systems, the maker of eZ Publish, as an editor. So I certainly don’t have awesome technical skills, but I’ve managed to create an extension for eZ Publish to help fight comment spam (just as the comment plugin on this blog works where you have to type in the anti-spam word before being submitting a comment). eZ Publish is a rockin’ Open Source Enterprise Content Management System. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 08 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/4443/1/NOV-11-2002-Spam-king-lives-large-off-others-e-mail-troubles/NOV-11-2002-Spam-king-lives-large-off-others-e-mail-troubles.html You might call it the house that spam built.Alan Ralsky's brand new 8,000-square-foot luxury home near Halsted and Maple in West Bloomfield has been a busy place this month. Outside, landscapers worked against the November cold to get a sprinkler system installed before the ground freezes. Inside, painters prepared to hang wallpaper. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 07 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/4441/1/LetsHost-Unveils-Anti-Spam-Solution/LetsHost-Unveils-Anti-Spam-Solution.html New anti-spam solution provides protection against all known viruses and stops 99.9 percent of spam messages.LetsHost, a Dublin, Ireland-based Web host, has unveiled its new Anti Spam solution. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 07 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/4439/1/Engate-Enhances-Anti-Spam-Global-Partner-Program-to-Deliver-Incremental-Value-to-Hardware-and-Software-OEMs/Engate-Enhances-Anti-Spam-Global-Partner-Program-to-Deliver-Incremental-Value-to-Hardware-and-Softwa.html Engate Technology Corporation has announced an enhancement to its Anti-Spam Global Partner Program with a specialized OEM program designed for software and hardware vendors ranging anywhere from anti-spam software, gateways and security appliances to firewalls, routers and unified threat management systems. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 07 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/4437/1/Iteamic-deploys-an-anti-spam-solution/Iteamic-deploys-an-anti-spam-solution.html The company has found the ideal solution tailored for its e-mail and Web requirements in IronPort’s Mail Gateway Appliance and Web Security Appliance, writes Nivedan PrakashBangalore-based Iteamic is a software services company servicing start-ups, small and mid-sized companies. Its primary service lines are product development and application management services for the Banking, Finance, Security and Insurance (BFSI) sector. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 07 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/4435/1/LetsHost-Announces-the-Launch-of-its-Anti-Spam-Solution-That-Picks-Up-From-Where-the-Standard-Score-Based-Anti-Spam-Solutions-Stop/LetsHost-Announces-the-Launch-of-its-Anti-Spam-Solution-That-Picks-Up-From-Where-the-Standard-Score.html LetsHost announces the launch of its Anti Spam solution that picks up from where the standard score based anti-spam solutions. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 07 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/4433/1/No-Spam-no-Junk-Now-Send-Your-Emails-with-Confidence/No-Spam-no-Junk-Now-Send-Your-Emails-with-Confidence.html Simple Mail Manager provides a certified system which is fully ascribed by Surety Mail, the trusted email authorityBirmingham, December 07, 2007. Simple Mail Manager started its services few months ago and very early it has been able to obtain accreditation by Surety Mail, one of a small number of trusted email authorities, whose clients’ messages are not treated as spam. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 07 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/4312/1/Geek-Project-How-to-Drastically-Limit-Spam-on-phpBB-Forums/Geek-Project-How-to-Drastically-Limit-Spam-on-phpBB-Forums.html So, you run a phpBB forum… and you spend most of your time deleting spam, deleting bogus new forum members… and you are about to just give up and close the sucker down! WAIT! Try these steps first! bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 05 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/4310/1/Dspam--Postini-anti-spam-false-Positives/Dspam--Postini-anti-spam-false-Positives.html This is an update to the previously reported problem resulting in customers on the new Postini anti-spam platform seeing an inordinate amount of legitimate email being tagged as [-SPAM-] by our old spam filters. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 05 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/4309/1/Can-digital-identity-curb-the-spam-assault-on-your-inbox/Can-digital-identity-curb-the-spam-assault-on-your-inbox.html Whether you like it or not, spam may be here for good. The world is at war with it, and spam may be winning. You may recognize some of the terms of warfare: spam, ham, junk, not junk, UCE, UBE, Make Money Fast, Viagra, Cialis, stock scams, viruses, trojans, worms, exploits, phishing, malware, 419 fraud, mail headers, Bayesian filters, filter poisoning, spam scores, white lists, black lists, block lists, port 25 blocking, list washing, spam houses, bounce counts, address harvesting, dictionary attacks, CAN-SPAM, honeypots, botnets, zombies, opt-in, opt-out, false negatives and false positives. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 05 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/4307/1/LetsHost-Announces-the-Launch-of-its-Anti-Spam-Solution-That-Picks-Up-From-Where-the-Standard-Score-Based-Anti-Spam-Solutions-Stop/LetsHost-Announces-the-Launch-of-its-Anti-Spam-Solution-That-Picks-Up-From-Where-the-Standard-Score.html LetsHost announces the launch of its Anti Spam solution that picks up from where the standard score based anti-spam solutions.IntroductionThe explosive growth of the use of E-Mail both in business and home has provided the benefits of cheap and instantaneous global messaging. This is readily available with a low cost of entry.  bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 05 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/4305/1/LetsHost-Unveils-Anti-Spam-Solution/LetsHost-Unveils-Anti-Spam-Solution.html New anti-spam solution provides protection against all known viruses and stops 99.9 percent of spam messages.    LetsHost, a Dublin, Ireland-based Web host, has unveiled its new Anti Spam solution. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 05 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/4194/1/NOV-11-2002-Spam-king-lives-large-off-others-e-mail-troubles/NOV-11-2002-Spam-king-lives-large-off-others-e-mail-troubles.html You might call it the house that spam built.Alan Ralsky's brand new 8,000-square-foot luxury home near Halsted and Maple in West Bloomfield has been a busy place this month. Outside, landscapers worked against the November cold to get a sprinkler system installed before the ground freezes. Inside, painters prepared to hang wallpaper. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 04 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/4193/1/Planned-Anti-spam-Platform-Maintenance/Planned-Anti-spam-Platform-Maintenance.html Duration of expected customer impact:-This will be performed in stages during the week.Detailed description of work to be performed:-Following positive feedback from customers on the Postini anti-spam platform and with few issues encountered during past migrations, we are now in a position to move all Force9 email addresses across to the new service. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 04 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/4191/1/Gotroot-Modsecurity-Rules-for-Apache---Anti-spam-and-Security/Gotroot-Modsecurity-Rules-for-Apache---Anti-spam-and-Security.html ModSecurity is an open source intrusion detection and prevention engine for web applications (or a web application firewall).  bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 04 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/4189/1/Spam-king-Ralsky-10-others-face-federal-charges/Spam-king-Ralsky-10-others-face-federal-charges.html A man known as Michigan's "spam king, " Alan M. Ralsky of West Bloomfield, has been indicted along with 10 other defendants in what U.S. Attorney Stephen Murphy described Thursday as the largest criminal spam and Internet fraud case in American history. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 04 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/4188/1/Iteamic-deploys-an-anti-spam-solution/Iteamic-deploys-an-anti-spam-solution.html The company has found the ideal solution tailored for its e-mail and Web requirements in IronPort’s Mail Gateway Appliance and Web Security Appliance, writes Nivedan PrakashBangalore-based Iteamic is a software services company servicing start-ups, small and mid-sized companies. Its primary service lines are product development and application management services for the Banking, Finance, Security and Insurance (BFSI) sector. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 04 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/4121/1/The-DOC-is-IN-Again-in-Spam/The-DOC-is-IN-Again-in-Spam.html It’s the new year yet spammers are out with old tricks as TrendLabs Content Security (CS) researchers report that last year’s DOC spam is back. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 03 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/4120/1/FTC-Issues-Staff-Report-on-Malicious-Spam-and-Phishing/FTC-Issues-Staff-Report-on-Malicious-Spam-and-Phishing.html In a new report, the Federal Trade Commission staff describes findings from its July 2007 workshop, “Spam Summit: The Next Generation of Threats and Solutions” and proposes follow-up action steps that stakeholders can adopt to mitigate the harmful effects of malicious spam and phishing. