New email monitoring data has revealed a "sudden" 30 per cent reduction in global spam volumes over the past week. Security firm SoftScan believes that the drop is most likely to be the result of a major botnet temporarily losing control of its clients. Another theory is that the reduction in spam might be attributed to the recent earthquake in Asia, preventing spamming activity from this region. However, this is considered to be less likely as the drop in spam distribution was not instant.
SoftScan also suggested that a large number of users received new computers at Christmas to replace infected machines, but since this trend has not been seen in previous years, it too seems unlikely. Spam levels for December remained very high at 89.36 per cent of all email and even at their lowest point on 21 December the level was still 84.95 per cent.
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SoftScan also suggested that a large number of users received new computers at Christmas to replace infected machines, but since this trend has not been seen in previous years, it too seems unlikely. Spam levels for December remained very high at 89.36 per cent of all email and even at their lowest point on 21 December the level was still 84.95 per cent.
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By pages of 50 messages
Dec 9th-13th: 50 messages in 4 days
Dec 13th-17th: 50 messages in 4 days
Dec 17th-21st: 50 messages in 4 days
Dec 21st-27th: 50 messages in 6 days
Dec 27th-Jan 3rd: 50 messages in 7 days
Jan 3rd-10th (today): 50 messages in 7 days
I guess this is what they mean by "global". Not every individual user sees the reduction. Just overall around the world there is less.
The low numbers continued until about 2 days ago when its starting to gathering back steam(back up to 400 some odd).
Hopefully its not going to get back to like it was around christmas, where we got 1,700 a day.
Someone correct me if I am wrong, but Gmail doesn't automatically "drop" incoming emails it thinks is spam, but just tucks it away (and purges that folder of contents that exceed a certain age point). So it should provide an accurate count of spam emails received on that account.
who buys a new pc because it has spyware on it?
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