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FYI…
- http://www.informationweek.com/shared/prin…cleID=196602463
Dec. 7, 2006
"The torrent in spam that started in October may slow slightly after the first of the year, but users should expect more junk mail than ever in 2007, a messaging security company predicted Thursday. Spam volume is up 73% in the last three months, Postini* reported, thanks to a one-two-three punch of a huge increase in the number of spam botnets and a major jump in the use of both image- and document-based spam. For the year, spam quantity is up 143%… According to Postini's data, image- and document-based spam—the latter is when a junk mailer tucks the marketing message inside a document attached to a message—accounted for as much as 45% of all spam in the fourth quarter, up from less than 2% a year ago… Millions of PCs, the majority of them machines in non-business settings, have been hijacked and forced to send spam by a new wave of malware, including the prolific Stration (aka Warezov) line, which first made an impression on security vendors in October…"
* http://www.postini.com/news_events/pr/pr120606.php
- http://www.networkworld.com/news/2006/1207…he-year-in.html
12/06/06
"…Bill Gates predicted two years ago that spam would be gone by 2006. He should check his in-box…"
- http://www.informationweek.com/shared/prin…cleID=196602463
Dec. 7, 2006
"The torrent in spam that started in October may slow slightly after the first of the year, but users should expect more junk mail than ever in 2007, a messaging security company predicted Thursday. Spam volume is up 73% in the last three months, Postini* reported, thanks to a one-two-three punch of a huge increase in the number of spam botnets and a major jump in the use of both image- and document-based spam. For the year, spam quantity is up 143%… According to Postini's data, image- and document-based spam—the latter is when a junk mailer tucks the marketing message inside a document attached to a message—accounted for as much as 45% of all spam in the fourth quarter, up from less than 2% a year ago… Millions of PCs, the majority of them machines in non-business settings, have been hijacked and forced to send spam by a new wave of malware, including the prolific Stration (aka Warezov) line, which first made an impression on security vendors in October…"
* http://www.postini.com/news_events/pr/pr120606.php
- http://www.networkworld.com/news/2006/1207…he-year-in.html
12/06/06
"…Bill Gates predicted two years ago that spam would be gone by 2006. He should check his in-box…"