Networking Services and Information Technologies (NSIT) rolled out a new $170,000 junk e-mail manager in mid-December with hopes of better protection of cMail inboxes from bulk and spam e-mail. “[It] ...

I won’t say I don’t receive pitches for the occasional mortgage discount or Vegas vacation, the latest performance-enhancing elixir or anatomical wonder pills. Somehow those untidy and still slightly ...

I've been using Mail's junk filter for a while, but just recently it seems to have gone haywire. It was working quite well, but recently it's become quite poor at guess spam (even if I recieved the ...

Enabling Screen Unknown Senders can filter out any messages from unknown numbers. So, it could filter out a message from a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you feel like Gmail spam has been worse lately, you're not alone. If you feel like Gmail spam has been worse lately, you're not ...

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 ...

A growing number of Microsoft Outlook users have had their Focused Inbox inundated with spam and junk mail for a few weeks now. Here's what's going on and how to temporarily fix it. It seems like the ...

There's been a recent surge in a method to evade spam filters: disguising text by using the venerable ASCII art method. But so far, spammers are bungling the attempt. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET ...

A group of e-mail marketers on Tuesday set up an Internet forum for people to air grievances about spam filters--which can swallow legitimate messages along with the targeted commercial come-ons. The ...

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 ...

Network protection provider Internet Security Systems said Wednesday that it is acquiring privately held security software maker Cobion for $32.8 million to increase its spam filtering capabilities.

Jeff Schwartz recently received an inquiry from a senior executive at a major wireless telephone carrier, asking if he could provide some product information about the software his company produces.