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 ...

A software routine that deletes incoming spam or diverts it to a "junk" mailbox (see spam folder). Also called "spam blockers," spam filters are built into a user's email program. They are also built ...

Turning the number of false positives and false negatives into easy-to-digest statistics is different, because the anti-spam community has not come to any agreement on which numbers to use across ...

An IT pro talks about the tricks spammers use to evade anti-spam filters and recommends countermeasures. Anti-spam systems can help reduce the onslaught of unwanted e-mail, but wily spammers are a ...

SPAM filtering is available on the email system at Purdue University. For more information read Frequently Asked Questions about Spam Filtering. Purdue IT has developed the following best practices to ...

Verizon is finally getting serious about the fight against spam calls. The company has announced that it will soon enable spam call filtering by default, starting with a few select Android smartphones ...