AOL, Microsoft Spar on Spam
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It wasn&#39;t long ago that competitive entities seemed to be joining together to combat Internet users&#39; common foe, spam. However, despite the fact that big Internet players
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America Online Inc. said Monday it is once again supporting a Microsoft Corp. plan to combat unwanted bulk e-mail by verifying senders of messages, a move that could rekindle industry adoption of a new system for attacking spam. -The Washington Post
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A volley of lawsuits was launched against alleged spammers on Thursday by the four major US Internet service providers. This includes a case brought by AOL against twenty individuals accused of spimming, or
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Amid news of America being the largest Spam sending country in the world with a whooping 42% of all Spam sent, AOL the world&#39;s largest Internet service provider is reporting a 75% decrease in Junk e-mail based on its internal member reports.
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In order to stop the spread of spam, Microsoft will start charging users who use Outlook or Outlook Express to access e-mail. It will stop being free in April of 2005.
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AOL said yesterday that it turned the corner in its fight against spam, recording 75 percent fewer customer spam complaints in 2004 compared to a year earlier.
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Amazon.com and Microsoft Corp., the twin peaks of the Seattle area&#39;s technology community, are joining forces to attack the tide of spam and fraudulent e-mail messages that clog in-boxes
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AOL released its second annual top 10 spam terms yesterday, listing the subject lines of the most popular junk e-mails. The Dulles-based company said the number of spams sent to users  was down from 2.4 billion in 2003 to 1.2 billion this year. -The Washington Post
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Microsoft Corp. and Amazon.com Inc., both influential companies, have joined hands in order to take legal action and persue spammers who are targetting these companies and their customers.
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AOL has seen a sharp decline in the amount of spam received and reported by members, the Time Warner unit said today. The company released figures showing a 75 percent drop in the spam reported by subscribers
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AOL is announcing a major victory in the fight against spam. According to America Online&#39;s member spam reports, the ISP achieved a 75% decline in junk e-mail sent to its members in 2004.
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NEW YORK-December 28, 2004 - AOL says it looks like some spammers are starting to throw in the cyber towel. The world&#39;s largest Internet service provider says that the number of attempted e-mails was down
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THE battle against spam took a turn for the worse yesterday when America Online pulled back support for an industry-wide email authentication system aimed at reducing junk email.
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Microsoft and Amazon.com are taking action against e-mail spammers and phishing scam perpetrators, but even two of the most powerful Internet companies on earth will find this fight to be tough going. -washingtonpost.com
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DECEMBER 29, 2004 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - America Online Inc. has declared 2004 a &quot;banner year&quot; in its fight against spam. Spam reports from AOL&#39;s members fell from a daily average of almost 11 million in November
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Internet companies have begun to  change the way e-mail works in order to weed out spam, but  experts on Tuesday clashed over whether the underlying  technology should be controlled by any one company.
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BOSTON - Computer viruses and worms will have to share the stage with a new challenger for the attention of attendees at a conference of antivirus researchers: spam e-mail.