Blue Coat Systems released results for 4Q2004, ended April 30. Revenue increased 79% to $21.1 million with a GAAP net income of $1.4 million. More

We explain what a patent is, how the validation process works and why phoney patents are registered, the damage to the industry that results, and what can be done to rectify the situation.

This short bulletin contains updates to our January report, “How Not To Be a Spammer,” including new ideas and industry best practices that we think are valuable additions to the original toolbox.

The April Clearswift Spam Index indicates that financial spam is close to overtaking pharmaceutical spam as the most common form of junk email. Pornographic spam decreased to 5% of total spam in April 2004 with healthcare spam decreasing to 40% and financial spam increasing to 38%. More

MessageLabs announced that more than two thirds of the 840 million emails scanned for its customers were intercepted as spam. Email traffic sent to the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Australia and Hong Kong represents more than 97% of the global spam volumes being filtered by MessageLabs. The US was the worst hit, with 83% [...]

Network Associates released McAfee GroupShield for Lotus Domino on the Sun Solaris platform, its anti-virus solution. Key features virus detection, cleaning, content filtering and blocking; McAfee Outbreak Manager to proactively prevent large-scale, mass mailer outbreaks, and McAfee Alert Manager to provide IT administrators with notification of malicious threats. Available immediately. More

Network Associates announced version 3.0 of McAfee WebShield Appliance, its solution for anti-virus, content scanning and anti-spam at the Internet gateway. Key enhancements: full policy support, new dashboard and configuration wizard, and Transport logging which collects envelope data on a SMTP session, among others. Available 3Q2004. More

Network Associates released McAfee LinuxShield, its anti-virus solution for Linux-based platforms. Key features: on-access scanning to monitor systems for new attacks, automated updates, and heuristic and generic detection, among others. Available immediately. More

Symantec is warning its customers about security vulnerability Norton AntiVirus 2004. The flaw resides within the way an ActiveX control within Norton AntiVirus fails to properly verify or validate information sent to it. It could let attackers run code of their choice on a user’s system, launch unauthorized pop-ups, or even create a denial-of-service condition [...]

Symantec announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire Brightmail in a cash transaction valued at approximately $370 million. The acquisition, conditioned upon customary regulatory approval, is expected to close by early July. More

SurfControl announced End-User Spam Management and Report Central tools, its enhancements to SurfControl E-mail Filter. Spam Management sends daily e-mail to inform users that the system has isolated suspect spam e-mail messages that require their review. Report Central key features: web-based interface to provide a view into all SurfControl E-mail Filter reports, scheduling and auto-distribution [...]

Download Files:Many organizations send email out in large volumes to interested parties, including customers, prospective customers, and suppliers. Usually, they do so having received a positive opt-in from the recipients. Nevertheless, the CAN-SPAM Act is having unanticipated consequences, forcing a number of bona fide mass emailers to hold off from their distributions. In this webinar, [...]

Another new worm has been discovered, entitled W32/Lovgate.ab@MM or Lovgate.ab. The worm spreads via email, sending itself to addresses found on the victim’s machine in the form of a .ZIP archive, or as an .EXE, SCR, .PIF. CMD or .BAT file. The virus also has the ability to perform a companion infection of .EXE files, [...]

Download Files:We discuss results of a recent Ferris Research/Slipstick survey of messaging managers, to determine a variety of key statistics about Microsoft Exchange systems. Topics include average message store sizes, client migration plans, server software upgrade plans, and support staff headcounts. In addition, we will present messaging mangaers’ views on a wide range of current [...]

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