Yet another company has been fined for Anti Spam Violations.

AvTech Direct was fined $3 mln in civil penalties and to pay $375,000 in restitution to the Seattle School District for sending 1,500 junk spam mail, according to The Seattle Times.

The company was sued for sending unsolicited e-mails to employees of schools, hospitals and other nonprofit organizations. Each e-mail constituted a violation of the state Consumer Protection Act.

Spam Blocker and Virus Protection for China

According to Forbes Sina.com a branch of Chinas Internet Portal operator has selected US based ServGate to provide Internet security for Sina's users.

Network Computing test Exchange Spam killers

According to Network Computing, their Barracuda spam filter got a tag rate of 78% - that is 78% of all mail received is spam, which is largely the same figure as last year.

So Network Computing asked 16 vendors to submit their anti-spam software for testing on their Exchange Servers on Syracuse University Real-World Labs ®

Read on to learn who won!

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