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 03 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/4118/1/Upgrade-to-SELCO-Anti-Spam-Solution/Upgrade-to-SELCO-Anti-Spam-Solution.html One of the first tasks I undertook when I started as Systems Manager was to improve the anti-spam software used to filter email coming into SELCO. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 03 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/4116/1/-Anti-botnet-vendors-plug-in/-Anti-botnet-vendors-plug-in.html A small group of IT security startups are hoping to cash in on the rise of the botnet scourge as businesses -- telecommunications carriers and Internet service providers, in particular -- seek new methods for stopping the attacks. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 03 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/4114/1/SMB-Anti-botnet-vendors-plug-in/SMB-Anti-botnet-vendors-plug-in.html A small group of IT security startups are hoping to cash in on the rise of the botnet scourge as businesses -- telecommunications carriers and Internet service providers, in particular -- seek new methods for stopping the attacks. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 03 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/4005/1/High-praise-for-internet-anti-spam-crackdown/High-praise-for-internet-anti-spam-crackdown.html The internet Society of New Zealand has applauded an anti-spam crackdown by the Department of Internal Affairs yesterday.The department carried out anti-spam raids in Christchurch in an effort to stem the tide of illegal electronic mail flooding in-boxes. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 02 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/4003/1/Anti-spam-raid-in-Christchurch/Anti-spam-raid-in-Christchurch.html Press Release: Department Of Internal AffairsAnti-spam raid in ChristchurchThe Department of Internal Affairs has seized 22 computers and boxes of documents from four Christchurch addresses as it investigates an international spamming operation. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 02 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/4001/1/Engate-Enhances-Anti-Spam-Global-Partner-Program-to-Deliver-Incremental-Value-to-Hardware-and-Software-OEMs/Engate-Enhances-Anti-Spam-Global-Partner-Program-to-Deliver-Incremental-Value-to-Hardware-and-Softwa.html Engate Technology Corporation has announced an enhancement to its Anti-Spam Global Partner Program with a specialized OEM program designed for software and hardware vendors ranging anywhere from anti-spam software, gateways and security appliances to firewalls, routers and unified threat management systems. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 02 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/3982/1/Save-on-GFIs-Email-Security-Anti-Spam-and-Faxing-Solutions-in-Q4-2007/Save-on-GFIs-Email-Security-Anti-Spam-and-Faxing-Solutions-in-Q4-2007.html Software developer GFI Software has announced a promotion during Q4 with up to 50% off the list price of GFI MailEssentials, GFI MailSecurity, the GFI MailEssentials & GFI MailSecurity Suite and fax server solution GFI FAXmaker. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/3980/1/Fire-Proofing-Your-Network-With-UTM/Fire-Proofing-Your-Network-With-UTM.html We continue our Unified Threat Management series with a guided tour of network-based virus, spyware, spam, and web defenses, demonstrating how they responded to threats during our tests.In this series, we examined the drivers behind Unified Threat Management and illustrated a small office UTM deployment using the IBM ISS Proventia MX1004, a multi-function network security appliance. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/3902/1/Another-Antispam-Tool---Comment-Spam-Trap-Plugin/Another-Antispam-Tool---Comment-Spam-Trap-Plugin.html I recently blogged about my anti-spam experiment (which has been going great!). The one problem with the method I explained in that post is that it requires the user to modify WordPress core files. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 31 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/3900/1/Pump-and-dump-scam-spam-switches-on-video/Pump-and-dump-scam-spam-switches-on-video.html Pump-and-dump stock scammers have begun spiking their spam with high-quality video clips -- the latest move in a long-running scheme that in the past has relied on image files, PDF documents and even robotic audio to dupe consumers, a security company said today. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 31 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/3899/1/SPAMfighter-Warns-Holiday-Spam-Scams-Keep-Pace-With-More-Online-Shopping/SPAMfighter-Warns-Holiday-Spam-Scams-Keep-Pace-With-More-Online-Shopping.html With online holiday shopping already breaking records and predicted to increase an overall 20 percent through December*, cyber-crooks have been hard at work spreading their own brand of holiday cheer—holiday spam.  bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 31 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/3897/1/Web-Hosting-Allowing-Spam-Blogs/Web-Hosting-Allowing-Spam-Blogs.html This post is going to be stolen.  A while back I noticed an upsurge in splogs taking content off this site (thanks to Technorati, which doesn’t really filter them out of its stats). bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 31 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/3895/1/Example-of-double-spam-sent-to-mailboxes-and-mailing-lists/Example-of-double-spam-sent-to-mailboxes-and-mailing-lists.html A way of double spamming - combo of spamming email users and mailing lists to get a profit:#1 Spammer sends a spam e-mail to a mailing list that doesn't have rigorous moderating - in this case netbsd-docs. The post is mirrored  bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 31 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/3777/1/-Features-And-Benefits-Of-Anti-Spam-Software/-Features-And-Benefits-Of-Anti-Spam-Software.html The best anti-spam software is the one that gives you your privacy. Ideally, an anti-spam device should be the one that delivers only the emails you want, and blocks 100 percent of the emails you do not want. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 29 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/3776/1/A-Document-Format-for-Expressing-Authorization-Policies-to-Tackle-Spam/A-Document-Format-for-Expressing-Authorization-Policies-to-Tackle-Spam.html Members of the IETF SIPPING Working Group have published an updated draftdefining SPIT authorization documents that use SAML. The problem of SPAMfor Internet Telephony (SPIT) is an imminent challenge and only thecombination of several techniques can provide a framework for dealingwith unwanted communication. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 29 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/3774/1/Christmas-Day-Spam/Christmas-Day-Spam.html It seems that Spam bots don’t take time off for Christmas.  Come the Robot Uprising we won’t get time off either. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 29 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/3772/1/Version-026-of-Peters-Random-Anti-Spam-Image-for-WordPress/Version-026-of-Peters-Random-Anti-Spam-Image-for-WordPress.html Here’s a spin-off of Peter’s Custom Anti-Spam Image for WordPress that will generate random anti-spam images instead of custom anti-spam images. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 29 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/3770/1/Malicious-Spam-and-Phishing-Report/Malicious-Spam-and-Phishing-Report.html In a new report, the Federal Trade Commission staff describes findings from its July 2007 workshop, “Spam Summit: The Next Generation of Threats and Solutions” and proposes follow-up action steps that stakeholders can adopt to mitigate the harmful effects of malicious spam and phishing. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 29 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/3648/1/Engate-Enhances-Anti-Spam-Partner-Program-to-Deliver-Incremental-Value-to-Hardware--Software-OEMs/Engate-Enhances-Anti-Spam-Partner-Program-to-Deliver-Incremental-Value-to-Hardware--Software-OEMs.html Engate Technology Corporation, a leading anti-spam supplier and pioneer of next generation network profiling and connection management security solutions, today announced an enhancement to its Anti-Spam Global Partner Program with a specialized OEM program designed for software and hardware vendors ranging anywhere from anti-spam software, gateways and security appliances to firewalls, routers and unified threat management systems. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 28 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/3647/1/Viagra-and-Search-Engine-Spam/Viagra-and-Search-Engine-Spam.html 1. Anti Spam Software & Internet Filters Blog - Securence: AdWare …Once the adware is installed, users visiting those search engines are actually … Just by browsing http://www.4viagraonline.com , you can buy viagra to …securence.blogs.com/1/2005/10/adware_targets_.html - 19k - Cached - Similar pages bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 28 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/3646/1/Anti-appliance-spam-installations-are-effective-for-spam-protection/Anti-appliance-spam-installations-are-effective-for-spam-protection.html Spams or unsolicited emails are matter of concerns for all those who use email. Spamming that is essentially a way of online marketing is carried out by professional email marketing agencies. