IETF deals setback to Microsoft antispam effort
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SEPTEMBER 14, 2004 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - An antispam technology proposed by Microsoft Corp. as a standard way of identifying the senders of e-mail messages suffered a blow last week when a group within the
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SEATTLE: Microsoft Corp was dealt a setback on Tuesday after the Internet Engineering Task Force decided not to adopt Microsoft&#39;s e-mail sender ID standard that would make it easier for Internet providers to block unwanted junk e-mail.
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Failure to reach consensus on Sender ID halts ambitious effort to create a technical standard for curbing junk e-mail.
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Microsoft says it is investigating reports that a security update for the Internet Explorer browser issued last week has crippled some users' ability to get on the Web.
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eTrust Antivirus mistook a critical security process for malware.
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Accessing the beta version of Yahoo Mail on a PC with Symantec's updated antivirus software incorrectly causes alarm bells to go off.
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Now that Microsoft&#39;s (Quote, Chart) two patent efforts regarding e-mail authentication are publicly available, anti-spam advocates are raising even more questions about how the patents might impact an industry-wide anti-spam protocol effort called Sender
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Most of the open-source community is finding that it can&#39;t deal with Microsoft&#39;s stance on spam-protection intellectual property.
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Australia's Kingfisher Bay Resort, under attack from increasingly clever spammers, has gone public with its decision to switch from Symantec's antispam product to a competitor. The incident spotlights the difficulty of keeping such products "up to scratch."
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A fix for a serious flaw in Microsoft's Internet Explorer has been released early to combat escalating attacks.
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Microsoft posted an automated fix late for a week-old crippling problem with Internet Explorer, replacing a registry hack it had offered Wednesday.
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Microsoft issued a patch for a vulnerability in its server software that could allow an attacker to spoof trusted Internet content.
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Microsoft rejects claims from security researchers that a spoofing technique discovered on Internet Explorer is a vulnerability.
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The &quot;highly critical&quot; vulnerabilities stem from a flaw in IE&#39;s drag-and-drop feature and in the browser&#39;s security zone.
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Two prominent open-source software groups have rejected a proposed technology standard backed by Microsoft Corp. that would close a loophole used to send unsolicited commercial
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Microsoft has released bulletin MS04-039 reporting a security vulnerability in Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2000 and in Proxy Server 2.0, and has also announced the availability of the patches to resolve these issues.
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The newly discovered vulnerabilities could leave systems open to remote attacks, according to antivirus companies. Microsoft has not yet announced fixes.