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[	April 24, 2002	]	ZixIt Launches Analysis Service to Assess and Manage e-Mail Security Risks
ZixAuditor(TM) service assists organizations in meeting regulatory compliance and ensuring the use of legally appropriate practices in using e-mail. ZixIt Corp. (Nasdaq:ZIXI), a global leader in secure e-messaging services, today announced it has launched ZixAuditor(TM), a unique assessment service that examines and analyzes an organization's inbound and outbound e-mail communications to identify regulated, high-risk, or proprietary content. ... »
[	April 23, 2002	]	Virus Update: F-Secure Maintains Level 2 Alert on Klez.H
Virus Update: F-Secure Maintains Level 2 Alert on Klez.H As Email Worm Continues to Spread Quickly in its Second Week. F-Secure Corporation (HEX:FSC) is maintaining a "Level 2" alert status for the Klez.H virus, which has been spreading around the world for a week. Klez.H is a mass-mailing Windows worm, which can generate massive amounts of e-mail traffic. Found in the wild on April 17 in various countries in Asia, the worm has been spreading globally, with infections reported especially heavily in the USA, UK and Central Europe. ... »
[	April 23, 2002	]	AOL E-mail And AOL Instant Messenger Service For AT&T Wireless mMODE
America Online, Inc., the world's leading interactive services company, announced today the availability of AOL Mail and the AOL(R) Instant Messenger(TM) (AIM(R)) service for subscribers of AT&T Wireless new mMode(SM). By providing easy access to AOL Mail and instant messaging from mMode capable wireless phones, wireless consumers can communicate and stay informed whenever they are in mMode. ... »
[	April 19, 2002	]	Annoying Worm Writer Wants Job
The latest virus to hit e-mail inboxes is little more than a slight variant of a year-old virus. But it's beginning to resemble never-ending installments of a lousy horror movie series with only minor plot variations. But antiviral firms are reporting that the latest variant of Klez is spreading rapidly, just as its most recent predecessor did just last month. ... »
[	April 18, 2002	]	Napster Co-Developer Offers Anti-Spam Tool
Jordan Ritter, one of the developers of online music sharing service Napster, and software developer Vipul Ved Prakash plan to introduce anti-spam technology next month that reportedly goes further than other such technologies by making judgments about e-mail and learning patterns of spam. The developers claim tests of the technology, called Folsom, on e-mail networks containing 40 percent to 60 percent spam reduced unwanted messages to almost zero. They also said it blocks fewer legitimate e-mails than other technological solutions. ... »
[	April 16, 2002	]	Cordless e-mail phones to hit Europe
Three electronics giants have announced plans to sell fixed-line phones that can send and receive e-mail. Panasonic, Philips and Siemens say they will first launch the cordless phones in Europe, where residents already send an estimated 30bn e-mails via their mobile phones. The companies have yet to reveal plans for the e-mail phones in the US, where about 94 per cent of homes have landline cordless phones. ... »
[	April 16, 2002	]	Bezos' e-mail protest deluges Authors Guild
In response to a plea from Amazon.com head Jeff Bezos, thousands of e-mails have been sent to the Authors Guild protesting the guild's call for writers to remove links on their Web sites to the online retailer. The Authors Guild has criticized Amazon's policy of offering used editions of new books, noting that neither authors nor publishers receive royalties, which they do on new books that also sell for more than the used editions. ... »
[	April 15, 2002	]	Advanced Mailbox Processor v1.1 is Available
In the new AMP version you can delete e-mails from the invalid domains, technical e-mails or e-mails by wildcards mask or regular expression. Also, several small bugs were fixed. You can learn more about Advanced Mailbox Processor on AMP homepage, and get it from our downloads page.
[	April 15, 2002	]	What are e-mail extractors for?
Most people think e-mail extractor is a one from spam programs. It is a major spammer's tool, indeed. But, like any other tool, e-mail extractors can be used for many different applications. The very fact that you are extracting emails list from an HTML document on a local disc or on a web-site doesn't explicitly mean that you are going to send unwanted messages to the addresses extracted. Below you will find a couple of examples of how one can use e-mail extractor for absolutely "legal" purposes ... »
[	April 15, 2002	]	Watchdog Group Questions Legality of Chicago DM Show Promo
The Chicago Association of Direct Marketing rescinded an offer late last week after an Illinois anti-gambling organization accused it of running an illegal promotion for next week's Direct Marketing Days conference. The promotion, of which there were at least two versions -- a letter and a self-mailer -- offered early registrants a chance to win four direct marketing reference guides. The offer said in part, "We're only giving away 15 sets - and you can only be entered in the drawing if you pre-register for DM Days right now." ... »