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 28 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/3644/1/Anti-Spam-Initiative-SEC/Anti-Spam-Initiative-SEC.html The Securities and Exchange Commission continued its assault on stock market e-mail spam by suspending trading in the securities of three companies that haven't provided adequate and accurate information about themselves to the investing public. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 28 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/3640/1/Storm-Worm-Entices-With-New-Years-Spam/Storm-Worm-Entices-With-New-Years-Spam.html The Storm Worm loves the holidays. Security researchers have found that the Storm virus is ringing in the New Year with a fresh wave of attacks. This time, the notorious botnet is recruiting new members with a greeting spam. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 28 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/3505/1/19-12-2007-Celcom-launches-anti-spam-solution/19-12-2007-Celcom-launches-anti-spam-solution.html Celcom (M) Bhd has unveiled its own solution to safeguard the mobile communication of its prepaid and postpaid customers, barely four months after the launch of rival telco Maxis Communications Bhd’s anti-spam solution. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 27 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/3504/1/Spam-aint-spam-anymore/Spam-aint-spam-anymore.html In the Internet's age of innocence, just a few short years ago, Spam was just a nuisance: mostly it was trying to sell something and most of it came from people simply exploiting the ability of the Internet to deliver millions of messages from their computer at minimal cost. Spam today is a much more sinister and dangerous beast and something has to be done to contain it.Internet security specialist IronPort Systems, now a Cisco business unit, earlier this month issued a report on spam, viruses and malware, highlighting trends for 2007 and predictions for 2008 .  It makes disturbing reading. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 27 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/3502/1/Majority-Of-Email-Sent-To-Companies-Is-Spam/Majority-Of-Email-Sent-To-Companies-Is-Spam.html During the month of November 2007, close to 90 percent of the email volume received by large companies was spam according to a report from Proofpoint. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 27 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/3501/1/Spam-Spikes-A-Real-Risk-to-Your-Business/Spam-Spikes-A-Real-Risk-to-Your-Business.html Overview: Spam currently accounts for around 70% of emails heading to corporate gateways. Whenever your organization receives an unsolicited email, your efficiency, productivity and profitability take a hit. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 27 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/3499/1/ANTI-SPAM-COMPANY-SPOTS-SEASONAL-SPAMMERS-GOING-FOR-Wii/ANTI-SPAM-COMPANY-SPOTS-SEASONAL-SPAMMERS-GOING-FOR-Wii.html Unscrupulous spammers from around the globe are targeting those parents who are frantically trying to get their hands on this years must have Christmas present, the Nintendo Wii bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 27 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/3371/1/HK-to-fully-launch-anti-spam-laws/HK-to-fully-launch-anti-spam-laws.html The Unsolicited Electronic Messages Ordinance will be fully implemented on Dec. 22, Director-General of Telecommunications of the Hong Kong government Marion Lai announced here Thursday. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 26 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/3369/1/Akismet-Anti-Spam-v04/Akismet-Anti-Spam-v04.html   1. You'll need a WordPress API key if you don't already have one. You can get one here... Where is my WordPress.com API key? « WordPress.com bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 26 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/3368/1/Planned-Anti-spam-Platform-Maintenance/Planned-Anti-spam-Platform-Maintenance.html Detailed description of work to be performed:-We will be migrating another batch of customers' domains onto the new Postini anti-spam platform. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 26 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/3367/1/Engate-MailSentinel-Anti-Spam-Receives-Product-of-the-Year-Award/Engate-MailSentinel-Anti-Spam-Receives-Product-of-the-Year-Award.html Engate Technology Corporation has announced that Engate MailSentinel™ Anti-Spam has received a 2007 Product of the Year Award from Customer Interaction Solutions magazine for outstanding anti-spam innovation and commitment to customer service excellence. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 26 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/3365/1/Engate-MailSentinel-Anti-Spam-Receives-Product-of-the-Year-Award-free-RSS-feed-from-Security-Park/Engate-MailSentinel-Anti-Spam-Receives-Product-of-the-Year-Award-free-RSS-feed-from-Security-Park.html Engate Technology Corporation has announced that Engate MailSentinel™ Anti-Spam has received a 2007 Product of the Year Award from Customer Interaction Solutions magazine for outstanding anti-spam innovation and commitment to customer service excellence. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 26 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/3238/1/NCC-fast-tracks-legislation-in-war-against-spam/NCC-fast-tracks-legislation-in-war-against-spam.html The National Communications Commission announced an acceleration of the law-making process for the Governing Commercial Electronic Mail Abuse Act draft, which was sent to the Legislative Yuan in 2005 by the Directorate General of Telecommunications under the Ministry of Transportation and Communications. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 24 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/3236/1/My-Spam-Solution/My-Spam-Solution.html My earlier post on reaching 5000 spam comments captured by Akismet raised some interest, as several commenters with blogs of similar ages have suffered more like 30,000 spams and asked what my plugins were. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 24 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/3235/1/Symantec-highlights-threat-of-quiet-spam-attacks/Symantec-highlights-threat-of-quiet-spam-attacks.html INTERNET threats have advanced over the past four years hitting hard on sectors such as governments and financial services. Symantec Corp (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd technical consultant manager Ong Kah Wooi attributes monetary gains as the driving factor that has lead to the expansion of Internet threats worldwide. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 24 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/3233/1/Free-anti-virus-program-AVG-works/Free-anti-virus-program-AVG-works.html Part 2 of my contribution to making the holiday season a merry one for frugal Good Booters. Free software I've found to be both useful and productive.If you're becoming as disenchanted with those expensive, system resource hogging anti-virus programs, why not free yourself from bondage. I did and I've no regrets. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 24 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/3231/1/Data-Doctor-Anti-spam-devices-block-some-legitimate-e-mail/Data-Doctor-Anti-spam-devices-block-some-legitimate-e-mail.html Q. I have not received (your) weekly newsletter since July 2007. I have checked online and (it says) I am a member, and it is checked that I should get your weekly letters. Why am I not getting them?— GlenaA. The sheer volume of junk e-mail messages that are in circulation has created a problem that is bigger than the nuisance of unwanted messages: the automated filtering of wanted messages. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 24 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/3197/1/Anti-Spam-the-best-way-to-fight-spam-bots/Anti-Spam-the-best-way-to-fight-spam-bots.html The purpose of this page is to make it so spammers who attempt to collect email addresses off the web, via programs, will not have real email addresses in their database. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 22 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/3087/1/First-raid-under-new-anti-spam-law/First-raid-under-new-anti-spam-law.html A Christchurch man has become the first person in New Zealand to be raided under the new anti-spam act, more formally known as the Unsolicited Electronic Messages Act, that came into force in September. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 22 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/3085/1/High-praise-for-internet-anti-spam-crackdown/High-praise-for-internet-anti-spam-crackdown.html The internet Society of New Zealand has applauded an anti-spam crackdown by the Department of Internal Affairs yesterday.The department carried out anti-spam raids in Christchurch in an effort to stem the tide of illegal electronic mail flooding in-boxes. