Archive for May, 2006

EU Ponders New Microsoft Fight

Wednesday, May 10th, 2006

Wired News Report 09:30 AM May, 09, 2006
Microsoft’s new Vista operating system has put the European Commission in a quandary on whether to open a new front against the software giant before a court clarifies the EU antitrust watchdog’s authority.
Rivals such as Google and Adobe are wary of the new version of Windows, set […]

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Symantec reveals vision for better security

Wednesday, May 10th, 2006

Chief executive John W Thompson promises improved protection for firms
Martin Courtney, IT Week 09 May 2006
The ninth annual Symantec Vision customer and strategy event in San Francisco saw the security specialist commit to protecting enterprise data and online transactions through a combination of client software and service provider network tools.
The company is also looking at […]

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Verizon Offers Refunds to Customers for Spam Filter Snafus

Friday, May 5th, 2006

by The Associated Press (AP)
April 5, 2006
Verizon Communications Inc. is proposing refunds to Internet customers who found legitimate e-mail from friends and businesses blocked by the company’s spam filters, according to a proposed class-action lawsuit settlement.
The company has refined its junk e-mail blockers since the suit was filed last year, both parties said.
Verizon had […]

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Holding back the spam tide

Friday, May 5th, 2006

Karen Dearne
APRIL 04, 2006
case study | Amnesty International Australia
INBOXES overflowing with spam were only half the problem for Amnesty International Australia - the filters were also blocking legitimate email.
“As a human rights organisation, our email addresses are very public, and that tends to makes us vulnerable to spam,” Amnesty information systems manager Steven […]

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Smarter Spam Could Mimic Friends’ Mail

Tuesday, May 2nd, 2006

The next generation of spam-sending zombies would scan E-mail in the user’s inbox, mine it for information and writing patterns, then crank out realistic-looking replies to real messages, researchers warn.
By Gregg Keizer
TechWeb.com
May 1, 2006 01:05 PM
The next generation of spam and phishing e-mails could fool both software filters and the most cautious people, […]

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Exchange Compatible Spam Filters?

Monday, May 1st, 2006

DamienMcKenna asks: “At work our license for Symantec Brightmail is coming up for renewal and I’m looking for alternatives that will cooperate with Microsoft Exchange 2003. Brightmail hasn’t worked consistently since we installed it last year, has a low success rate, the client plugin has been very unstable, and it takes up far too much […]

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