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... the same phenomenon within a specific sector, take anti-spam, which is something I know a little about. Are signatures or heuristics ... A customer doesn’t care, as long as it stops the spam. All of the recent tests have yielded very similar results regardless of ...

Blog entry - Mike Rothman - 2006-01-17 15:40 - 1 comment

... so that users could vote on each software. Not unlike spam, sometimes spyware/adware is in the eye of the beholder. Because someone ...

Blog entry - Mike Rothman - 2006-01-27 15:16 - 1 comment

... at 98%, tomorrow 93% and the next day 100%. That's the way spam works. It's still a serious arms race. So let's say a customer is swayed ...

Blog entry - Mike Rothman - 2008-09-11 06:28 - 0 comments

... out that this is still a bad idea. The answer to stopping spam is not to launch denial of service attacks on the spammers. I'll also ... to have end users stop buying products advertised through spam. As long as there is an economic payback, there will be spam. I'm not ...

Blog entry - Mike Rothman - 2006-05-29 21:30 - 1 comment

I mentioned in a recent Daily Incite about how Network World took some editorial liberties in naming Shlomo Kramer, one of the founders of Check Point as the "inventor of the firewall." In a subsequent TDI, I mentioned how Dave Piscitello called ...

Blog entry - Mike Rothman - 2006-04-18 22:05 - 0 comments

I do have to say that the reach of the tech media is amazing. My recent NetworkWorld column on xenophobia has definitely struck a chord. I'm hearing from lots of folks. Some folks enjoyed the perspectives and others... not so much. I've hear ...

Blog entry - Mike Rothman - 2006-04-11 15:39 - 0 comments

... more stuff in their black box. Users still just want the spam to stop. -  MessageLabs release $13 is not a lucky number for ...

Blog entry - Mike Rothman - 2008-09-02 07:55 - 0 comments

... because it has SenderID. But should it be stopped? Is it spam? These nuances seem to get lost in all the statistics. Every email ... problem does it solve? It certainly not helping to fight spam and it hasn't done anything to fix phishing, so they can jabber all ...

Blog entry - Mike Rothman - 2006-04-19 07:42 - 0 comments

... ( here ). It's all about volume. The volume of spam and other bad email ebbs and flows, and fundamentally organizations need ... job to manage the flows. Like last November when image spam hit hard. Lots of companies were caught flat footed and they needed to buy ...

Blog entry - Mike Rothman - 2007-03-28 09:50 - 0 comments

... inroads. We had application oriented attacks, so we needed spam gateways, web filters, and web firewalls. Now we have application ...

Blog entry - Mike Rothman - 2008-02-15 09:43 - 0 comments