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 22 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/3084/1/Getting-local-mail-to-go-through-hosted/Getting-local-mail-to-go-through-hosted.html Given the Example:Our Mail Server:  mail.ourserver.comOur Anti-Spam Hosted Solution:  mail.AntiSpam.comWe change the MX record for customer1.com to use Mail.AntiSpam.com, which greatly reduces spam, but some spammers are bright enough to use our CACHED MX record and they route to mail.ourserver.com (bypassing the hosted anti-spam solution). bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 22 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/3082/1/Engate-and-Net-Integration-Partner-for-Anti-Spam/Engate-and-Net-Integration-Partner-for-Anti-Spam.html Engate Technology Corporation, a leading anti-spam supplier and pioneer of next generation network profiling and connection management security solutions, today announced the signing of an Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) Agreement with Net Integration Technologies Inc. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 22 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/2954/1/Anti-spam-raid-in-Christchurch/Anti-spam-raid-in-Christchurch.html Press Release: Department Of Internal AffairsAnti-spam raid in ChristchurchThe Department of Internal Affairs has seized 22 computers and boxes of documents from four Christchurch addresses as it investigates an international spamming operation. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 21 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/2953/1/Anti-Spam/Anti-Spam.html I must acknowledge that the best anti-spam tool is Spamhaus (not SpamAssassin). They maintain a blacklist of spamming and rogue IP addresses. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 21 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/2952/1/Spam-update-We-messed-up-but-were-back-on-track/Spam-update-We-messed-up-but-were-back-on-track.html We’re sorry. We messed up, the anti spam system got way too aggressive, and we were trying to dial it back in small increments instead of what we eventually did, which was flipping all the way back to a setting that we know works for most people. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 21 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/2951/1/Web-Form-Anti-Spam-100032/Web-Form-Anti-Spam-100032.html This flexible and easy to use web-master tool is designated for converting arbitrary HTML code into encoded form, unreadable by many kinds of spam bots. Web form spam bots, e-mail harvesting bots are the programs, surfing the web, loading web-pages for parsing and analyzis. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 21 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/2949/1/Full-anti-spam-laws-to-launch/Full-anti-spam-laws-to-launch.html The Unsolicited Electronic Messages Ordinance will be fully implemented December 22, Director-General of Telecommunications Marion Lai says. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 21 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/2810/1/19-12-2007-Celcom-launches-anti-spam-solution/19-12-2007-Celcom-launches-anti-spam-solution.html KUALA LUMPUR: Celcom (M) Bhd has unveiled its own solution to safeguard the mobile communication of its prepaid and postpaid customers, barely four months after the launch of rival telco Maxis Communications Bhd’s anti-spam solution. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 20 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/2809/1/Comment-Problems-Typepad-Goes-Anti-Spam-Crazy/Comment-Problems-Typepad-Goes-Anti-Spam-Crazy.html I suspected something was awry when I could not post a comment to my own blog -- I was blocked as a spammer.To those of you who have been unable to post comments, its most likely not you, but the newly aggressive anti-spam filters. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 20 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/2807/1/Alleged-spam-man-exposed/Alleged-spam-man-exposed.html A Christchurch businessman alleged to be the source of millions of emails offering sexual enhancement pills has become the first person in New Zealand to be raided under tough new anti-spam laws. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 20 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/2806/1/First-raid-under-new-anti-spam-law/First-raid-under-new-anti-spam-law.html A Christchurch man has become the first person in New Zealand to be raided under the new anti-spam act, more formally known as the Unsolicited Electronic Messages Act, that came into force in September. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 20 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/2804/1/High-praise-for-internet-anti-spam-crackdown/High-praise-for-internet-anti-spam-crackdown.html The internet Society of New Zealand has applauded an anti-spam crackdown by the Department of Internal Affairs yesterday. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 20 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/2627/1/Symantec-Concludes-That-72-of-All-E-Mail-Sent-in-November-Was-Spam/Symantec-Concludes-That-72-of-All-E-Mail-Sent-in-November-Was-Spam.html In the continuing war against spam, Symantec files reports on how the anti-spam industry is doing every month. Symantec concluded that, in November, 72% of all messages sent to people was spam. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 18 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/2625/1/Fifth-Annual-Conference-on-Email-and-Anti-Spam-Call-for-Papers/Fifth-Annual-Conference-on-Email-and-Anti-Spam-Call-for-Papers.html The fifth annual Conference on Email and Anti-Spam (CEAS 2008) will be held Thursday, August 21 to Friday August 22, 2008, at the Mountain View, Calif. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 18 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/2624/1/Planned-Anti-spam-Platform-Maintenance/Planned-Anti-spam-Platform-Maintenance.html Detailed description of work to be performed:-Following positive feedback from customers on the Postini anti-spam platform and with few issues encountered during migration, we are now in a position to move all Free-Online email addresses across to the new service. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 18 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/2623/1/-Symantec-Releases-the-State-of-Spam-for-December-2007/-Symantec-Releases-the-State-of-Spam-for-December-2007.html Symantec has released December's “The State of Spam,” a monthly report which discusses November's key trends. The report also looks at some of the year’s most notable spam events and trends. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 18 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/2621/1/Spam-Spikes-A-Real-Risk-to-Your-Business/Spam-Spikes-A-Real-Risk-to-Your-Business.html Overview: Spam currently accounts for around 70% of emails heading to corporate gateways. Whenever your organization receives an unsolicited email, your efficiency, productivity and profitability take a hit. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 18 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/2495/1/Ethics--Work-Once-and-future-spam/Ethics--Work-Once-and-future-spam.html Spam law is constantly evolving, but recently there have been an unusual number of developments: two important courtroom precedents and a new Knesset bill. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 17 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/2494/1/Holiday-Spam-Is-on-the-Rise/Holiday-Spam-Is-on-the-Rise.html Spammers Use Creative Techniques to Circumvent FiltersDecember 12, 2007) - Process Software, a premier supplier of communications software solutions to mission-critical environments, announced today the 2007 holiday spam trends that are currently underway. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 17 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/2492/1/Engate-Enhances-Anti-Spam-Global-Partner-Program-to-Deliver-Incremental-Value-to-Hardware-and-Software/Engate-Enhances-Anti-Spam-Global-Partner-Program-to-Deliver-Incremental-Value-to-Hardware-and-Softwa.html Engate Technology Corporation today announced an enhancement to its Anti-Spam Global Partner Program with a specialized OEM program designed for software and hardware vendors ranging from anti-spam software. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 17 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/2490/1/MailWasher-Pro-6-Released-with-Improved-Spam-Blocking-and-New-Look-Now-with-over-8-Million-Users-Worldwide/MailWasher-Pro-6-Released-with-Improved-Spam-Blocking-and-New-Look-Now-with-over-8-Million-Users-Wo.html Firetrust Limited, provider of award-winning anti-spam and email security solutions, today announced their users number over 8 million and the latest release of MailWasher Pro 6, a uniquely designed spam filter tool that provides additional protection for businesses and home users from unsolicited and unwanted emails. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 17 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/2488/1/Sophos-debuts-a-powerful-new-weapon-in-the-fight-against-spam/Sophos-debuts-a-powerful-new-weapon-in-the-fight-against-spam.html IT security and control firm Sophos announced the addition of Sophos eXtensible Lists (SXL) to its Email Security and Control solutions portfolio. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 17 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/2394/1/Powerful-New-Weapon-In-The-Fight-Against-Spam/Powerful-New-Weapon-In-The-Fight-Against-Spam.html IT security and control firm Sophos today announced the addition of Sophos eXtensible Lists (SXL) to its Email Security and Control solutions portfolio. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 15 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/2392/1/Despite-filters-tidal-wave-of-spam-bears-down-on-e-mailers/Despite-filters-tidal-wave-of-spam-bears-down-on-e-mailers.html Why, in 2007, is spam worse than ever? Let exasperated consumers count the ways: PDF spam. MP3 spam. Pump-and-dump spam. E-card spam. