AOL, E-Mail Companies Sue Spammers
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The nation's largest e-mail providers today filed a new round of lawsuits against Internet spammers allegedly responsible for shoveling millions of junk e-mail messages into computer users' in-boxes and their instant messaging screens.
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The Texas attorney general has launched a lawsuit against two men it says are spammers.
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For the second time this year, an alliance of major Internet providers filed a coordinated group of lawsuits aimed at stemming the flood of online junk mail.
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Microsoft Corp is suing a company it claims provides so-called &quot;bulletproof&quot; web hosting to spammers. A company attorney said it is the first time anybody has been sued for allegedly providing spam &quot;support services&quot;.
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The suits include the first filed by America Online against spammers who use instant messaging, a practice the online industry calls spimming.
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Iphtashu Fitz writes &quot;CNet News is reporting that 4 major internet providers - AOL, Earthlink, Microsoft, and Yahoo, have filed another bunch of lawsuits against spammers.
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Microsoft files new lawsuits against spam while AOL battles &#39;spim&#39;- unsolicited messages sent to users of its instant messaging service.
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Spammers have come close to ruining e-mail--and threaten to do the same to Internet telephony. The time to stop them is now.
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SEATTLE - Microsoft Corp. filed nine new lawsuits against spammers who send unsolicited e-mail, including an e-mail marketing Web hosting company, the world&#39;s largest software maker said Thursday.
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Texas sued one of the world's largest  "spam" e-mail operations on Thursday, seeking millions of  dollars from two men it says are responsible for sending  illegal messages on the Internet, the state's attorney general  said.
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For the second time this year, an alliance of major Internet providers - including Atlanta-based EarthLink â-iled a coordinated group of lawsuits aimed at stemming the flood of online junk mail.
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Add America Online Inc. to the growing list of companies and organizations shunning a spam-fighting proposal from Microsoft Corp. AOL cited "tepid support" for Microsoft's so-called Sender ID technology, which seeks to cut down on junk e-mail by making it difficult for spammers to forge e-mail headers and addresses, a common technique for hiding their origins.
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Microsoft today filed seven lawsuits against hackers who allegedly used PCs infected with Trojans to send sexually explicit spam e-mail that violated the Can-Spam US anti-spam law.
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Three Ontario men are being sued for allegedly sending millions of forged e-mail messages from Internet giants Microsoft Corp. and Amazon.
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Online retailer Amazon and Microsoft have teamed up to sue a Canadian spamming operation the companies allege is responsible for sending millions of forged e-mails claiming to have come from Amazon.
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NEW YORK 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 500 (m) million -- or
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bulk messages clogging instant-messaging accounts. AOL and its Anti-Spam Alliance partners -- EarthLink, Microsoft, and Yahoo