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You get it at the office. You get it at home. Postal spam a.k.a. junk mail. Since the late 1800s flyers, ad-mail, unsolicited magazines and pamphlets have been cluttering up people’s mailboxes and, now, people’s inboxes as well. In the U.S. alone 5.6 million tons of catalogs and junk mail are thrown out every yearRead more

Remember seeing that little note as the bottom of the webpage: Our partners may contact you from time to time? It’s now become an industry standard to receive daily complaints from customers getting spam from mass mailing providers such as Vertical Response, Constant Contact or Shuremail. The customers didn’t opt-in (directly) and I have toRead more

On one of the security mailing lists I follow, someone had an interesting conundrum. His management wants a 100% effective spam stopping solution. My bosses are demanding 100% spam prevention, and I’d like to find some industry papers, articles, etc … that explains why that’s not advisable (if even possible). My understanding is that spamRead more

We ran an online survey at Vircom asking our visitors what they think about Spam and email security. Our findings are presented below. Among the scary findings – 36% of respondents said they would open a spam email because of a catchy subject line. Read on for more…Read more

We are extremely pleased with the tremendous response that we have received to this point from our Fight Email Spam survey. As promised we have randomly selected winners of our gift card prizes and the grand prize of an iPhone 4s. The gift card winners are: Alain St.-Pierre from Dollard-des-Ormeaux, Quebec $50 Best Buy giftRead more