Microsoft touts 'Sender ID' to fight spam, scams
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Proposed tech standard would verify senders' IP addresses to cut malicious phishing and annoying Viagra pitches.
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Several Internet companies, including Microsoft and eBay, are working on new ways to keep spammers from infiltrating their sites.
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New software allows recipients of spam to band together to target known websites behind the messages. The idea is to bombard the sites with messages, slowing them down and making them more expensive to run.
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The fight against spam is getting more serious as the net&#39;s big players impose conditions on bulk mail senders. From October, AOL, Yahoo, Hotmail, Earthlink and Comcast want those that send lots of messages
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Some people have started using registered e-mail systems to prove that specific documents were sent or received.
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Microsoft this month is moving forward with the developer implementation of its anti-spam Sender ID framework, but open-source advocates and mail vendors doubt whether the software giant&#39;s new proposed license meets open-source requirements.
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nazarijo writes &quot;In an article entitled Spammers using sender authentication too, study says, Infoworld reports that a study by CipherTrust shows that SPF and Sender ID (SID) aren&#39;t nearly as effective as we expected them to be when combatting spam.
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Yahoo on Monday implemented its own sender authentication scheme, dubbed DomainKeys, for its free Web-based mail service. DomainKeys is one of several authentication technologies that hope
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New service helps companies thwart online scams.
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In addition to its recent failed attempts at making its Sender ID framework a standard, &#39;Net-wide solution to the problem of spam, Microsoft has also filed over 100 lawsuits against the spammers themselves.
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A new service for fighting e-mail fraud seeks to tap the wisdom of the Internet community: Anyone will be able to submit suspected scams for others to vote up or down.
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There are several technologies similar to DomainKeys, including Cisco&#39;s Identified Internet Mail and Microsofts&#39;s SenderID.
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Sci/Tech News, America Online, the largest Internet service provider, said it would stop using Microsoft&#39;s (Nasdaq: MSFT) Sender ID technology to filter unwanted e-mail being sent to its millions of members, and instead embrace an open-source friendly
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Microsoft Corp.  filed seven lawsuits against senders of spam, or unsolicited e-mail, for transmitting messages without labeling them as sexually explicit content, the world's largest software maker said on Thursday.
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Attempts to fight spam by identifying e-mails have hit problems over Microsoft&#39;s involvement in the process. The Internet Engineering Task Force, an international standards body, has rejected Microsoft&#39;s contribution to the so-called Sender ID proposal.
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Spammers may be about to get a taste of their own medicine. A British company is today launching software that it claims will allow computer users to hit back at the mass mailers who clog up our inboxes with
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America Online has declared it will not support the Sender ID antispam technology proposed by Microsoft, instead placing its online might behind SPF, or Sender Policy Framework. The announcement is the second major setback for Microsoft's efforts, following news this week that the IETF standards body would not validate Sender ID due to patent concerns. Meanwhile, Yahoo! is focusing on another standard called DomainKeys, leaving the industry without a consensus on how to block spam.