Spam filters are often a huge source of frustration for small business owners. While filters can prevent a deluge of electronic junk mail from clogging inboxes, they can suddenly stop working, miss ...

Tickets to an upcoming sporting event. A receipt from the Nike store for running shoes I bought last weekend. A local newsletter I open every day. Those emails and 82 others were among the legitimate ...

The disruption began Saturday (5am Pacific time, Jan .24) affecting approximately 1.8 billion Gmail users worldwide with widespread email misclassification.

Gmail’s reputation for quietly catching junk in the background has taken a hit. Over the past few days, users have watched trusted filters fail, spam pour into primary inboxes, and legitimate messages ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Here's the 411: your spam folder is basically a catchall spot in your email account that automatically filters out junk mail, or ...

Thought you could escape spam with smart email filters? Think again. A Georgia school district has learned the hard way that it doesn't pay to rely on those filters completely. A Cobb County School ...

Most of these are spam, but at least one definitely isn’t. Before I incur the wrath of non-Gmail users, let me just note that this tip also applies to Hotmail, Outlook.com, Yahoo, and so on. But ...

Over the years, scammers have become very inventive in their efforts to swindle you out of your money, privacy, security and sanity. They have pretended to be everything from your family, friends, ...

A spam filter is a program that automatically processes incoming messages to sift out spam and potentially dangerous computer viruses. There are many types of spam filters, thanks to the ever growing ...

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