A meeting reminder from the boss, a lascivious letter from a lover, or the daily tally from a fantasy football league: Which e-mail would you read first? Programmers at a small software company say ...

Mailshell, a San Francisco software company, is working with the nonprofit site TechSoup.org on a campaign to help charities fight unwanted e-mail messages. The effort will culminate in Mailshell’s ...

Founded in 1994, Nemx Software provides content security solutions for Microsoft Exchange servers. The small firm, consisting of only seven full-time staff members, provides anti-spam, anti-virus and ...

For those who have always wondered why some e-mails arrive in Gmail’s spam folder, Google has updated the service to explain to what determines that spam is spam. Ela Czajka, a software engineer with ...

While some would say there is no such thing as a free lunch, if by “lunch” they mean canned spam, they’re wrong. A free application called SpamPal will toss your junk mail in the can quietly, ...

AT&T WorldNet this week activated a risky spam-filtering technique that it shortly had to defuse after subscribers discovered they were losing legitimate e-mail. Late Wednesday night, the Web access ...

Critics of aggressive spam filtering have long argued that losing or seriously delaying even one piece of important business e-mail – the dreaded false positive – is an unacceptable price for getting ...

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

Spam. It fills our in-boxes, wastes our time and spreads malware — and it’s only getting worse. According to Ferris Research, which studies messaging and content control, 40 trillion spam messages are ...

There are two senses of stopping spam – stopping it from filling up our in-boxes and stopping spammers from sending it. Of course, if you solve the first problem, you also solve the second. Spammers ...