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%.
"It's a triple threat, a perfect storm," says Dan Druker, a Postini executive VP. "Spammers are using much more difficult [to stop] techniques than in the past, and the botnets are much bigger." Some days in November, Postini, which offers enterprises managed antispam services, counted a million different IP addresses bound to incoming junk mail.
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"It's a triple threat, a perfect storm," says Dan Druker, a Postini executive VP. "Spammers are using much more difficult [to stop] techniques than in the past, and the botnets are much bigger." Some days in November, Postini, which offers enterprises managed antispam services, counted a million different IP addresses bound to incoming junk mail.
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Maybe we need some kind of secure whitelist system or something.
A lot of people's computers are getting infected with hijackers which zombify the machine. When the system is connected to the internet, it sends out emails undetected. I get a lot every day from those systems.
Although, it is not just them to blame, it is also the people who fall for the schemes and buy the wonder drugs and stocks etc...
It used to be funny, but now it is just plain annoying.
Thankfully Gmail seems to catch 99% of it, which gets my kudos and keeps me happy, but still something needs to be done. They keep on about throttling P2P traffic, but the amount of junkmail floating around and trojan'd machines acting as relays has got to be sucking up the net's bandwidth pretty badly too even if it is just a small emails.
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