E-Mail spam on your cell phone

Most spam articles related to cell phones focus on unsollicited text messages being sent to users, but an interesting article by Ross Rubin for Wireless Ziff Davis looks at another hasard, checking your mail on your wireless device. Most anti-spam measures are service-centered, meaning that a user is safe on their desktop or notebook, but not on their PDA or cell phone.

"Furthermore, fighting spam has special challenges on a handheld or advanced handset. The first of these is that the e-mail client is not Outlook, Microsoft's extensible and popular program for which many client-side spam-fighting tools have been developed. Some are also available for Outlook Express, the even more popular e-mail client that Microsoft is phasing out. However, few if any tools are available for the kinds of proprietary clients often seen on the leading mobile platforms of PalmSource, Microsoft, Symbian and Good. That eliminates innovative approaches like the collaborative spam-fighting service SpamNet".

emily | 9:42 AM | Spam, Viruses and Hoaxes |
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