Sadly, junk email and text messages are now parts of everyday life. A recent email received from a reader of The Berkshire Eagle asks “I’m wondering why I keep getting so much junk mail when I don’t ...

According to the American Economics Association, consumers and firms collectively spend a minimum of $20 billion annually due to spam. This money goes in a variety of directions, and anti-spam ...

LAS VEGAS (AP) _ Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates has announced new junk e-mail filtering technology called SmartScreen at his keynote address at the annual Comdex trade show in Las Vegas. Gates, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Here's the 411: your spam folder is basically a catchall spot in your email account that automatically filters out junk mail, or ...

Bulk e-mailers are digitally signing unsolicited messages in hopes of bypassing popular filtering programs, but updated software has been modified to detect the trick, experts said this week. The ...

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