Botnets are often used to send spam and launch denial-of-service attacks.

The downside is obvious: anyone can follow you and proceed to send spam.

Threat Level was skeptical last week that Conficker would do anything more than send spam.

The ratio is the likelihood of a computer running a particular operating system that will send spam.

Windows computers tend to be the most targeted by malicious software designed to send spam, Wood said.

But in the Republic, companies would be allowed to send spam unless a consumer indicates it is not wanted.

After three years of get-rich-quick books on how to send spam, a definitive work on its deterrence is long overdue.

Many of the desperado companies named send spam promoting sex sites, and include Lovetoys Online, the Notoriously Nasty Spammer, and PlanetLovejoy.

Then there's the services business, using the thousands of computers compromised and taken over by Trojans to send spam, or new viruses.

Google is investigating a growing number of reports that hackers are breaking into legitimate Gmail accounts and then using them to send spam messages.

QUANTUM is vastly more effective than just sending spam.

Two companies have been convicted of sending spam email or text messages, including one sent to barrister and former Olympic swimmer Michelle Smith de Bruin.

Two companies have been convicted of sending spam email or text messages, including one sent to barrister and former Olympic swimmer Michelle Smith de(...)

Previously, the ICO had to prove that a company caused "substantial damage or substantial distress" in making such calls or sending spam text messages.

A phone shop and a beauty clinic were fined €6,000 and €3,000 respectively when they were prosecuted today for sending spam text messages.