False positives: The best scores in our test all reflect products that have gotten the science of not tagging legitimate mail as spam down to the noise level. Any false positive is a problem, and ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. There are many measures of a spam-blocking product, but ...

The last six months have not been particularly kind to the antispam community. Late last year, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit limited the reach of both state and federal spam laws to ...

In terms of spam activity, there is a significant spike -- almost double mail volume -- towards the end of the month. Mail volume declined gradually to its monthly low of about 51,639 messages during ...

Researchers have proposed an alternative to those wavy, distorted random words or word-number combinations, called "captchas," that Web site visitors must decipher to complete online transactions. The ...

How big can a test get? We found out with our latest in-depth look at the anti-spam industry. Spam is still a huge problem, and there is an equally large market opportunity to fix it. A newly reported ...

EarthLink Inc. and Yahoo Inc. said Monday they would begin tests of a new anti-spam technology that encodes digital signatures into customers' e-mail as a way to separate legitimate messages from ...