Microsoft has stood behind their Hotmail product for years. During this time, they’ve tried to develop anti-spam filters to keep users’ inboxes from being flooded with useless email. Two of their anti-spam systems were designed to help ISPs find customers who were spamming inboxes. The two programs are Junk Mail Reporting Program and Smart Network [...]

Mobile computing is becoming popular enough, that perhaps we should start being aware of spam and malware popping up on these devices. At least that’s the feeling I received when reading about the anti-virus and anti-spam services from SmrtGuard for Blackberry Smartphones.

Apple’s next big release, the iPad, is scheduled to come out April 3rd. Already, the Better Business Bureau(BBB) has announced that scammers and spammers are using the release to take advantage of anxious fans. The BBB advises consumers to simply stay away from offers where anyone is offering a free iPad.

If you’re someone who relies greatly on award winners, then you should know about Sunbelt Software’s VIPRE Email Security. It was the latest recipient of the VBSpam Award, given out by Virus Bulletin. They’re an independent testing group which is involved in the betterment of email spam protection. They awarded Sunbelt Software in the January [...]

Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG) is an ISP group who’s goal is to help fight spam and malicious messaging practices, specifically email. The MAAWG conducts a study every quarter where they study the frequency of spam email. They draw their statistics from ISPs, who in turn gathers data from 500 million email boxes, and 200 [...]