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 15 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/2390/1/Holiday-Spam-Is-on-the-Rise/Holiday-Spam-Is-on-the-Rise.html Process Software, a premier supplier of communications software solutions to mission-critical environments, announced today the 2007 holiday spam trends that are currently underway. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 15 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/2255/1/Almost-all-email-now-spam/Almost-all-email-now-spam.html It may come as no surprise, but almost every email sent in 2007 was spam. [via stuff]About 95 per cent of emails this year - up from 70 per cent in 2006 - were classified as junk messages, according to a report from US security firm Barracuda, Agence France Presse reported. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 14 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/2254/1/How-To-Get-More-Comments-Less-Spam/How-To-Get-More-Comments-Less-Spam.html I’ve done a couple of things to my blog, mostly “behind the scenes,” that I want to share with you.My friend James Brausch has recently closed his comments on his blog. Theprimary and most important reason is to deal with the plethora of commentspam. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 14 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/2252/1/Spam-Reaching-Record-Volumes-Researchers-Say/Spam-Reaching-Record-Volumes-Researchers-Say.html Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse, spam is growing again.According to two separate reports issued this week, that hateful, useless email is increasing again, both in volume and as a percentage of the messaging payload, researchers say. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 14 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/2250/1/-Holiday-Spam-Is-on-the-Rise/-Holiday-Spam-Is-on-the-Rise.html Process Software, a premier supplier of communications software solutions to mission-critical environments, announced today the 2007 holiday spam trends that are currently underway. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 14 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/2248/1/MailWasher-Pro-6-Released-with-Improved-Spam-Blocking-and-New-Look-Now-with-over-8-Million-Users-Worldwide/MailWasher-Pro-6-Released-with-Improved-Spam-Blocking-and-New-Look-Now-with-over-8-Million-Users-Wo.html Firetrust Limited, provider of award-winning anti-spam and email security solutions, today announced their users number over 8 million and the latest release of MailWasher Pro 6, a uniquely designed spam filter tool that provides additional protection for businesses and home users from unsolicited and unwanted emails. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 14 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/2123/1/Is-Spam-Coming-to-an-End/Is-Spam-Coming-to-an-End.html Perhaps it is deja vu, or perhaps it is actually true, but it seems like every few days a story pops up telling us exactly what percentage of our email traffic is spam. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 13 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/2122/1/Lincoln-County-Medical-Center-Secures-Patient-Data-and-Stops-Spam-and-Viruses-With-the-Proofpoint-Messaging-Security-Gateway-Appliance/Lincoln-County-Medical-Center-Secures-Patient-Data-and-Stops-Spam-and-Viruses-With-the-Proofpoint-Me.html Proofpoint, Inc., theleading provider of unified email security and data loss preventionsolutions, today announced that Lincoln County Medical Center has deployedthe Proofpoint Messaging Security Gateway(TM) appliance to ensure thatsensitive and confidential information is not shared via email and that theorganization is compliant with HIPAA and other data security regulations. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 13 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/2121/1/Sophos-claims-spam-protection-breakthrough/Sophos-claims-spam-protection-breakthrough.html Sophos is expanding its email security and control solutions with the addition of real-time spam look-up system, claims to beat rival scheduled update models.Sophos eXtensible Lists (SXL) aims to accelerate the distribution of anti-spam intelligence by providing real-time access to a wide range of information, including current and old anti-spam intelligence, in order to respond to spam attacks. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 13 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/2120/1/Almost-all-email-now-spam/Almost-all-email-now-spam.html It may come as no surprise, but almost every email sent in 2007 was spam.About 95 per cent of emails this year - up from 70 per cent in 2006 - were classified as junk messages, according to a report from US security firm Barracuda, Agence France Presse reported. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 13 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/1994/1/Anti-Spam-Initiative-SEC/Anti-Spam-Initiative-SEC.html The Securities and Exchange Commission continued its assault on stock market e-mail spam by suspending trading in the securities of three companies that haven't provided adequate and accurate information about themselves to the investing public. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 12 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/1993/1/Anti-Spam-Wrap-up/Anti-Spam-Wrap-up.html To summarize where I am with protecting my own domain's email, SpamJadoo is now filtering out about 3,000 spam attempts a day, and passing less than a hundred emails a day to my server. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 12 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/1991/1/Sophos-debuts-a-powerful-new-weapon-in-the-fight-against-spam/Sophos-debuts-a-powerful-new-weapon-in-the-fight-against-spam.html IT security and control firm Sophos today announced the addition of Sophos eXtensible Lists (SXL) to its Email Security and Control solutions portfolio. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 12 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/1990/1/LeTourneau-Universitys-Texas-sized-Spam-Problems-Lassoed-by-Roaring-Penguin-Software/LeTourneau-Universitys-Texas-sized-Spam-Problems-Lassoed-by-Roaring-Penguin-Software.html Roaring Penguin Software rises to thechallenge of fighting Spam at LeTourneau University in Texas. LetourneauUniversity, is a private, non-denominational Christian university, based in Longview, providing undergraduate, graduate, and continuing education. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 12 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/1830/1/Wordpress-Anti-SPAM-Plugin---Math-Comments-Plugin/Wordpress-Anti-SPAM-Plugin---Math-Comments-Plugin.html After receiving DoS (Denial of Service) attacks from hackers and whatnot, we’ve decided to permanently place the Math Comments Plugin. Basically, robots won’t be able to waste any of our server’s precious time and bandwidth. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 11 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/1829/1/Engate-Enhances-Anti-Spam-Partner-Program-to-Deliver-Incremental-Value-to-Hardware--Software-OEMs/Engate-Enhances-Anti-Spam-Partner-Program-to-Deliver-Incremental-Value-to-Hardware--Software-OEMs.html Engate Technology Corporation, a leading anti-spam supplier and pioneer of next generation network profiling and connection management security solutions, today announced an enhancement to its Anti-Spam Global Partner Program with a specialized OEM program designed for software and hardware vendors ranging anywhere from anti-spam software, gateways and security appliances to firewalls, routers and unified threat management systems. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 11 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/1828/1/Engate-and-Net-Integration-Partner-for-Anti-Spam/Engate-and-Net-Integration-Partner-for-Anti-Spam.html Engate Technology Corporation, a leading anti-spam supplier and pioneer of next generation network profiling and connection management security solutions, today announced the signing of an Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) Agreement with Net Integration Technologies Inc., a provider of all-in-one small business servers. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 11 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/1826/1/Americans-Ingested-Too-Much-Holiday-E-Mail-Spam-Survey-Finds/Americans-Ingested-Too-Much-Holiday-E-Mail-Spam-Survey-Finds.html Symantec also sees spammers trying new techniques, such as spamming via bot-net, audio and video spam, and spamming using protocols for IM, SMS, and online games.While Americans celebrated the harvest last month over the Thanksgiving holiday, spammers were busy with a harvest festival of their own: trying to gather new e-mail addresses. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 11 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/1824/1/Engate-Enhances-Anti-Spam-Global-Partner-Program-to-Deliver-Incremental-Value-to-Hardware-and-Software/Engate-Enhances-Anti-Spam-Global-Partner-Program-to-Deliver-Incremental-Value-to-Hardware-and-Softwa.html Engate Technology Corporation today announced an enhancement to its Anti-Spam Global Partner Program with a specialized OEM program designed for software and hardware vendors ranging from anti-spam software.Engate Technology Corporation, a leading anti-spam supplier and pioneer of next generation network profiling and connection management security solutions, today announced an enhancement to its Anti-Spam Global Partner Program with a specialized OEM program designed for software and hardware vendors ranging anywhere from anti-spam software, gateways and security appliances to firewalls, routers and unified threat management systems. