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Symantec Releases May Spam Report
Symantec reports back from the war of spam with numbers and stories.
Symantec has released its May 2007 report on " The State of Spam ."
The report includes news and data from the company's ongoing monitoring of vast amounts of e-mail. Here are some of the highlights of the report:
-- The overall percentage of e-mail that is spam might be trickling down a bit over the long term, but was basically the same as last month at about 65 percent.
-- The percentage of e-mail that is image spam went down quite a bit, from 37 percet to 27 percent, but this number has a history of wild fluctuation.
-- A new form of spam disparages specific companies. Why?
-- Spammers are using image upload services to try to avoid detection.
-- A new type of 419 scam involves (this is a lie of course) soldiers in Iraq.
Copyright 2007 by Ziff Davis Media, Distributed by United Press International
The report includes news and data from the company's ongoing monitoring of vast amounts of e-mail. Here are some of the highlights of the report:
-- The overall percentage of e-mail that is spam might be trickling down a bit over the long term, but was basically the same as last month at about 65 percent.
-- The percentage of e-mail that is image spam went down quite a bit, from 37 percet to 27 percent, but this number has a history of wild fluctuation.
-- A new form of spam disparages specific companies. Why?
-- Spammers are using image upload services to try to avoid detection.
-- A new type of 419 scam involves (this is a lie of course) soldiers in Iraq.
Copyright 2007 by Ziff Davis Media, Distributed by United Press International
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