Spam Bulletin - January 2006

Editor: Helen Martin

Technical Consultant: Matt Ham

Technical Editor: Morton Swimmer

Consulting Editor: Ian Whalley, Nick FitzGerald, Richard Ford, Edward Wilding

2006-01-01

News

New anti-spam group for China

Internet Society of China announces new anti-spam group.

Helen Martin - Virus Bulletin, UK

Attempt to ban voicemail spamming

Rogers Wireless Inc. appeals to Canadian Radio-television and Telemarketing Commission for a ban on voicemail spamming.

Helen Martin - Virus Bulletin, UK

Spammers sued

Spammers in the US face charges.

Helen Martin - Virus Bulletin, UK

FTC says CAN-SPAM can

FTC reports on the effectiveness of the CAN-SPAM Act.

Helen Martin - Virus Bulletin, UK

Feature

The TREC 2005 Spam Filter Evaluation Track

The 14th Text Retrieval Conference (TREC 2005) took place in November 2005. One of the highlights of the event was the TREC spam filter evaluation effort. Gordon Cormack has all the details.

Gordon V. Cormack - University of Waterloo, Canada

Virus Bulletin

Ally in our defences (comment); Inside the Microsoft script encoder (feature); Cooperative heuristics (feature); What is out there? (feature); AVAR 2005: wired to wireless, hacker to cyber-criminal? (conference report); The real reason for the decline of the macro virus (opinion); VB2006 - Montréal (call for papers); Windows OneCare Live Beta (build 0.8.0794.44) (product review)

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