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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."
Third placed Turkey and tenth placed UK are wthin a +- 6% band, probably close to the margin of error in the analysis.
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Yes; it takes plenty of processor time, electricity, memory, bandwidth, and administrator time to make sure that you don't get spam. Also, not everyone uses e-mail the same way you do. Some of us actually want to hear from people we don't know.
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Yes, sir! something should be done about spam!
And, while we're at it, someone should really do something about domain squatting.
Oh year, and what about phishing? Why isn't anyone doing anything about that!?
Seriously, guys; get on it. I'll be watching the third season of Seinfeld DVD.
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I know that my email (especially in my older accounts) certainly matches the rate of spam in excess of 90% by volume.
And the part about a new spam site created every 3 seconds shouldn't surprise anyone either. As much as people despise spam, there is still money to be made in it. Thats why people continue to send spam, of course. Thats also why people continue to buy new domain names to sell discount "drugs" and "software".
This just tells us what many of us already knew. The spam problem will continue to get worse until we actually apply a economic solution to this economic problem.
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I was wondering if anyone had any numbers on the market share of IE vs other browsers in Turkey. A few quick google searches were hesitant to reveal anything.
.ru is simply discarded. For me this is a 100% filter that doesn't have any false positives. Nigeria is second on the list.
More interesting is the ratio of infected computers. It isn't stated. But take the population of the US and the Population of Turkey and do a comparison. The other interesting number is the number in Russia. Russia has a large population, but how many of them even own a computer or have internet? Something tells me they have a very high proportion of infected machines. This is most likely due to Microsoft and their WGA program keeping most of those machines unpatched and vulnerable as the population in general can't spend several months wages for a genuine copy.
It's bad enough that anything ending in
Everything else left then goes to spam filters. This lightens the load.
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Find IP and shut it down.
This is the problem with decentralized control.
Isp's are part to blame.
- Included you on a To: or CC: list of recipients,
- Used your email address to search for you on social sites,
- Sent you e-cards/e-invites
That's pretty amazing. I'm sure most of the spam in my "friends only" or "business only" email accounts were not leaked by me but by a trusted party who didn't know better.You want fun, go home and buy a monkey!
while everything else goes to a yahoo account. The yahoo account is filled with spam...
Then you do get spam. You've just chosen to deal with it by making sure it all goes to a particular address.
As soon as you sign up to a public mailing list, post on usenet or put your email address on something not terribly well known for privacy (eg. Facebook), you'll find that - lo! - you get spam.
Either that or your school's email admin staff have finally discovered the Holy Grail of anti-spam solutions. Perhaps they'd care to share it with us?
First, let me say that I hate spam. I understand that in most cases it's annoying. I also understand that in most cases it's sent via illegal access to unwitting people's computers, and that there is no doubt a real cost associated with the amount of bandwidth that it consumes. I understand that in most cases the products that it advertises are scams.
But I have to wonder, how does that statistic that 92.3% of all email sent is spam relate to the rate of junk mail sent via snail mail? I don't know about you, but I'd say that 90% or more of the mail that comes to my home is junk mail, so I'm not sure that the spam statistic is all that surprising. This may just be the expected signal/noise ratio.
No, the reality is that spammers don't care if the product they're pumping sells at all. Spammers sell spam, it's the fool that's buying the spam that wants to sell "herbal \/1agr4". Sure, spammers would like it if someone would buy the stuff, but when the current fool finally realizes he's not making any money there's always another sucker with a get rich quick scheme and a little cash to buy the spammer's services.
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