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InternetNews April 29, 2004 Roy Mark	Feds Can Spammers Under New Act Federal authorities use Can Spam to raid prolific Michigan spam operation, which specialized in spoofing to hawk bogus diet patches.
PC World April 2004 Tom Spring	Spam Wars Rage The new federal antispam law doesn't seem to be working. Will anything stop the e-mail onslaught?
Reason October 2004 Hanah Metchis	Cleaning Up E-Mail The Anti-Spam Technical Alliance (ASTA) hopes to create methods to digitally sign content and make mail identity "spoofing" not just illegal but technologically impossible.
InternetNews May 20, 2004 Janis Mara	CAN-SPAM Gets Mixed Reviews in Senate Testimony Five months on, the anti-spam measure is far from an unqualified success.
InternetNews December 20, 2005 Roy Mark	FTC: CAN-SPAM Is Working With a big helping hand from technology, the Federal Trade Commission say spam volume is declining. But are spammers staying away?
Wall Street & Technology March 2, 2004 Jim Middlemiss	IT Challenge: Spam The Challenge: Junk e-mail is becoming a big problem, as spammers clog inboxes with dubious offerings from weight-loss remedies to cheap Viagra. How to filter the spam without filtering important e-mails is a problem.
InternetNews August 30, 2004 Colin C. Haley	Court Slaps Wireless Spammer An injunction is issued against a spammer for allegedly sending millions of unsolicited text messages to Verizon Wireless customers.
BusinessWeek August 11, 2003 Lorraine Woellert	Out, Out, Damned Spam Junk e-mail accounts for roughly half of all network traffic. Here are five ways to beat it back
InternetNews April 1, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas	The Red, White and Blue of Spam Nothing has changed since the Federal Can-Spam Act became law except that more of it seems to becoming from the U.S., according to one industry player's report.
InternetNews September 24, 2004 Sean Michael Kerner	Redmond Aims, Fires at Spammers' Accomplices Latest suit in Microsoft's spam fight takes aim at claims of bulletproof hosts for spammers.
InternetNews March 30, 2004 Roy Mark	AOL to Reward Spam Victims The ISP is expected to give 'valuable asset' seized from spammer to victim of e-mail scam.
Entrepreneur July 2004 Catherine Seda	Spam Uncanned Is the Can-Spam legislation reducing unsolicited e-mail? Not according to a February 2004 survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project.
InternetNews May 14, 2004 Robyn Greenspan	The Deadly Duo: Spam and Viruses, April 2004 The spam volume is rising, e-mail trust is eroding, and viruses are rampant, but Internet users are sending more legitimate messages and CAN-SPAM is making a positive impact.
InternetNews October 29, 2004 Colin C. Haley	ISPs Band Together Against Spam AOL, EarthLink, Microsoft and Yahoo sue individuals who allegedly violate the Can-Spam law by sending millions of unwanted e-mails and IMs.
PC World August 2002 Daniel Tynan	Spam Inc. In 2002, spam is not just a scourge, it's big business. Our investigator reveals who's behind the assault on your in-box and why stemming the tide won't be easy.
InternetNews May 19, 2009 Alex Goldman	Spammers Find 'Healthy' New Tactics With Acai Zombie networks and botnets are ramping up spam and using sophisticated filter penetration tactics -- to sell Acai drinks?
PC World July 2004 Andrew Brandt	Privacy Watch: Why Your Friends Believe You're Selling Viagra Spammers who forge your address on their junk messages can clog your inbox and harm your reputation.
InternetNews August 25, 2004 Jim Wagner	Feds Hit Alleged Spammers in Sting The U.S. Department of Justice is set to announce several arrests and indictments against alleged spammers.
InternetNews March 16, 2009 Alex Goldman	Report Says Spam Arms Race Escalating The bad guys are recovering from the loss of McColo and learning how to prevent being taken down so easily again.
InternetNews October 17, 2005 Roy Mark	FBI Raid Closes Spam Operation Federal agents shut down spammer Alan Ralsky with some help from the CAN-SPAM Act.
InternetNews August 20, 2004 Jim Wagner	A Day in the Life of a Spammer Bulk e-mail provider looking for sympathy, finds he can't even disclose his real name.
InternetNews May 26, 2009 Alex Goldman	Spam Now More Than 90% of All E-Mail Spammers are increasingly directing users to compromised social networks while botnets' influence grows, according to MessageLabs.
PC World August 2002 Kevin McKean	Up Front: The Secret War for Your In-Box Efforts to combat spam, and how the spammers work around them. Also, efforts to legislate spam.
InternetNews April 27, 2006 David Miller	Bouncebacks: The Hidden Cost of Spam A nasty side effect of spam and e-mailed viruses is costing companies an estimated $5 billion per year in IT resources, according to security services company IronPort.
