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  • Spam catch rates drop in latest VBSpam test

    Catch rates significantly lower than in previous months. In the latest VBSpam comparative test, 20 solutions achieved a VBSpam award, but the majority displayed significantly lower spam catch rates than in other recent tests. Overall, products’ spam catch rates were significantly lower than in previous months, with many products seeing their rates of missed spam…

  • Confirmed newsletter subscriptions half as likely to be blocked

    Good practice means good performance. Newsletters that do not confirm their subscriptions are twice as likely to be blocked by spam filters as those that do, Virus Bulletin has found. The research, in which over 500 newsletters were sent to 21 anti-spam solutions, was part of the most recent VBSpam comparative test . Unbeknownst to…

  • Explosive growth of malicious spam

    Spam filters less likely to block current malware campaigns. While several reports show that the global levels of spam have seen a steady decline over the past year, this month has seen a spike in the number of spam messages with malicious attachments, security firm M86 reports. Using well-known tricks to deceive users, including subject…

  • VB calls for collaboration amongst anti-spam vendors

    VB finds that, when it comes to spam filtering, a combined effort outperforms individual products. Virus Bulletin has discovered that running several spam filters in combination could be key to getting the best performance out of them. Following the last VBSpam comparative review of anti-spam products, the VB test team established that if the efforts…

  • Anti-spam products do well in VB testing

    VB announces anti-spam certification results. Virus Bulletin has announced that 12 products earned VBSpam awards in its latest round of comparative anti-spam testing. A total of 14 products took part in the test, with two achieving the highest level Platinum certification, while nine earned Gold awards and one achieved Silver certification. The Platinum awards were…