A new breed of pop-up ads is appearing on Microsoft Windows users' computers. The so-called "Messenger spams" have security experts and system administrators scratching their heads and recipients fuming.

A supposedly Internet-savvy Republican candidate for governor of California, one of the few states with an anti-spam law, isn't campaigning against unsolicited e-mail -- he's sending it. Bill Jones' campaign sent out thousands of unsolicited e-mails t...

A new great wall is being built, this time across the Internet. Constructed by frustrated systems administrators and intended only to stop spam, the wall could eventually cut off much of the e-mail communications between the East and the West.

Strange things are afoot in blogland. Owners of weblogs have recently noticed that their referral logs have become the newest target for spam.

The FTC now has the most complete spam database in the world, a collection of over 20 million missives containing the solutions to all human wants and woes.

Is your spouse dissatisfied with the size of your spam? A brand-new website has made several hundred thousand pieces of unsolicited commercial e-mail available for you to download today.

Delegates at the annual meeting of China's National People's Congress roundly criticized Western systems administrators that are blocking all e-mail from China as a means to stop spam, but they also called for new laws to make sending spam illegal in ...

Jesus preached the gospel of turning the other cheek, but what would he have said about spam?

When Ken Pugh sued the Elizabeth Dole for Senate campaign last month for sending him spam, it wasn't money that motivated him.

A woman in a major British media company recently contacted the company's entire, 30, 000-strong staff with an urgent query: "Has anyone got any blu-tack?"