SAN FRANCISCO — Cloudmark, the

SAN FRANCISCO — Cloudmark, the company that empowers consumers to fight spam, today announced the immediate worldwide availability of SpamNet, the first, easy-to-use Microsoft(R) Outlook(R) add-in that stops spam immediately. For the first time, SpamNet enables consumers to fight back against spam with a single click. SpamNet is safe, seamless, and transparent to the consumer. It saves people time by stopping 75 percent of spam automatically, so they only see the mail they care about. SpamNet never deletes an email; it is just moved to the “spam” folder.

Every time a consumer uses the one-click “block” feature to remove spam from their inbox, they also notify the SpamNet community at large. This automatically blocks spam for all other SpamNet consumers. Similarly, if a person thinks a certain message is not spam, they can click an “unblock” button and share that knowledge with the network. SpamNet has a Truth Evaluation System (TES) to guarantee that only valid spam messages are blocked. This solution enables “spamfighters” to work together and as the community grows, SpamNet gets more effective. Now consumers can go to http://www.Cloudmark.com to get a free copy of the SpamNet add-in and benefit from instant spam relief.

Update Not managed to get this to work whilst in the office but this may be due to the firewall although the f/wall does not have any errors in the logs.

Found a bugfix on Microsoft’s

Found a bugfix on Microsoft’s technet that fixes a problem I’ve had on my laptop. When I do a file-open or a file-save, Windows 2000 takes ages – literally minutes – to come up with the file dialog box. Apparently this is a known issue with Windows2000sp2 and there is a bug fix available from them. Alternatively you can wait for service pack3 to come out! You shouldn’t have to pay to get this call in as it’s a known issue.
Update I’ve got this file installed on the laptop and it seems to make a little bit of a difference – still takes about 10 seconds for the file open dialog box to appear in notepad though!