It's a question not only of spam and virus control, but archiving all e-mails as required by Securities and Exchange Commission law.

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William Leichter of the e-mail security firm Tumbleweed Communications confirms that the arrest of Robert Soloway failed to control spam e-mail levels for more than a few days.

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The spam problem has been brought under control because a few smart firms, out of their own self-preservation, made it their business to get these problems under control.

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The U.S and 55 other countries left WCIT last week without signing the treaty after extensive negotiations led to a treaty text that included language on spam, security, and government control of the Internet.

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If Capellas can pull all that off, he will get to do the geeky stuff that really turns him on: launch a slew of new Internet-driven services, from central spam filters to home networks that consumers can control from a PDA anywhere in the world.

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Internet security firm FireEye has spotted some 450, 000 infected computers from the Srizbi botnet - alleged to account for as much as half of all the spam on Earth - trying to "phone home" and reach their command and control servers.

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All around the world, tens of millions of computers under the control of cybercriminals, and, unknown to their owners, are used to send spam, distribute malware, and carry out identity theft.

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