Give the magic: HP dv5tAn extra helping of spam, anyone?
If you're feeling swamped in unsolicited e-mail, you're not alone. Enterprise security vendor Secure Computing this week reported spam increases 53 percent above July's daily average and 70 percent above June's average. That's not, however, a record. The current level of spam is equivalent to those reported during December 2006.
Reasons for the August bump in spam are varied. One, there's been a resurgence of the Storm worm, which is known to relay spam.
Two, enterprise security companies are seeing a higher level of attachment-based spam. In addition to the usual suspects of PDF and Excel attachments, security vendor McAfee reports the first sighting of FDF-based spam. FDF is the format used by Adobe to export data from PDF form fields.
Finally, U.K. antivirus vendor Sophos reported last week seeing an increase in what are called pump-and-dump stock scams. The latest victim, Prime Time Group, which has interests in the retail oil and gas, convenience stores and automotive services, has opened a Non Objecting Beneficial Owners list (NOBO list) investigation in an attempt to find the parties responsible.
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One of the lines in that article says that people are not as anonymous on the internet as they might believe they are.
The people bringing suit are sparing no expense to find the real identity of the "virtual thief".
Excuse me? All these years and millions of dollars spent, and governments STILL have not shut down the "Spam Artists", but some guy selling sex software can hire a lawer to find the identity of another user on Second Life.
What is going on here? I'm as sick of spam as everyone else is, but I find it incredible that the authorities cannot find and shut down the spam distributers.
Now it's actually increasing? What's wrong with this picture?
They have a new technology that works with channels, filters will never solve the problem.
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Personally, I won't be happy until every single spammer and junk e-mailer gives up and finds something else to do.
Thanks for reading, and we hope to see your name among our rapidly growing user rolls very soon.
Sincerely,
Robert Moskowitz
VP, Communications.
Enterto.com
E-mail: ano-7744a717@enterto.com
It's been said before...ISPs could monitor the quantity of Port 25 traffic coming from these machines, and if it exceeds 100 an hour...shut down the port and warn the owner that they have to do something about it before they're allowed to send mail traffic.
But, I'm sure the big anti-spam folks lobby very hard against this kind of tactic.
Pedestrian users WILL NOT go on the offensive because they are not willing to understand what's happening to their unprotected public-facing PCs sitting in the bedroom...
And they WON'T buy Macs because they don't understand what they are either...so no "sticks and stones can't break my Mac" comments.