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 ...

Indeed, an ASCII art spam e-mail reading "Viagra-$1.15" and "Cialis-$1.99" made it past the spam filters of my Yahoo Mail and Gmail accounts. Google declined to comment specifically on ASCII art spam.

You can cut down on spam emails by using a third-party spam filter (such as Norton Security Online). That way, the email will have to go through two security filters before it reaches your inbox ...

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 ...

New software promises more order for your in-box, separating the critical messages from the "reply all" excesses. It could be an efficiency boon--or a political bomb. Spam filter a career killer?

The result was not only a conspicuous drop in spam, but an alarming increase in the number of e-mail messages reported missing in action, a few of which fit quite comfortably into the category of ...

The software will help users filter spam out of e-mail and keep it out, said Atri Chatterjee, vice president of worldwide marketing for Sunnyvale, California, McAfee.com.

Microsoft Outlook's spam filters stopped working for many people this morning. Users affected by the issue are receiving many or all spam messages in their main inbox at the moment.

C-Command Software’s $30 SpamSieve has been around since 2002 and is hands down the best spam filtering software for Mac. Unlike the brute-force filters on servers, SpamSieve learns from your email.

To create the filter, sample sets of spam and non-spam mail were analyzed by breaking the text into tokens. Tokens are created from the text of a message using a few simple rules: Case is ...

Q: I’m getting about 30 to 50 spam emails a day in my mailbox. Is there anything I can do to filter these out? I’m using Network Solutions as my email service provider. — W.S. A ...

Machine learning: 4 ways digital ‘pattern-matching’ is more than just spam filtering In the battle of spam filtering, the art of war is machine learning, which keeps systems updated with the help of ...