A meeting reminder from the boss, a lascivious letter from a lover, or the daily tally from a fantasy football league: Which e-mail would you read first? Programmers at a small software company say ...

Mailshell, a San Francisco software company, is working with the nonprofit site TechSoup.org on a campaign to help charities fight unwanted e-mail messages. The effort will culminate in Mailshell’s ...

Founded in 1994, Nemx Software provides content security solutions for Microsoft Exchange servers. The small firm, consisting of only seven full-time staff members, provides anti-spam, anti-virus and ...

Rohnert Park, Calif. – April 29, 2010 – Red Condor, an award-winning provider of fully managed email security solutions, today released version 7.1 of its anti-spam software. The latest software ...

A software routine that deletes incoming spam or diverts it to a "junk" mailbox (see spam folder). Also called "spam blockers," spam filters are built into a user's email program. They are also built ...

Turning the number of false positives and false negatives into easy-to-digest statistics is different, because the anti-spam community has not come to any agreement on which numbers to use across ...

An IT pro talks about the tricks spammers use to evade anti-spam filters and recommends countermeasures. Anti-spam systems can help reduce the onslaught of unwanted e-mail, but wily spammers are a ...

Verizon is finally getting serious about the fight against spam calls. The company has announced that it will soon enable spam call filtering by default, starting with a few select Android smartphones ...