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 11 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/1722/1/Planned-Anti-spam-Platform-Maintenance/Planned-Anti-spam-Platform-Maintenance.html Duration of expected customer impact:-No customer impact is expected.Detailed description of work to be performed:-We will be migrating a number of dormant mailboxes onto our Postini anti-spam platform. This work allows us to test the mass migration capability of the scripts we have in place to move customers to the new anti-spam solution. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 10 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/1721/1/Planned-Anti-spam-Platform-Maintenance.html Detailed description of work to be performed:-We will be migrating a number of dormant mailboxes onto our Postini anti-spam platform. This work allows us to test the mass migration capability of the scripts we have in place to move customers to the new anti-spam solution. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 10 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/1719/1/War-on-spam-the-sequel/War-on-spam-the-sequel.html Give the state Democratic lawmakers who will introduce legislation next year to "reduce" junk e-mail credit for not promising more than they can deliver. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 10 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/1718/1/Anti-malware-software-suites/Anti-malware-software-suites.html When it comes to anti-malware software, the first decision any Windows user needs to make is whether to go with an integrated suite of software or pick and chose specific products, such as a firewall, anti-virus and anti-spyware software. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 10 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/1716/1/Dont-give-spam-a-chance-Avoiding-quote-trashquot/Dont-give-spam-a-chance-Avoiding-quote-trashquot.html For many computer users, it's part of the daily grind - the deletion of digital trash from the e-mail box. Unwanted advertising e-mail messages known as spam, often make it more difficult to see those electronic letters that are worthy of attention. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 10 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/1573/1/Anti-spam-breaking-news/Anti-spam-breaking-news.html Thanks to a notice from Nate after he got blocked from commenting on Martha’s blog, I did a little digging and uncovered an update (just published today) to the WordPress Bad Behavior plugin that fixes an issue where it was blocking pretty much everyone from commenting. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 08 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/1572/1/Request-Free-Anti-Spam-Software-from-TechSoup-Stock--This-Wednesday-December/Request-Free-Anti-Spam-Software-from-TechSoup-Stock--This-Wednesday-December.html For 24 hours only this Wednesday, December 5, eligible nonprofits and public libraries in the U.S. and Canada can request free Mailshell anti-spam software at TechSoup Stock. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 08 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/1570/1/Defensio-Anti-Spam-12-released/Defensio-Anti-Spam-12-released.html The latest update for the Defensio Anti Spam WordPress was released today. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 08 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/1568/1/Planet-Antispam-update/Planet-Antispam-update.html A brief update on Planet Antispam…I’ve just added MailChannels’ Anti-Spam Blog. Now — in the interests of disclosure — I’m a member of MailChannels’ Technical Advisory Board. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 08 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/1566/1/The-Spam-Wars/The-Spam-Wars.html Junk e-mail is like seasickness: If you don't get it, you don't really understand how bad it is. In 1997, when I proposed my first article on spam, the English editor I approached insisted it was an "American problem." bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 08 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/1414/1/Online-security-So-many-passwords-so-many-risks/Online-security-So-many-passwords-so-many-risks.html Let's face it: The Internet is a great convenience, but all those user names and passwords can be a cumbersome pain in the caboose. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 07 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/1412/1/China-Internet-security-analysis-and-anti-spam-measures/China-Internet-security-analysis-and-anti-spam-measures.html China Internet security: analysis and suggestionsStatistics released by the China Internet Network Information Center show that, in June 2007, in China's mainland, there were 162 million Internet users, 1.31 million websites and 67 million online computers, and the total bandwidth at the international gate reaching 305Gbps, which represented an increase of 18 percent, 66 percent, 23 percent and 46 percent respectively over those in the same period of the previous year. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 07 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/1410/1/Study-Better-Spam-Control-Leads-To-Higher-Business-Results/Study-Better-Spam-Control-Leads-To-Higher-Business-Results.html Northborough MA – Brockmann and Company, the customer insight firm specializing on enterprise communications research and consulting released the business case for investing in anti-spam. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 07 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/1407/1/Engineer-battles-spam-first-then-rare-blood-cancer/Engineer-battles-spam-first-then-rare-blood-cancer.html Twenty-five years ago Steven Kirsch built a better mouse. Now he believes he has found a way to create a better trap -- for spam, not mice -- if he has enough time to finish his project. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 07 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/1406/1/Ethics--Work-Once-and-future-spam/Ethics--Work-Once-and-future-spam.html Spam law is constantly evolving, but recently there have been an unusual number of developments: two important courtroom precedents and a new Knesset bill. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 07 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/1244/1/Gateway-level-Antispam-Appliance/Gateway-level-Antispam-Appliance.html Gateway level spam filtering for threat management Threats over email like spam, phishing, viruses, worms, are released in the billions within a short span of time. Today’s attackers launch threats for financial gain rather than out of malicious intent. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 06 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/1242/1/MailWasher---The-Reliable-Free-Spam-Blocker/MailWasher---The-Reliable-Free-Spam-Blocker.html Join 7 million other people who use the award winning MailWasher to combat spam. For free!Introducing MailWasher, the leader in spam blocker software, and the easiest way to check and manage your e-mails before you download them. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 06 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/1240/1/Antispam-Provisions/Antispam-Provisions.html The following examples are tentative and unsupported. However, they may prove useful to people who are having problems with spammers. I don't guarantee that they are complete, extensively tested, or well documented at this time. Caveat Emptor. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 06 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/1239/1/The-Anti-Spam-Home-Page/The-Anti-Spam-Home-Page.html IntroductionAbout eight years ago I wrote an optimistic article on the topic of spam that has been widely linked and copied. During the intervening decade the original article's content grew increasingly dated and irrelevant, so I decided it's time for a new description of the spam problem. This page is the result. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 06 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/1237/1/Fight-Spam-on-the-Internet/Fight-Spam-on-the-Internet.html You have probably seen an increase in the amount of "junk mail" which shows up in your email box, or on your favorite newsgroup. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 06 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/1080/1/Despite-filters-tidal-wave-of-spam-bears-down-on-e-mailers/Despite-filters-tidal-wave-of-spam-bears-down-on-e-mailers.html Why, in 2007, is spam worse than ever? Let exasperated consumers count the ways: PDF spam. MP3 spam. Pump-and-dump spam. E-card spam.It may sound like a broken record, but spam continues to do just that — break records. This year marks the first time the total number of spam e-mail messages sent worldwide, 10.8 trillion, will surpass the number of person-to-person e-mails sent, 10.5 trillion, according to market researcher IDC. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 05 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/1079/1/Cloudmark-Desktop-53/Cloudmark-Desktop-53.html Without realising, many of us are connected to ISPs who have their own server-side anti-spam filters, then wonder why important emails never arrives in our mailbox. