Symantec: 3 out of 4 emails in November were spam
According to Symantec’s December State of Spam Report, which took 450 million inboxes worldwide into consideration, 72% of November emails were spam. Spammers and anti-spam programs fought hard in the ongoing battle of what gets to the user’s inbox. Throughout November, spammers employed tactics such as: Thanksgiving holiday captions in subject lines, advertisements of replica products, mass e-mail address collection using an animated snowball .gif image, “free” gift-cards from well-known companies, and seasonal lotto scams.
Companies behind anti-spam products released updated versions of their products, shared information between each other, and once again employed more advanced filtering techniques. More details available in December 2007 State of Spam Report (PDF).
Comments(23)
This problem will never end
mmmmmmm spam
Tell me about it… the number of lotteries I’ve won and the amount of money I’ve been left in wills means I won’t have to go for the viagra or penis enlargement.
Happy hols!
> shared information between each other
they don’t really want to be that good, they would be out of jobs.
I think you mean v14g24
i like to foward my spam to to other spammers, recycle your spam ppl!!
another thing i do, is use their email adress’s and sign them up for all kinds of free alerts and freebees!! mmmmm green eggs and spam!!
i have used my hotmail account for over a year now, and I’ve received like 3 spam mails during this time. not bad, huh?
Wow thats great chris – whats your email address?
what s with symantec…. huh! Kaspersky is the best antivirus posible.over n out !
good to see he rss is back up
cheers rls-p33ps
spam oils the big wheels that the hamsters live in anyway……;)
Everyone should reply to their spam so the spammers get flooded back.
@20
i love given sarcastic replys to some scammers, especially the oones who are supposedly manager of a bank yet use hotmail or gmail as their official email addy, i even had a lotterty win one recently and the email address was lottery.admin@yahoo.com i mean how dumb are they??
Don’t ever reply to a spam email! That way they know someone is there to read it and you will just get MORE spam!
Everyone should reply to their spam so the spammers get flooded back.
With Hotmail, I have not received any spam, unless you consider the couple of eBay and Paypal phishing emails which I then reported to eBay and Paypal who took them down, RoFL.
@ 15: Spammers are sophisticated, they can setup a fake email redirect, so when you “try” to reply to their message, the message will be sent to a non-existent email address and you’ll get that post-master email saying that it couldn’t send the message, there are also other ways that work too.
omg some people dont know how spam are sent lol.
the solution for spam is easy, it has been talked about before. a change in protocol is the only needed thing.
but unfortunately that is not gonna happen anytime soon. a lot of people make money from spam (spammers and anti-spammers). and that is the reason why it wont stop.
Glad symantec does nothing but report about it, until its too late. what a lousy AV! NOD32 all the way!
true. if the IPSs were just as happy to torture spammers just they do with torrent users, then and onjly then would this work.
Supply and demand. Revoke Internet rights of those idiots who buy that stuff and click on the links.
You can’t just reply to a spam email an think you’re sticking it up em.
Spammers use innocent peoples email accounts or fake aliases to send out their crap.
So replying or signing the address up for porn newsletters is pretty much becoming a spammer yourself.
ok.. so heres the thing, 72% is spam.. i got home from work yesterday, there was 2 bills, one late reminder, asda specials, tesco specials, BT, sky, and 3 other stupid catalog thingys in my mail box.. thats 70% spam!! and that is spam i have to put in my bin and take downstairs..