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Archive for the 'Spam' Category
Microsoft: 3% of email is stuff we want the rest is spam
Closed Published April 11th, 2009 in Browser Security, Spam, emailSpam makes up close to 100 percent of all e-mail traffic on the Internet, according to Microsoft. In a new security report, Microsoft said that 97 percent of e-mails sent were destined for the junk folder, though most never made it to their destinations thanks to server-side filtering.
Spam slightly lower in February, but botnets still lurking
Closed Published March 3rd, 2009 in Browser Security, Malware, Spam, emailSpam is an annoying but constant reality for e-mail users, and February did little to change that fact. According to the latest malware report from MessageLabs Intelligence, the beginning of the month saw a spike in spam—it reached as much as 79.5 percent of e-mail traffic—before settling down to an average of 73.3 percent for [...]
Block spam, phishing attempts in Outlook
Closed Published March 26th, 2008 in Browser Security, Exploits & Vulnerabilities, Phishing, SpamThe battle for your in-box shows no signs of waning. Despite the efforts of software companies large and small, spammers and phishers continue to find and exploit weaknesses in junk-mail filters at the server and client levels.
Spammers Turn the Tables Again
Closed Published October 24th, 2006 in All Categories, Malware, Security, SpamThis botnet means business: A spam trojan in the wild is using pirated antivirus software to clean the bots it infects to ensure it has plenty of their CPU resources to send out its spam messages.
The so-called SpamThru trojan also uses other sophisticated techniques such as encrypting the spam message templates it sends to the [...]
