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 ...

Ben Johnson has been sending e-mail for months from his Hotmail account, but he just discovered that some of them were diverted to the trash before arriving at their destination. Johnson, 24, an ...

Software King of the World Microsoft is having a few problems with the spam filters on its Hotmail/Outlook webservice. Some users are complaining that their junk email filtering systems are tiggered ...

A new spam filter for Microsoft's Hotmail service is not only bouncing $198 Florida land deals and instant diplomas from in-boxes, it's also thwarting e-mail sent from subscribers to themselves. One ...

Hotmail subscribers have a new problem to contend with: an e-mail janitor. In Microsoft's popular free e-mail service, messages are being swept out and bounced back to senders as the site urges ...

Taking a new twist on an old antispam method, Microsoft plans to use white lists for its free Hotmail e-mail service. Days after Yahoo unveiled new mechanisms for controlling spam, or unsolicited junk ...

Microsoft has sued Connecticut resident Boris Mizhen for allegedly gaming Hotmail's spam filters and sending unwanted emails to consumers. Mizhen, who previously settled a separate spam lawsuit ...

Spam filters are often a huge source of frustration for small business owners. While filters can prevent a deluge of electronic junk mail from clogging inboxes, they can suddenly stop working, miss ...

One-third of the 30 billion e-mails sent worldwide each day are spam. That’s 10 billion daily pitches for herbal Viagra, Nigerian scams, and genital-enlarging creams piling up in our inboxes. Neither ...