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Business Definition for: Spam Filter

  • software available from an Internet service provider which blocks e-mails that contain certain terms or other attributes that identify the message as potential spam

Additional Resources

CompuServe Barbecues Spam; E-Mail Filter Offers Members Choice
COLUMBUS, Ohio--BUSINESS WIRE--Sept. 24, 1997--CompuServe (NASDAQ:CSRV) announced today that it is providing a powerful filter GO SPAMCONTROLS which allows individual members to restrict the flow of unsolicited e-mail or "spam" that can reach them online. The spam filter is automatically "On" unless a member chooses to turn it off. ...
Tags: e-mail, e-mail filtering, spam
Research articles 1997-09-24
BitDefender Achieves Checkmark Premium Certification for Anti-Spam
New Anti-Spam Engine Blocks 97 Percent of Spam in Real-Life Certification Process and Offers Advanced Filter to Block Image Spam
Tags: anti-spam
Research articles 2007-01-04
Keep Spam Filters From Treating You Like Junk
To send out about 3 million e-mail newsletters per week to your customers involves a fine art. A big part of it is making sure that your e-mail gets through to your customers. Send out your e-mail wrong and it probably is going to get snagged in a filter or...
Tags: E-mail, Spam Filter, Newsletter, Spam And Phishing, Security, Marketing, Online Communications, Spam, Corporate Communications
White papers
Spam-Filter Testing Flawed, According to META Group; Evaluations of Spam-Filter Products Rely on Antiquated Testing Methods; META Group Identifies Best Practices
STAMFORD, Conn. -- As organizations continue to battle the proliferation of spam in the enterprise, the importance of choosing the right e-mail hygiene vendor becomes increasingly apparent. In recognizing the critical need for spam-blocking tools, organizations and publications have rushed to develop testing processes in order to segment the vendor...
Tags: best practice, META Group Inc.
Research articles 2005-01-07
Text-messaging spam filter may be illegal.(News)
Byline: HEATHER FORSGREN WEAVER Wireless carriers could be running afoul of the law if they filter text messages in an attempt to reduce spam to their customer's devices because common carriers cannot filter content. At issue...
Tags: FCC, spam, spam filter, wireless
Research articles 2003-05-05
Creating Spam-Free E-Mail
Everyone gets spam in their inboxes - unwanted, fraudulent, illegal e-mail from anonymous senders pushing cheap pharmaceuticals, no-questions-asked credit, even pornography. Spammers must think they are all broke, in pain, impotent or worse. No one wants their legitimate commercial e-mail communications to be confused with this junk. Fortunately the federal...
Tags: Online Communications, Entrepreneurship, E-mail, Entrepreneur.com Inc., Management
White papers 2005-06-06
How Do You Fight Spam?
Spam, the scourge of inboxes everywhere. Until recently, I used SpamArrest -- a server-side challenge/response system that worked quite well for the most part -- to keep it out of my inbox. But I'm a cheapskate (no, seriously, I have a whole blog to prove it), so I decided to try some...
Tags: Anti-spam, Spam, Cyberthreats, Microsoft Outlook, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Rick Broida
Blog posts 2008-01-04
Deersoft Makes SpamAssassin Pro Spam-filter Available to Windows 98 and Windows ME Users; Company Adds Auto-Update to Popular Consumer Anti-Spam Software
Business Editors/High-Tech Writers
Tags: anti-spam, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 98
Research articles 2002-08-07
How to Spam Check Your Press Releases
Here's a tool you need to add to your PR toolkit ASAP: a free automatic content-checker that you can use to test your outgoing email before you send it to see if it is likely to get caught in a spam filter. This tool is essential if...
Tags: Spam, E-mail, Public Relations, Online Communications, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Jon Greer
Blog posts 2008-09-09
Commentary: AOL and Yahoo to charge for spam-filter bypass, Goodmail
Companies that want to ensure that their e-mails are being received by AOL and Yahoo e-mail users will have a new service available to them soon.AOL and Yahoo say that spam and worries about online scams have made e-mail an increasingly unreliable way for companies to reach customers, particularly when...
Tags: America Online Inc., e-mail, Yahoo! Inc.
Research articles 2006-02-10
3Com Selects Commtouch GlobalView Mail Reputation Service as Anti-Spam Filter Service of its X-Family Unified Security Platforms
