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 spam filter is a program that automatically processes incoming messages to sift out spam and potentially dangerous computer viruses. There are many types of spam filters, thanks to the ever growing ...

Getting to the bottom of your spam folder is not as scary as it sounds. (Photo: Getty) "Have you checked your spam folder?" You've probably heard this question before. But perhaps you weren't quite ...

Microsoft Exchange 2000 and 2003 email servers allow the administrator to create and edit junk mail filters. Exchange 2003 utilizes the Intelligent Message Filter to provide the administrator with the ...

When Apple updated Mail with a built-in junk management system, it was touted as being one of the best around because of its capability to learn and adapt to different types of spam. The built-in junk ...

I got a copy of Office 12 prerelease from a friend (MSDN), just so that I could see what it was. I played around for an hour or so then uninstalled it. When I ran my Outlook 2003 install again, my ...

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 ...

Fearing that spammers are increasingly finding ways to slip their unwanted messages past the current generation of filtering technologies, activists are taking a second look at a proposal to use ...

“Are @gmail's spam filters broken? I've had a sudden influx of some crazy #NSFW spam in my inbox! What's going on #Gmail?” - source “It is a strangely comforting thing that I can just search for ...

Critics of aggressive spam filtering have long argued that losing or seriously delaying even one piece of important business e-mail – the dreaded false positive – is an unacceptable price for getting ...

Spam. It fills our in-boxes, wastes our time and spreads malware — and it’s only getting worse. According to Ferris Research, which studies messaging and content control, 40 trillion spam messages ...