Piles of stuffed animals, clothes, hangers, towels, decorations — even bird feeders — were neatly gathered in Nita Matheson’s Springfield, Virginia, house last Wednesday. In her garage, flattened ...

It is something you would never think you would see — a can of Spam encased in a loss prevention box. After cases of shoplifting increased, one Duane Reade store in Manhattan apparently took steps to ...

Am running a pretty generic email server (CentOS4, sendmail, SpamAssassin with around 25 mailboxes) and the powers that be have inquired about moving to Exchange.<BR><BR>Ideally I could convert the ...

There’s a newsletter that kept dropping into my spam in-box. The reason: Each day it has a different return address, obviously computer-generated. Now, normally, when I spot a newsletter (or some ...

Dan Ackerman leads CNET's coverage of computers and gaming hardware. A New York native and former radio DJ, he's also a regular TV talking head and the author of "The Tetris Effect" ...

Junk E-mail has spawned a cat-and-mouse game of countermeasures so intense that a modern-day Allen Ginsberg might declare, "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by spam." Just when ...

One of the common complaints I’m hearing as I host the Network World Small Business Technology Tour this summer is about spam. We’ve been fighting it for years, and although the tide may be turning in ...

When choosing an anti-spam solution, there is always an unfortunate trade-off between effectiveness in filtering out spam and the possibility of misidentifying important messages as spam (known as ...