Spam Soars to 95% of E-Mails Sent
The number of spam mails sent during the first quarter this year broke all records after a series of hacker attacks left the personal information of hundreds of thousands exposed.
The computer security firm Jiransoft on Sunday said a sample survey of customers revealed that spam mails accounted for 94.5 percent of e-mails sent from January to March, the highest percentage since the company started the survey in 2005.
According to Jiransoft, the proportion of spam mails has gone up every year, from 86.8 percent in 2005 to 92.63 percent in 2007. Sixty percent of spam is about pornography, followed by general advertising and credit loans.
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The steep increase in spam mails is due to the inefficiency of toady's spam filters. Spammers are finding new ways to send spam mails and spam filters are failed to block those spam mails because of their out dated technology. I read an article about a new technology called ReceiverNet from Abaca. . ReceiverNet technology characterizes each protected user based on the percentage of spam they receive and then uses those reputations to rate the incoming message flow. Download the Osterman Research white paper from this link http://abaca.com/downloads/A%20New%20Approach%20to%20Defeating%20Spam.pdf for more information
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