InternetNews March 10, 2004 Roy Mark	Major E-Mail Providers Bare Can Spam Teeth AOL, EarthLink, Yahoo! and Microsoft use new federal law to go after kingpin spammers.
T.H.E. Journal August 2004	Spam Sleuth Enterprise Helping keep e-mail inboxes spam-free is the goal of this Blue Squirre offering, which is an anti-spam server solution that resides on an e-mail server or as a separate server to screen out spam before it reaches the internal mail server.
InternetNews January 28, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas	FTC Closing CAN-SPAM Loopholes Spam-fighting feds figure out the fine points of anti-spam law.
PC Magazine October 28, 2003 Neil J. Rubenking	No Such Addressee For the past month, I have been receiving e-mail with addresses similar to but not exactly mine in the To: field. Or have I?
InternetNews May 5, 2004 Sharon Gaudin	Record Broken: 82% of U.S. Email is Spam Outdoing most analysts' worst predictions, spam accounted for 82 percent of all U.S. email last month.
PC World April 2006 Tom Spring	Spam Mutates Junk ads are migrating to blogs, instant messages, and cell phones... Interview with a man who makes a living from sending spam mail.
The Motley Fool September 24, 2004 Alyce Lomax	Microsoft's New Suit The tech behemoth targets more spammers for lawsuits.
InternetNews December 2, 2004 Sean Michael Kerner	Fighting to Keep Smut-Spam in a Brown Wrapper Microsoft brings seven new lawsuits against smut-peddling spammers under the CAN-SPAM law.
Reason November 2004 Jeff A. Taylor	Spamming Voters Political spam has steadily increased during the election year, suggesting that it could make up 5 percent of all spam going into 2005. Such spam is exempt from the requirements of the CAN-SPAM Act, which regulates only "commercial" messages.
InternetNews June 7, 2004 Robyn Greenspan	The Deadly Duo: Spam and Viruses, May 2004 The spam volume remains unchanged over the month, but Internet users don't have reason to celebrate, as the plateau is not indicative of an imminent decline in unwanted messages.
InternetNews December 27, 2004 Tim Gray	AOL Winning Its Spam Battle? The ISP said its spam numbers are dropping and staying that course.
InternetNews November 29, 2005 Roy Mark	ISPs Making Progress on Spam Internet service providers are making progress in slowing spam, according to a recent Federal Trade Commission study.
PC World January 31, 2002 Jim Welp	Spam Begone Eating more spam than ever? Here's how to keep junk e-mail from ruling your in-box...
InternetNews January 14, 2005 Roy Mark	Big Spam Bust, Texas Style State files multi-million dollar lawsuit against two of the nation's largest e-mail operators.
InternetNews July 19, 2005 Tim Gray	Download Politely Asks Spammers to Stop Security firm looks to clean up the information highway by sending an automated response to spammers. Some question the ethics of the approach.
Salon.com April 19, 2000 Damien Cave	Can spam be canned? ISPs spend millions annually fighting spam; a federal law headed for the House promises scant relief.
PC Magazine March 2, 2005 Larry Seltzer	Who's Winning the Spam War? AOL says its users are getting less spam. Can this be true? Is this because of its technology, or the effective legal action it takes against spammers?
InternetNews March 11, 2004 Roy Mark	Washington Beefs Up Can Spam The two powerful federal agencies empowered as the whip hand of the Can Spam Act began the process Thursday of fully implementing the United States' first national law aimed at curbing unsolicited bulk e-mail.
The Motley Fool March 10, 2004 Alyce Lomax	The Anti-Spam Squad It seems politics and spam make strange bedfellows. Some of the Internet's heavy hitters filed a collective lawsuit today against spammers.
New Architect August 2002 Bret A. Fausett	Blind Vigilantes Blackhole lists offer dark prospects for those unfairly judged to be spammers.
PC World September 2003 Anne Kandra	Consumer Watch: Are You Helping a Spammer? Bad guys can hijack your PC and use it to transmit trash with impunity.
InternetNews October 30, 2008 Richard Adhikari	Spammers Hit MobileMe, Google Blogspots With new automated tools to help them, spammers are getting better at cracking CAPTCHA - a program that protects Web sites by generating and grading tests that humans can pass but computers cannot
InternetNews July 20, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas	Microsoft: CSI for the FTC Redmond crime-stoppers do forensics work to help the FTC charge X-rated spammers.
InternetNews December 13, 2006 Brian Livingston	Has the 'SpamThru' Trojan Doubled Spam or Not? A Trojan horse named "SpamThru" that has reportedly taken over approximately 73,000 PCs.
InternetNews December 14, 2009	Security Firm Finds Spammers Thriving in U.S. McAfee's December spam report finds spammers are still operating with relative impunity despite looming six-year anniversary of FTC's Can-Spam Act.