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Spammers not giving up
FrontBridge, an email security firm, has reported a significant spike in the amount of junk mail that is being sent out. The company fears that spammers are starting to get even more organised and that they are starting to launch larger and larger assaults on Web users. As if it couldn't get any worse...
[blockquote]This mid-October surge in spam activity could mean that some of the most determined and active spammers have added many more email addresses to the lists that they use when sending their unsolicited emails.
Other experts, though, believe that the anti-spam industry should be able to combat the threat.
"We often see spikes in the spam load that last a few days. This may be attributed to one such spike," Matt Sergeant, senior anti-spam technologist at Messagelabs, told ZDNet UK. "Generally these do not last, as it is very difficult to sustain these kind of attack levels without getting noticed. The general trend for spam, though, is definitely on the up, with our latest figures showing that 50.5 percent of all email is now spam."
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[blockquote]This mid-October surge in spam activity could mean that some of the most determined and active spammers have added many more email addresses to the lists that they use when sending their unsolicited emails.
Other experts, though, believe that the anti-spam industry should be able to combat the threat.
"We often see spikes in the spam load that last a few days. This may be attributed to one such spike," Matt Sergeant, senior anti-spam technologist at Messagelabs, told ZDNet UK. "Generally these do not last, as it is very difficult to sustain these kind of attack levels without getting noticed. The general trend for spam, though, is definitely on the up, with our latest figures showing that 50.5 percent of all email is now spam."
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