SUNNYVALE, Calif. & MARLBOROUGH, Mass. -- 3Com Corporation (Nasdaq: COMS) and Commtouch (Nasdaq: CTCH) today announced that 3Com is licensing Commtouch's GlobalView[TM] Mail Reputation Service as the 3Com[R] Anti-Spam Filter Service of its 3Com Unified Security Platforms.
Tags: 3Com Corp., anti-spam, security
Research articles 2008-06-02
Sunbelt Software Adds New Antispam Engine to Ninja Email Security
Sunbelt Software, a leading provider of Windows security software , today announced the addition of a new antispam filtering engine to Ninja Email Security, version 2.1 for Microsoft Exchange. The new engine, Sunbelt Advanced Spam Filter, delivers significant improvements to spam detection against the latest variants of new spam....
Tags: anti-spam, Sunbelt Software
Research articles 2007-08-08
Commtouch Reports May Spam Trends: More and More Spam Originates Outside the United States; Most Spam is Sent From Korea and the EU
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- CommtouchR (Nasdaq:CTCHC), the developer of ground breaking RPDTM technology for real time anti-spam and zero-hour virus protection, today announced spam trends and statistics for the month of May. The announcement was based on data from the Commtouch Spam Detection Center, which analyzed hundreds of millions of...
Tags: spam
Research articles 2005-06-14
Spam Fighting Tips
If you have an e-mail address then the chances are pretty good that you're receiving your fair share of spam. But while people wail on about the insidious spam threat, a little bit of education is just like Vegemite - it goes a long way. From the author's own perspective...
Tags: Spam And Phishing, Security, Viruses And Worms, Spam, Microsoft Corp., Anti-spam
White papers
Protect Yourself From Spam: 6 Ways
Spam has reached epidemic proportions. When you have five times as much spam as you do e-mail you care about, it's time to take back control of your inbox. With no end to the problem in sight, you can reduce, if not eliminate, the spam that gets to your inbox....
Tags: Online Communications, E-mail, Spam, Inbox
White papers
Tumbleweed Email Firewall Doubles Spam Capture Rates for P&O Ports, Reduces Mail Server and Bandwidth Loads; Automated Spam Management Slashes IT Administration Time and Costs
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. -- TumbleweedR Communications Corp. (Nasdaq:TMWD), the leading provider of email and file transfer security solutions, announced today that P&O Ports North America has deployed Tumbleweed Email Firewall with Dynamic Anti-spam Service DAS to filter and secure email communications throughout P&O Ports headquarters and remote offices. By combining...
Tags: e-mail, e-mail server, information technology, IT administration, server
Research articles 2005-01-19
Lyris to Integrate Mailshell Spam Filter into Its MailShield Server Software Application
BERKELEY, Calif. -- Lyris Technologies, developer of the world's best-selling email marketing software, today announced that it will enhance its award-winning MailShield Server email filtering application by integrating Mailshell Inc.'s anti-spam engine. Lyris will include the Mailshell Spam Recognition System MSRS in its upcoming release of MailShield Server 4.0 this...
Tags: e-mail, spam filter
Research articles 2004-09-01
How to Clear the Clutter from Your Inbox
How to Clear the Clutter from Your Inboxemail clutterIn addition to the spam filter on my server, I've added a spam filter called SPAMBATES (C:Program FilesSpamBayesdocsoutlookabout.html) to Outlook. Spambayes is teachable - it learns what I consider spam by what I direct to which of 3 groups: Inbox, Junk suspects,...
Tags: Clear, clutter, e-mail, Spambayes
Discussion threads 2008-04-16
Spam Tsunami as Spammers Target Asian Market, While Netsky Tops Clearswift's Virus Index
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. -- In what is likely to be the latest tactic deployed to fool spam filters, Clearswift's latest analysis of spam has identified a significant upsurge in spam based on double byte characters -- i.e., spam written in Chinese, Japanese and Korean.
Tags: spam, virus
Research articles 2004-09-20
Commtouch Reports Spam Trends For First Half of 2004: Viagra is King of Spam, 5 Countries Are Hosting 99.68% of Spammer Websites and Nearly 10% of All Spam is CAN-SPAM Compliant
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- Commtouch (Nasdaq:CTCHC):
Tags: CAN-SPAM Act, spam, Web site
Research articles 2004-06-30
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