America Online Reports Drop in Spam
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America Online said that spammers were starting to give up - at least when it came to sending junk to its subscribers.
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As a satisfied user of Time Warner&#39;s (NYSE: TWX) AOL service for the past dozen years, this week&#39;s news that the country&#39;s leading online service has made great strides in eradicating spam isn&#39;t lost on me.
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ZDNet UK reports that Lycos Europe&#39;s in-your-face anti-spam promotion may have been more effective than it intended. Ostensibly designed to slow but not take down spam servers, the &quot;Make Love Not Spam&quot; distributed
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US authorities said yesterday computer users everywhere could notice a decrease in junk email after the arrest of a man described as one of the world's most prolific spammers.
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Anti-spam vendors hit back on Tuesday against analyst firm Gartner&#39;s claims that the level of spam is falling. &quot;I don&#39;t agree with it at all,&quot; said Mark Sommer, chief technology officer at MessageLabs.
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American spammers resurgent The US was top of the spam charts for the month of June, according to new e-mail security statistics from IE Internet.â¦
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America Online Inc. (AOL) has decided not to fully support Microsoft Corp.&#39;s Sender ID spam-fighting plan after the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and the open- source
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Spam deluge eclipses virus email threat The number of viruses hitting Irish inboxes has fallen but spam continues to rise, according to figures from IE Internet.â¦
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Coimbatore: Have you noticed a rise in the number of unsolicited junk e-mails or spam in recent days? Most Net users would have, particularly after a holiday or when the system had remained shut for a couple of days.
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A variation of spam is sliding past spam filters into inboxes, but it&#39;s not likely the new trick will be successful much longer, a security expert said Thursday.The spam messages, urging recipients to buy a stock, have an MP3 audio attachment but no subject line or text, said John Graham-Cumming, an anti-spam consultant and researcher who is based in France.&quot;I think this is the first time we&#39;ve seen this,&quot; said Graham-Cumming, who tracks new kinds of spam.The audio messages, which vary in length, contain a warbled, robotic voice with a British accent encouraging people to invest in Exit Only, a company that owns a Web site, www.Text4Cars.com, which connects vehicle buyers and sells through SMS (Short Message Service). Exit Only says it&#39;s not involved in sending the spam.Graham-Cumming said the spam falls into the category of &quot;pump and dump&quot; fraud. Scammers invest in a company with a low-priced stock and send out a round of spam, causing gullible investors to buy it and increase the stock&#39;s price.As the stock price peaks, fraudsters cash out, which causes the stock to precipitously fall, burning other investors. The practice is illegal.Exit Only was trading around $0.41 on Thursday. Not much detail is available on the company, but it issued a news release on Tuesday heralding the launch of its Text4Cars service in the Los Angeles area. The news release said the company hoped to be fully launched in the United States in early 2008.Exit Only&#39;s CEO, David Dion, said he learned of the spam around Wednesday morning. He has since notified the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and said his company has nothing to do with the spam run.&quot;I am very distraught by this,&quot; Dion said.Dion said only about 100 shares have been traded so far, so the scam hasn&#39;t been successful.The messages are more annoying than harmful. But there are a variety of defenses e-mail administrators and security companies can employ to stop it, Graham-Cumming said.Spam filters can be configured to cull messages with MP3s, since most companies don&#39;t have a business use for the file type, Graham-Cumming said. Administrators can also change their e-mail server settings to slow down the speed at which they receive messages with MP3 attachments, he said.That method has been proven to frustrate spammers, who typically shut down the connection if the spam isn&#39;t going through quickly enough since the delay consumes valuable bandwidth, Graham-Cumming said.These spam messages are also relatively large -- around 100KB -- compared to other spam, which may be another reason this kind of spam may not be around for long. Spam messages with larger file sizes require more bandwidth to send, meaning spammers can&#39;t send out high volumes of messages, Graham-Cumming said.&quot;Honestly, my prediction is this is going to be around for a while and disappear,&quot; he said.E-mail security company MessageLabs said it was catching about 10,000 spam messages with MP3s per hour since late Wednesday night.
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America Online said Monday that it has seen a substantial decline in unsolicited e-mails this year, though some anti-spam experts said the company may be the only Internet provider experiencing such a drop-off. -The Washington Post
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After reaching a peak of nearly 30 percent, PDF spam is now less than 1 percent of all spam messages sent.
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America Online says you&#39;ve got less mail thanks to its ongoing battle against spammers. Despite the recent spike in spam, the company claims to have had a banner year in its fight against the scourge, which
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Internet service provider also says amount of spam blocked at e-mail gateway is down significantly.
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WASHINGTON (CBS.MW) - Yahoo and EarthLink said they are adding a feature that promises to reduce spam. Free! Sign up here to receive our Before the Bell e-Newsletter!
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Although print circulation continues falling, major American newspapers are experiencing a healthy rise in traffic to their websites. Most encouraging: The web editions are attracting a younger audience.