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InternetNews July 5, 2005 Jim Wagner	China Joins Spam Fight China is throwing its weight behind an international anti-spam coalition of government agencies and private sector organizations to combat unwanted e-mail messages.
InternetNews March 18, 2004 Colin C. Haley	ISP Gets Tough With 'Zombie' Customers Comcast pushes its broadband customers with virus-infested spam zombies to clean up their act -- or else.
InternetNews February 4, 2005 Jim Wagner	Experts Clarify ISP Spam Threat A recent surge in spam originating from ISP e-mail servers has the industry roiled, but an e-mail industry 'meltdown' isn't imminent.
InternetNews October 27, 2005 Jim Wagner	A Private, Public Approach to Internet Safety Tech companies and government agencies continue their efforts to make computing safe.
InternetNews January 27, 2005 Jim Wagner	Postini: Spam Building Muscle Trends in e-mail security threats in 2004 point to more difficulties in 2005.
InternetNews June 16, 2005 Jim Wagner	AOL The Most Infected? That's 'Silly' The ISP topped an infection list at 5.3 percent, but AOL officials blamed the way the rate was calculated.
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.
InternetNews February 4, 2005 Jim Wagner	Spamhaus Accuses MCI of Hosting Spam Gangs Spamhaus Project blasts ISP over hosting policy. MCI counters that it's not in the business of censoring Internet content.
CIO February 15, 2004 John Edwards	E-Mail Alert! Companies discuss taking a centralized approach to e-mail threat management.
InternetNews January 12, 2011	U.S. Leads Pack in Spam Traffic in 4Q PCs and mobile devices in the U.S. accounted for nearly one in five spam messages in the fourth quarter, according to security software vendor Sophos.
InternetNews December 23, 2004 Jim Wagner	Cyber Criminals Prove Elusive Law enforcement efforts to snare virus writers are improving, but the most destructive ones have evaded capture.
InternetNews November 16, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas	IronPort: Time To Turn Tables on Zombies ISPs use reputation filtering to stop outbound spam.
InternetNews January 15, 2009 Richard Adhikari	The Web's Latest Threat: Smarter 'Zombies' Hacker-controlled PCs are outwitting security software - and are growing in number.
InternetNews November 16, 2004 Jim Wagner	Spam Spikes This Holiday Season Recent stats by Symantec show spam volumes leveling off, but think of it as the calm before the holiday storm.
InternetNews July 16, 2010	U.S. Snags Dubious Honor of Spam Leader The United States has again landed atop the list of countries that relay spam e-mail messages, according to software-security vendor Sophos, while the United Kingdom gains some ground.
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?
InternetNews April 8, 2004 Robyn Greenspan	The Deadly Duo: Spam and Viruses, March 2004 The spam ratio only grew by 1 percentage point, but the economic damage from malware was staggering.
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.
AskMen.com Thomas Bey	5 Things You Didn't Know About Spam 1 - Spamming is legal... 2 - Many companies you know use spam... 3 - The spam is coming from inside your house...
InternetNews December 29, 2004 Tim Gray	Viruses Crowd Internet in 2004 A banner year for virus writers meant a bad year for Internet users, but much of the damage was preventable.
InternetNews July 1, 2004 Sharon Gaudin	U.S. Sending More than Half of All Spam While the flood of spam has increased sharply during the last six months, a new survey also shows that slightly more than half of it worldwide is coming out of the U.S.
T.H.E. Journal April 2004	NetCleanse, Spam Sleuth Protect From Viruses and Spam Solutions for protection from viruses and spam that promise to eliminate computer vulnerabilities.
PC World May 15, 2001 Frank Thorsberg	Does Your PC Harbor Zombies Waiting to Attack? Unprotected broadband connections can leave your PC open to raids by malicious hackers...
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 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 April 1, 2008 Judy Mottl	Mobile Spam Threat Worth Keeping a Watchful Eye Right now carriers are doing the anti-spam lifting but things could change.
InternetNews August 29, 2005 Jim Wagner	Spam Sentinels For a Network's Edge A new server from CipherTrust acts as a security buffer for the e-mail gateway.
InternetNews July 29, 2009	Spam Learns a New Language While spam levels are at their highest levels in years, much of it is the same - just translated for different countries.
InternetNews January 20, 2004 Ryan Naraine	'Bagle' Virus Threat Upgraded New e-mail virus includes a backdoor component which could allow an attacker to execute malicious code on infected systems.
PC World June 2006 Andrew Brandt	New Devices Promise Protection in a Box These security gateways claim to stop threats before they reach your network. Netgear WGT624SC Super G Wireless Router... the Spam Cube... TrustEli Eli Security Appliance...
InternetNews December 8, 2009	Brazil Edges U.S. as Top Spammer in Cisco Report Spam volume in the U.S. decreased in 2009, though it's still enormous.
InternetNews April 29, 2010	China Slides Out of Spam Top 12 While China is widely regarded as the unofficial headquarters for hacking and digital espionage, the country doesn't even crack Sophos' Top 12 for spam production.
Inc. October 2005 John Fried	Spam Glossary How to talk like a chicken-boner: a junk e-mail glossary.
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Inc. October 2005 John Fried	How to Avoid Scammers, Spammer and the Rest of the Bad E-guys Before anything else, you need to know who the on-line scammers are and how to keep them out.
InternetNews July 20, 2009	Microsoft, Sophos: Most Spam Comes From U.S. Where does spam come from? If you guessed the U.S., you'd be right.
PC Magazine January 26, 2005 Matthew D. Sarrel	Lock Down Your E-Mail Businesses that live and die by e-mail have to get serious about keeping it safe. If you're concerned about viruses that can overload your servers, legal and regulatory liability for message content, and an ever-growing deluge of spam, read on.
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.
InternetNews July 24, 2006 Tim Scannell	U.S. Atop 'Dirty Dozen' Spam List The U.S. again snatched the top prize as the world's leading spam throughway for the third year in a row.
Fast Company July 2003 Alison Overholt	War On Spam The Anti-Spam Research Group is committed to ridding the world of spam.
CIO November 15, 2002 Meridith Levinson	Seething over Spam New tools and legislation can help--but nothing can stop it all
PC World July 23, 2007 Lincoln Spector	Proper ID for a Zombie PC If you can't tell by its ravenous appetite, glassy-eyed stare, and leprous casing, how do you know whether your system has become one of the living dead?
InternetNews September 13, 2010	Enterprises Recover From 'Here You Have' Virus One of the most potent email-based viruses in years had enterprise IT managers scrambling over the weekend to get their email servers back in top form.
InternetNews March 22, 2005 Jim Wagner	IBM Gets Into E-Mail Authentication Big Blue comes out with its FairUCE solution to spoofed spam, which currently only works on Linux-based MTAs using Postfix. It uses a challenge-response method when it encounters questionable e-mail.
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 January 26, 2011	Spam Volume Tumbles in January New report from security software vendor Symantec reveals that worldwide spam traffic fell to a two-year low in January, largely due to a sharp decline in pharmaceutical spam.
InternetNews December 29, 2005 Roy Mark	AOL: Spam Down, Sophisticated Methods Up 'Spam mafia gangs' continue to mislead and deceive e-mail users.
InternetNews May 11, 2005 Jim Wagner	Suit Filed Against Spam Ring The Massachusetts' Attorney General files suit against seven alleged spammers with operations around the world.