Microsoft Revises Anti-Spam Standard
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Microsoft Corp. MSFT.O on Monday  said it had revised its proposal to weed out "spam" e-mail to  win over skeptical Internet engineers who have been reluctant  to adopt technology owned by the dominant software company.
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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.
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The Internet Engineering Task Force, an organization devoted to  establishing standards for Internet architecture, has raised concerns  about Microsoft's (Nasdaq: MSFT) Sender ID anti-spam technology as a technical  standard.
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America Online reversed course and said it would adopt a proposed technology from Microsoft designed to help beat back spam and other e-mail blights.
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The Internet Engineering Task Force has raised concerns about Microsoft&#39;s Sender ID anti-spam technolgy as an industry standard.
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America Online said it had cut spam on its service for the first time in five years, slashing the annoying email advertisements in 2004 by 75 percent.
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Service provider revamps spam and spyware defenses, offers account lock to members.
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Open-source spam blocker gets legal makeover with switch to Apache license. Oh, and tech upgrades.
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SPAM FIGHTING super hero software behemoth Microsoft has come up with a wizard way of stopping those who send spam from its free Hotmail accounts.
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Ziff Davis - Commtouch's anti-spam software update halts spam by tracking e-mail server sending patterns.
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Microsoft updates IE 7 due to performance issues with its phishing filter.
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Fast, intelligent, automatic spam detector using Paul Graham style Bayesian analysis of word counts in spam and non-spam emails. Filtering adapts to personal tastes automatically. No manual rule creation required. This release adds the final missing pieces to the new parser code.  MBX files and Content-Length headers are now supported.  Database cleanup when signals are caught has also been improved.  I would like to move 1.1 into the stable branch fairly soon so if folks would test out this release and report any problems it would be a big help!   The latest release can be found here: https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=61201&package_id=73566
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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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SPAM could become a thing of the past in around two years&#39; time, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates said on a visit to Madrid. &quot;Spam is a major security problem,&quot; Mr Gates said, noting that progress had been made in the fight against unsolicited mail.
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Leading ISPs, anti-spam vendors, and e-mail software companies are moving quickly to add support for the Microsoft-backed anti-spam technology standard Sender ID, even as some e-mail experts raise doubts that the technology will work.
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Microsoft will start to give some customers the benefit of the doubt with an updated version of its software antipiracy tool, Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications.
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Updated: The Internet giant plans to fight spam by implementing the industry-standard Sender Policy Framework instead, citing tepid support for Sender ID in the open-source community.