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Q4 2007 Spam Reached 96 Percent Of Email
David Utter
Staff Writer
2008-01-15
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Global spam levels measured by Commtouch swelled through the fourth quarter of 2007, hitting a high of 96 percent of all email in October 2007.
While we can't speak for the rest of the Internet, we do see the inbox sift out roughly six good messages out of 300 at any given time at SecurityProNews.
That puts us in the neighborhood email security vendor Commtouch observed. Global spam levels measured by the company for the year hit an astonishing peak of 96 percent.
Astonishing unless one is sitting in the lead-lined writing room at our international HQ, watching the wonderful SpamBayes plug-in go to work on an inbox freshly opened in the morning. Commtouch said on their blog they "monitor unfiltered data streams of Internet email traffic, not including internal corporate traffic. This open traffic is analyzed to find the ratio of spam to legitimate email messages."
The cruft collecting in inboxes, unless one has a product cleaning it on a continual basis, can contain any number of unwanted pests. Minor annoyances like plaintext stock-pumping emails pale in comparison to the malware-linked spam leading to infections and possible takeover by a remote server.
Those takeovers tend to connect a victimized PC to a broad network of other corrupted machines. These devices function as a botnet, which increasingly in these times provide outlets for the distribution of the Storm worm, a ferociously prolific pest that could be on millions of computers worldwide.
About the Author:
David Utter is a business and technology writer for SecurityProNews and WebProNews.
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