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Symantec: 72% of Email was Spam in November

Slimy   on 16 December 2007 - 01:28 · 9 comments & 6075 views

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According to Symantec’s December State of Spam Report, which took 450 million inboxes worldwide into consideration, 72% of November emails were spam. Spammers and anti-spam programs fought hard in the ongoing battle of what gets to the user’s inbox. Throughout November, spammers employed tactics such as: Thanksgiving holiday captions in subject lines, advertisements of replica products, mass e-mail address collection using an animated snowball .gif image, “free” gift-cards from well-known companies, and seasonal lotto scams. Companies behind anti-spam products released updated versions of their products, shared information between each other, and once again employed more advanced filtering techniques.

View: December 2007 State of Spam Report (PDF)

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#1 joker999 on 16 Dec 2007 - 01:52
Never stop eh?
#2 Neoauld on 16 Dec 2007 - 03:24
i find that hard to believe
since norton cant even catch 15% of viruses
(1 reply) #3 Tha Bloo Monkee on 16 Dec 2007 - 05:05
Wasn't there JUST a report about "95% spam"? How many articles are going to be posted?

I hate spam.
#3.1 NXTwoThou on 16 Dec 2007 - 14:23
It depends on what end of the filters you are on. IP based filters at my work end up blocking 20% of incoming connections, but the text filters identify 76% of incoming mail as spam.
(3 replies) #4 internetworld7 on 16 Dec 2007 - 08:52
One "Study" by another company just reported that 95% of all email is spam. I found that one a little hard to believe. But it wouldn't matter if 99.9% of all email was spam, spam just can't get past the super powerful filters in Mail on a Mac. I'm not trolling, just stating real facts.
#4.1 ]SK[ on 16 Dec 2007 - 12:56
Outlook 2003/2007's filters are very good imo.
#4.2 kiddingguy on 16 Dec 2007 - 23:42
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SK[ said,#4.1]Outlook 2003/2007's filters are very good imo.


Yeah, you're right. It's very good!

What's kinda funny is that first OL2007 detects spam and than it's placed in McAfee's Junk-folder.
Which means that when I open up OL2007junkmail folder... it's empty!
#4.3 C_Guy on 17 Dec 2007 - 16:35
Super powerful? That must be the "Wow" factor!

As in "wow", here's yet another person fallen victim to the idea that Macs are invincible.

Opinion is not fact. You are stating real opinions not facts.

No spam filter is 100%, not even your magic Mac. That, my friend, is fact.
#5 C_Guy on 17 Dec 2007 - 16:35
I wonder if Symantec's reports are any more reliable than it's anti-virus software.

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