It's hard to believe, but people continue to open spam e-mail, setting themselves up for viruses, botnets, and other malfeasance. Dave Rosenberg has more than 15 years of technology and marketing ...

Junk e-mail, known commonly as spam, continues to flood inboxes throughout the country. Terence Smith examines the continued effort to block the deluge of unwanted e-mail. You open your computer inbox ...

Once a mild annoyance, unsolicited bulk e-mail--also known as spam--could make up the majority of message traffic on the Internet by the end of 2002, according to data from three e-mail service ...

The arguments about opt-in versus opt-out marketing can be intense. Both approaches have their supporters: The opt-out method is typically favored by business leaders, who claim that all’s fair in ...

There's a new strategy in the spam battle: Call it containment. Filters for blocking junk e-mail from inboxes have improved to the point that doing much more will needlessly kill legitimate e-mail, ...

NEW YORK -- Junk e-mail continued to hit mailboxes around the world Thursday, despite the arrest a day earlier of a man described as one of the world's most prolific spammers. Even if Robert Alan ...

Q: My Outlook e-mail program keeps receiving similar spam messages, even though I've labeled them as junk and blocked their senders. These e-mails have little rectangles between the letters in the ...

It seems like a no-brainer: Spam is a nuisance. ‘‘Doesn't that annoy everybody?'' said Michelle Gregg, 30, strolling the streets of Seattle with her husband and a friend. A new, comprehensive report ...

We continue to investigate an issue where Mail.app seemingly suddenly stops filtering junk mail, and subsequently crashes when attempting to flag messages as junk. The problem appears to manifest when ...

Two years ago, Virginia passed a law that its authors claimed would end unwanted junk e-mail. In a June 28, 1999, column in this magazine, I explained how the new law merely reiterated the prior law ...

Antispam crusaders plan to use an appeals court ruling against unsolicited faxes last week to push harder for a U.S. federal law against unsolicited e-mail. In the ruling Friday, the U.S. Eighth ...