Years ago, email spam was a huge problem. There was an escalating war between spammers and spam filters. Eventually, spam filter technology won. Although email spam is still a thing, the vast majority ...

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, ...

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Some popular free Web services are playing both sides of the fence when it comes to protecting consumers from pesky marketers, offering to block junk e-mail while they help advertisers push promotions ...

Part of the problem stems from the new tricks used by spammers to fool antispam solutions. Many of those tricks are created and enhanced daily, which makes daily updating of antispam solutions an ever ...

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Anecdotal evidence from Gmail users—including the author of this story—suggests that something changed with Gmail’s spam filter settings in recent weeks, resulting in the email provider letting ...

Bulk e-mailers are digitally signing unsolicited messages in hopes of bypassing popular filtering programs, but updated software has been modified to detect the trick, experts said this week. The ...