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New Spam Site Found Every Three Seconds
Stony Stevenson writes "New figures suggest that 92.3 percent of all email sent globally during the first three months of 2008 was spam. The data from Sophos also indicated that 23,300 new spam-related web pages were created every day during the period, or one about every three seconds. For the first time Turkey's contribution to the global spam problem puts it in the top three offending countries. Compromised computers in Turkey are now responsible for relaying 5.9 percent of the world's junk email, compared to 3.8 percent in the final quarter of 2007."
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Which once again proves Sturgeon's Law which states that 90% of everything is crap. Or 92.3% in this case. Luckily for me gMail is pretty good at filtering the crap, son I only see about 1 spam for every 10 real emails. However, if I look in my junk folder, and compare that to the number of valid emails I receive, I would say that 99% of it is spam.
Anthropic principle: We see the universe the way it is because if it were different we would not be here to see it.
ASSP
30 minutes to install on an exchange server... filters out all the spam.
I run it on all my clients, and they average about 95% of all mail intercepted as spam with a zero false positive rate.
http://assp.sourceforge.net/
Chuck
But the 1st number, the amount new web pages related to spam, needs to be explained a bit more. The original Sophos report at least explain that are the related to the web links included with the mails, but not sure if that implies more spam realted domains, more spam related servers or if the big numbers are more related to different ways to write urls in the same servers,
I disagree. There needs to be a means of getting all these Turks to get their computers infected. I can tell you that there are many many web-sites targeting Turkish internet users for all sorts of attacks. Plus, downloading music using clients saturated with spyware is common and I'd be shocked if many of these were not also trojans.
So, yeah I think Turkey is totally contributing to the spam problem.
Turkish Spam KISS YOU! IT KISS YOU!!! It loving sex with all the womens of the world!
Just because you don't give out your email address doesn't mean someone else can't get it. Website compromises, those idiots who let facebook/myspace/whateverCrapSite log in to their email account to get more address', worm attacks. Hell I got bored and signed my boss up for a whole bunch of porn sites with his home account (he thought he was safe mwahaha).
Also for some reason I am more likely to get spam on my hotmail/gmail accounts than I am on my work account, and I don't hand those emails out to anybody I don't trust (i.e. only my family has them and they're all secure enough for my liking). Go figure.
Me failed English...
FreeBSD over Linux. If my comments seem odd, this may explain...
"For most people it wouldn't matter, but spammers would get charged massively"
Except of course for those who use botnets controlled by compromised servers to send spam, which is most of them nowadays.
I'm not going to change your sheets again, Mr. Hastings.
Try it yourself. I just did, went to my trash folder and opened the first mail. Took me to sale-drug.com, which certainly looks like they have stuff for sale (or at least, they'll take my money). No need to take anyone's word for this, we all have plenty of spam.
After a few months with most of the spam being stock scams, it's back to good old penis enlargers, generic viagra and cialis. It's all so fucking repulsive and insulting.
Is anyone out there running a tarpit?
I have the ability to turn my mail server into a tarpit, but it won't do much good unless there are a lot of other tarpits out there too.
Looks like you could use some enlightenment yourself. here's their top 10 list. According to them, the worst spammer is Russian. Number 2 is in the Ukraine. You have to go all the way down to number 10 before you see anyone in the US.