I've been using Mail's junk filter for a while, but just recently it seems to have gone haywire. It was working quite well, but recently it's become quite poor at guess spam (even if I recieved the ...

A group of e-mail marketers on Tuesday set up an Internet forum for people to air grievances about spam filters--which can swallow legitimate messages along with the targeted commercial come-ons. The ...

Networking Services and Information Technologies (NSIT) rolled out a new $170,000 junk e-mail manager in mid-December with hopes of better protection of cMail inboxes from bulk and spam e-mail. “[It] ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you feel like Gmail spam has been worse lately, you're not alone. If you feel like Gmail spam has been worse lately, you're not ...

Follow the steps below to change the level of protection in the Junk email filter in Outlook: Launch Outlook. On the Home tab in the Delete group, click the Junk button. Select the Junk E-mail Options ...

Years ago, email spam was a huge problem. There was an escalating war between spammers and spam filters. Eventually, spam filter technology won. Although email spam is still a thing, the vast majority ...

There's been a recent surge in a method to evade spam filters: disguising text by using the venerable ASCII art method. But so far, spammers are bungling the attempt. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET ...

Anecdotal evidence from Gmail users—including the author of this story—suggests that something changed with Gmail’s spam filter settings in recent weeks, resulting in the email provider letting ...

This week in Security Levity, I’m digging further into the topic of spam filtering technology. Today, I want to talk about why spam filtering seems to be such a continual challenge for filter vendors.

Network protection provider Internet Security Systems said Wednesday that it is acquiring privately held security software maker Cobion for $32.8 million to increase its spam filtering capabilities.