We’re part of a spamocracy

Have you ever spammed something? Not a little bit? One of your websites, perhaps? Come on, you can admit it. Your secret’s safe with us. It might be safe with us, but it’s not safe with the guys from SecurityFocus. They’ve been monitoring the spam activity in the past few months, and they noticed that in the past 2 (TWO) months, the spam percentage via e-mail was increased by 450%. What does that mean? Well, it could mean that the number of botnets are increasing. It could mean that there are many infected users out there that are recursively infecting others, and it could mean that they’re heading in the wrong direction if things continue to evolve like this.

SecurityFocus monitors about 35.000 clients, and the amount of spam filtered out every week by security software maker Sunbelt Software has more than tripled compared to six months ago.

David Hart, the administrator for Total Quality Management said: “What is most alarming is that new clients–Internet addresses that we have never seen before and which could be new infections–have tripled since June”.

Spam is often reffered to as ‘unsolicited e-mail messages’. For a spammer to know your e-mail address, you should have been in previous contact and/or exchange of information with him. Afterall, it’s newbies’ fault, but who can blame them? If no one would buy the goods hawked by spammers, then the incentive for bulk e-mailers would rapidly go away. The message is simple:“If you don’t like spam, then don’t do business with spammers.”

Personally, I receive somewhere around 500 spam e-mails per day, counting all of the e-mail addresses I’m using (personal, work, e-mailing lists and such), and I’ve reached to one conclusion. Even if you did nothing wrong to be bombed with such messages, all you have to do is find out which anti-spam product works best for you, and use it. Trust me, that works.

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Posted in Internet by Bogdan Boghiu