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Tag: anti-spam

  • Canadian firm fined $1.1m for breaching anti-spam law

    First success story for long-awaited CASL. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), the agency responsible for enforcing Canada’s anti-spam law (CASL) has issued a $1.1m dollar fine to Compu-Finder , a Morin-Heights, Quebec-based firm, for violating the law. Anti-spam legislation plays an important if usually fairly invisible role in the fight against spam. It…

  • New VB100 and VBSpam test results published

    See which anti-malware and anti-spam solutions achieved certification. Shortly before the Christmas holidays, we published a new VB100 anti-malware test report as well as a new VBSpam test report. VB100 – clean sweep John Hawes and his team put 29 anti-malware solutions through their paces on Windows Server 2008 and, for the first time ever…

  • ESET buys COMDOM

    Security vendor strengthens anti-spam capabilities. Slovakian security vendor ESET has announced the acquisition of Slovakian anti-spam firm COMDOM Software . The anti-spam firm’s developers have previously worked with ESET on the development of the NOD32 platform for Linux mail servers. Now, ESET will use COMDOM ‘s anti-spam technology and expertise to strengthen its range of…

  • VB anti-spam testing: results revealed

    VB reveals results of trial test run: 1 platinum, 2 gold and 2 silver awards. After months of preparation, discussion and hard work, VB is pleased to announce the results of the VB anti-spam testing trial, with one product achieving platinum-level certification, two achieving the gold level and two achieving silver level. The first test…

  • Virus Bulletin announces new anti-spam certification scheme

    Independent security testing body to certify anti-spam products. Virus Bulletin has launched a new anti-spam certification scheme. Until now, end-users have had little factual information available about the performance of the various different spam filters. Now, Virus Bulletin will use the experience gained during more than a decade of anti-malware comparative testing to run a…