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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Search for the missing emails in the search box, check Spam and Trash folders, inspect filters and forwarding settings, and finally use the Gmail Message Recovery Tool to get the permanently deleted ...

Built-in and add-on spam busters—programs designed to work with your e-mail program to eliminate spam—go about determining what is and isn’t spam in a variety of ways. They may include some or all of ...

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 ...

Oh, spam. There is so much of it. Some estimates say that 90 percent of email sent around the world is spam. Sometimes it’s hard to sort the wheat from the chaff; or the ham from the spam. It’s been a ...

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