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    Microsoft has filed seven lawsuits against unnamed defendants who it believes sent spam that violated the US anti-spam law CAN-SPAM.

  • Bill Gates 'can't stop spam'

    More than 80 percent of security professionals do not believe that Bill Gates' crusade against spam will solve the problem, according to a survey.

  • Technology solution to slicing spam lags

    A coalition aiming to erase junk e-mail unites behind the law but stumbles over technology.

  • IE flaws used to spread pop-up toolbar

    An adware purveyor has apparently used two previously unknown security flaws in Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser to install a toolbar on victims' computers that triggers pop-up ads, researchers said this week.

  • EU members ignore spam directive

    The European Union's antispam directive, passed in July, has been ignored by most EU member states because it will not stop the spam problem, according to research published Tuesday

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  • Microsoft's role in ID theft

    Peter Cullen, the company's chief privacy strategist, explains how Sender ID can take a bite out of spam and phishing.

  • Messagelabs: Clean up Net effluent now

    Messagelabs CTO Mark Sunner claims that ISPs allowing unfiltered traffic to flow to customers is like a water authority pumping out raw sewage. Additional reading: Microsoft reward snags suspected Sasser author

  • Microsoft's bounty hunter

    Attorney Hemanshu Nigam says virus writers "ought to think twice before they hit the send button."

  • How corporate Australia battles information overload

    We look at five organisations that took different approaches to satisfying a common business requirement: to improve the management of corporate information. We hear from Jetstar, Family Court, SHFA, Count Wealth and MBF.

  • Winning the junk e-mail wars with Outlook

    Take this four-step approach to ridding your company of its worst bandwidth hog: junk e-mail. From Outlook's filtering features to taking a spammer to court, you'll see how the war can be won, as long as you know the rules.

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