Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Spam Back to 94% of All E-Mail

From New York Times Blog
Spam, that annoying but ignorable scourge of the Web, has finally recovered from the jolt it received last November, when Internet backbone providers cut off McColo Corporation, a California Web-hosting service that spammers were using to coordinate e-mail attacks.

The average seven-day spam volume during the latter half of March is now at roughly the same levels as October of last year — around 94 percent of all e-mail — according to the antispam company Postini, a division of Google.

With the expectation that the Conficker botnet will be going live today I guess that this ratio is only going to get worse...

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