Of the junk mail that I receive about 10% are phishing emails and it’s rising. Are there any solutions out there to reduce phishing or block it? What are ISPs doing to combat this?

ntl announced last week that they had chosen Radialpoint to deliver free desktop anti-virus services to all its customers. Radialpoint, formerly known as Zero Knowledge, will also be supplying Telewest’s suite of security services , although Telewest also appear to be offering firewall, Anti-spyware, Parental control and a popup blocker from Radialpoint/ZKS.

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Yet another spammer hits the dust. A spammer responsible for sending over 10 million junk emails a day has been jailed for nine years by a US judge.
Jeremy Jaynes, also known by his alias, ‘Gaven Stubberfield’ , is believed to have raked in between $500,000 (£260,000) and $750,000 a month through sales of [...]

It looks like the anti-spam laws are finally starting to kick in - last Friday, Richter’s OptInRealBig.com filed for bankruptcy, brought to the brink by lawsuits from New York Attorney General and consumer champion Eliot Spitzer and Microsoft.
OptInRealBig.com claimed assets of less than $10 million and liabilities of over $50 million thanks to the legal [...]

I just read an interesting post on the Aqute Research blog. The post highlighted that ISPs no longer bother to try and explain to new prospective users why they need broadband, they just take it for granted that users will buy broadband, like they buy bread or shoes, just because one does. Rafts of [...]