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 05 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/1078/1/Avis-Tries-Harder-to-Spam-You/Avis-Tries-Harder-to-Spam-You.html When you do business with a company, how long does it then get to use the information it learns about you? And if you ask them to please not send you e-mail, how often can they send you e-mail to see if you've changed your mind? Those are some of the questions one reader was asking recently after receiving some unwanted attention from Avis. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 05 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/1077/1/Alumnus-Kirsch-Develops-Advanced-Spam-Filtering/Alumnus-Kirsch-Develops-Advanced-Spam-Filtering.html Twenty-five years ago Steven T. Kirsch ’80, built a better mouse. Now he believes he has found a way to create a better trap — for spam, not mice — if he has enough time to finish his project. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 05 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/1075/1/Engate-MailSentinel-Anti-Spam-Receives-Product-of-the-Year-Award-by-Customer-Interaction-Solutions/Engate-MailSentinel-Anti-Spam-Receives-Product-of-the-Year-Award-by-Customer-Interaction-Solutions.html Engate Technology today announced that Engate MailSentinel™ Anti-Spam has received a 2007 Product of the Year Award from Customer Interaction Solutions magazine for outstanding anti-spam innovation and commitment to customer service excellence.Engate Technology Corporation, a leading anti-spam supplier and pioneer of next generation network profiling and connection management security solutions, today announced that Engate MailSentinel™ Anti-Spam has received a 2007 Product of the Year Award from Customer Interaction Solutions magazine for outstanding anti-spam innovation and commitment to customer service excellence. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 05 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/919/1/Beware-of-new-spam-tricks-over-festive-season--free-protection-offer/Beware-of-new-spam-tricks-over-festive-season--free-protection-offer.html New spam and virus techniques will be in full force with the holidays approaching, warns Camsoft, a local data security company and Commtouch (Nasdaq: CTCH) business partner. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 04 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/917/1/Anti-spam-practice-code-published/Anti-spam-practice-code-published.html A code of practice has been published to guide people on how sender information and unsubscribe-facility statements should be presented, and the type of unsubscribe facility that should be provided, in commercial electronic messages, the Office of the Telecommunications Authority says. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 04 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/915/1/INTERNET-LAW---What-are-the-Legal-Remedies-against-Spam/INTERNET-LAW---What-are-the-Legal-Remedies-against-Spam.html In July 2005 the Knesset confirmed Amendment 33 of the Communications Law (Telecommunications and Broadcasting (5765-2005) which was intended to deal with "the phenomenon of the mass distribution of unwanted advertisements through communications networks". bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 04 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/913/1/Spam-gets-dirty-in-2008/Spam-gets-dirty-in-2008.html UK PCs are now more likely to be deluged with spam than ever before and are likely to be increasingly targeted at individuals in the future, according to a new report from web and email security vendor IronPort released today. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 04 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/912/1/Anti-spam-bills-advance-in-Knesset/Anti-spam-bills-advance-in-Knesset.html The amendments aim to restrict advertising via SMS, e-mail, fax, and automated dialing.A joint Knesset Economics Committee and Science and Technology Committee have toughened anti-spam legislation aimed at restricting advertising via SMS, e-mail, fax, and automated dialing. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 04 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/775/1/IronPort-wins-the-fight-against-spam/IronPort-wins-the-fight-against-spam.html After the PDF and Excel based spam outbreaks at the beginning of this year, spammers now came up with a new spam outbreak based on the popular MP3 format. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 03 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/774/1/12-spam-research-projects-that-WONT-make-a-difference/12-spam-research-projects-that-WONT-make-a-difference.html Today, InfoWorld has a story headlined 12 research projects that might make a difference. For starters, it is pretty infuriating to me when I visit a site I like, like InfoWorld, and the minute I arrive on the page, the audio from an advertisement starts blaring through my computer’s speakers. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 03 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/773/1/Spam-Kings-Book-Review-Part-1/Spam-Kings-Book-Review-Part-1.html A few months ago, I purchased the book Spam Kings, but only recently managed to get around to reading and finishing it. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 03 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/772/1/Google-says-Spam-diet-on-the-fall/Google-says-Spam-diet-on-the-fall.html Are we eating better? Or is the number of annoying advertising messages to our Inboxes dropping? If it’s the head of Gmail’s anti-spam team speaking his mind, it’s probably safe to assume it’s the latter... bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 03 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/771/1/Anti-spam-bills-advance-in-Knesset/Anti-spam-bills-advance-in-Knesset.html The amendments aim to restrict advertising via SMS, e-mail, fax, and automated dialing.A joint Knesset Economics Committee and Science and Technology Committee have toughened anti-spam legislation aimed at restricting advertising via SMS, e-mail, fax, and automated dialing. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 03 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/657/1/Anti-virus-programs-dont-always-detect-spam-mail/Anti-virus-programs-dont-always-detect-spam-mail.html Q: I have a Dell Dimension 8400 computer running Microsoft XP. I seem to get a lot of returned mail that I have not sent out. I have all McAfee Virus programs but it doesn't help. I run every program to see if I have something wrong and it always comes back clear. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 01 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/655/1/Antispam-Technology-Impact-Assessment-Report-2007-Released/Antispam-Technology-Impact-Assessment-Report-2007-Released.html The battle between spammers and antispam companies has resulted in the development of different approaches to fighting spam. Researchers from COMDOM Software have released their 2007 assessment of the evolution of technologies for fighting spam.Specifically, the report compares the detection rates and the computing performance of the two primary classes of antispam systems used in enterprise and ISP applications. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 01 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/653/1/-netwars-Spam-today-and-spam-tomorrow/-netwars-Spam-today-and-spam-tomorrow.html Admittedly you have to be really not paying enough attention to do this... but in the last couple of weeks I've discovered torrent spam.Here's how it works: you download a file you think is something you want, and discovered it's been RAR-compressed. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 01 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/651/1/Is-Spam-on-the-Decline/Is-Spam-on-the-Decline.html That's what anti-spam gurus at Google are claiming, according to a recent report, although not all the experts agree. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 01 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/649/1/-Spam-Lawsuits-Last-Laugh-is-at-Hormels-Expense/-Spam-Lawsuits-Last-Laugh-is-at-Hormels-Expense.html "An article at the Minneapolis — StarTribune site covers a significant setback for the Hormel food company, in a case that's being closely watched by security companies across the country. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Sat, 01 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/503/1/Groupware-Solution-protects-against-viruses-and-spam/Groupware-Solution-protects-against-viruses-and-spam.html Software602, Inc. releases 602LAN SUITE 5 Groupware, integrated collaboration and messaging solution for Microsoft Windows. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 30 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/502/1/Proofpoint-MLX-Machine-Learning-to-Beat-Spam-Todayand-Tomorrow/Proofpoint-MLX-Machine-Learning-to-Beat-Spam-Todayand-Tomorrow.html Vendor Registration: requiredOverview: Mounting an effective defense against spam requires detection techniques that can evolve as quickly as the attacks themselves. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 30 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/501/1/Anti-spam-practice-code-published/Anti-spam-practice-code-published.html A code of practice has been published to guide people on how sender information and unsubscribe-facility statements should be presented, and the type of unsubscribe facility that should be provided, in commercial electronic messages, the Office of the Telecommunications Authority says. The code will be gazetted on November 30. