Are We Winning the Spam Wars?
If you believe this article in The Register, the answer may be yes. Here’s an extract.
Spam volumes almost halved in the three months between August and the end of October, according to Symantec.
Symantec’s hosted services unit (formerly MessageLabs) credits a 47 per cent sharp decrease in global spam volumes to action by the authorities against botnets and organised cybercrooks. In October, authorities in the Netherlands took down several servers associated with the Bredolab botnet. The action followed the September closure of spamit.com, a key player in the unlicensed pharmaceuticals spam racket, and arrests in the US, UK and Ukraine of scores of suspected members of a ZeuS phishing Trojan ring.
If more of us installed proper protection against spam, we might continue to see a decline.
Let’s hope so! If you don’t want to spend money on spm protection, you could always use Clamwin, as I do.
The Anonymous Widower 
My pharmaceutical spam has decreased considerably recently. My main email accounts are with virgin media, who are my service provider, and googlemail which I use for my lists and social emails. Both have excellent spam filters, it is very unusual indeed to get any spam in my inbox, and when I check my spam boxes, there very very rarely anything in which isnt spam. I use AVG as my virus programme, the paid for one, not the free one.
Logic tells me that spam must pay or people wouldnt send it, but I have to say, it amazes me that anyone would actually buy anything from these websites.
Comment by liz | November 13, 2010 |
You’re doing the sensible thing at the user end. but what seems to be happening is that finally they’re rounding up some of those who distribute and conreol the bot-nets, that actually send the spam.
i doubt it’ll be the end, as there are still millions of infected computers out there, because they haven’t used any decent virus protection.
Comment by AnonW | November 14, 2010 |
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