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 30 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/499/1/Despite-filters-tidal-wave-of-spam-bears-down-on-e-mailers/Despite-filters-tidal-wave-of-spam-bears-down-on-e-mailers.html Why, in 2007, is spam worse than ever? Let exasperated consumers count the ways: PDF spam. MP3 spam. Pump-and-dump spam. E-card spam.It may sound like a broken record, but spam continues to do just that — break records. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 30 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/498/1/Spam-lawsuits-last-laugh-is-at-Hormels-expense/Spam-lawsuits-last-laugh-is-at-Hormels-expense.html McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- HRL | charts | news | PowerRating -- How much spam is too much?According to Monty Python, there's never too much (more on that in a moment). But according to Austin, Minn.-based meat processor Hormel Foods Corp., anybody else's product called Spam is too much. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Fri, 30 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/354/1/Spam-spitting-Storm-virus-a-year-old-tricky-as-ever/Spam-spitting-Storm-virus-a-year-old-tricky-as-ever.html One of the nastiest - and most persistent - sources of spam just turned a year old.Since it touched down in e-mail inboxes, the Storm virus has infected at least 1 million PCs worldwide and is responsible for billions of spam messages. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 29 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/353/1/Beware-of-new-spam-tricks-over-festive-season--free-protection-offer/Beware-of-new-spam-tricks-over-festive-season--free-protection-offer.html New spam and virus techniques will be in full force with the holidays approaching, warns Camsoft, a local data security company and Commtouch (Nasdaq: CTCH) business partner.Camsoft has warned of new techniques that spammers have recently been experimenting with to slip past anti-spam engines and into inboxes, presumably to take advantage of consumers over the festive season when many people will be making gift purchases. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 29 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/352/1/Spam-lawsuits-last-laugh-is-at-Hormels-expense/Spam-lawsuits-last-laugh-is-at-Hormels-expense.html How much spam is too much?According to Monty Python, there's never too much (more on that in a moment). But according to Austin, Minn.-based meat processor Hormel Foods Corp., anybody else's product called Spam is too much. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 29 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/351/1/quotVirtuallyquot-Eliminate-Spam-and-Viruses-Virtualization-Comes-to-Messaging-Security/quotVirtuallyquot-Eliminate-Spam-and-Viruses-Virtualization-Comes-to-Messaging-Security.html As more and more enterprises realize the benefits of server virtualization, they are looking to further leverage these savings by moving mission critical applications to virtual environments such as VMware. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 29 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/349/1/China-Internet-security-analysis-and-anti-spam-measures/China-Internet-security-analysis-and-anti-spam-measures.html I. China Internet security: analysis and suggestionsStatistics released by the China Internet Network Information Center show that, in June 2007, in China's mainland, there were 162 million Internet users, 1.31 million websites and 67 million online computers, and the total bandwidth at the international gate reaching 305Gbps, which represented an increase of 18 percent, 66 percent, 23 percent and 46 percent respectively over those in the same period of the previous year. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Thu, 29 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/238/1/12-spam-research-projects-that-might-make-a-difference/12-spam-research-projects-that-might-make-a-difference.html Those who commit cybercrime know they need to stay on the cutting edge of technology to come up with new and different ways to swindle people. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/237/1/-LECO-Corporation-Safeguards-against-Spam-and-Viruses-with-Proofpoint-Messaging-Security-Gateway-Appliance/-LECO-Corporation-Safeguards-against-Spam-and-Viruses-with-Proofpoint-Messaging-Security-Gateway-App.html LECO Corporation, a manufacturer of analytical instrumentation, has used the Proofpoint Messaging Security Gateway (News - Alert) appliance to eliminate incoming spam and viruses. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/236/1/Blog-Link-Spam-Claims-Another-Victim-Al-Gore/Blog-Link-Spam-Claims-Another-Victim-Al-Gore.html Spammers pushing Viagra, Cialis, codeine, and other popular drugs have planted dozens of invisible links on the website for An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore's anti-global warming movie, the IDG News Service reports. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/164/1/-Engate-Introduces-Hosted-Anti-Spam-Solution-for-Managed-Service-Providers-and-Resellers/-Engate-Introduces-Hosted-Anti-Spam-Solution-for-Managed-Service-Providers-and-Resellers.html Engate Technology Corporation, a leading anti-spam supplier and pioneer of next generation network profiling and connection management security solutions, today announced its managed email security solution as an enhancement to its Anti-Spam Channel Partner Program.  bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 27 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/163/1/Anti-virus-programs-dont-always-detect-spam-mail/Anti-virus-programs-dont-always-detect-spam-mail.html Q: I have a Dell Dimension 8400 computer running Microsoft XP. I seem to get a lot of returned mail that I have not sent out. I have all McAfee Virus programs but it doesn't help. I run every program to see if I have something wrong and it always comes back clear. Is there any way to stop this? Do you have any idea how it got started?A: Sounds like you're getting a lot of unwanted e-mail, which most of the world unaffectionately calls spam. Spam mail doesn't necessarily mean virus. So anti-virus software programs may not detect spam. Check the software maker's site. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 27 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/162/1/Antispam-Technology-Impact-Assessment-Report-2007-Released/Antispam-Technology-Impact-Assessment-Report-2007-Released.html The battle between spammers and antispam companies has resulted in the development of different approaches to fighting spam. Researchers from COMDOM Software have released their 2007 assessment of the evolution of technologies for fighting spam.Specifically, the report compares the detection rates and the computing performance of the two primary classes of antispam systems used in enterprise and ISP applications. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 27 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/161/1/Whats-worse-The-spam-itself-Or-how-anti-spam-solutions-block-legitimate-mail/Whats-worse-The-spam-itself-Or-how-anti-spam-solutions-block-legitimate-mail.html After being in New York City last week and being busy almost the entire time, I spent a good part of the weekend catching up on e-mail. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 27 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/160/1/Anti-spam-practice-code-published/Anti-spam-practice-code-published.html A code of practice has been published to guide people on how sender information and unsubscribe-facility statements should be presented, and the type of unsubscribe facility that should be provided, in commercial electronic messages, the Office of the Telecommunications Authority says. The code will be gazetted on November 30. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Tue, 27 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/67/1/Unsolicited-Commercial-Email-SPAM-and-the-FTC/Unsolicited-Commercial-Email-SPAM-and-the-FTC.html Most recently the Federal Trade Commission has put forth their requests for further budget funding for fiscal year 2007 and in this report to Congress for more taxpayer’s monies the FTC cited their efforts to curb SPAM. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 26 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/65/1/Protocol-Against-Spam/Protocol-Against-Spam.html I guess I have you a bit confused now. The e-mail protocol I’m referring to is not the technology protocol, no I’m speaking of a set of rules that has to be applied to make sure your e-mail reach its destination. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 26 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/62/1/Hackers-Exploitation-Of-A-CGI-Script-On-My-Site-To-Send-Massive-Spam-Emails/Hackers-Exploitation-Of-A-CGI-Script-On-My-Site-To-Send-Massive-Spam-Emails.html It was the evening of Friday 16th June 2006, and I was rounding up the updates on my websites, when I decided to search online for and install another site recommendation script on my website in place of the one that for some reason I could not fathom, continued to return a "500 - Internal Server Error" error. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 26 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sgdnetworks.com/web-articles/articles/60/1/How-to-beat-spam-in-5-steps/How-to-beat-spam-in-5-steps.html How prevalent is Spam? According to Scott McAdams, OMA Public Affairs and Communications Department (www.oma.org):“Studies show unsolicited or “junk” e-mail, known as spam, accounts for roughly half of all e-mail messages received. bharath@bharath2.com (bharath B) Mon, 26 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0500