Spam Hits 95% of All Email 270
An anonymous reader writes "Commtouch released its Email Threats Trend Report based on the automated analysis of billions of email messages weekly. The report examines the appearance of new kinds of attachment spamsuch as PDF spam and Excel spam together with the decline of image spam, as well as the growing threat of innocent appearing spam containing links to malicious web sites. Image spam declined to a level of less than 5% of all spam, down from 30% in the first quarter of 2007; also, image pump-and-dump spam has all but disappeared, with pornographic images taking its place."
My spam is still lame :-P (Score:5, Funny)
Huh? Where? Man, all I ever get are stupid Viagra spam and "O3M S0FTWARE!" (and variants thereupon).
Humpfh. Everyone gets pr0n spam but me.
Dan Aris
Re:Summary only link (Score:0, Funny)
don't open the fi
HAHAHAHA DISREGARD THAT.
I SUCK DICKS.
Mine is full of spam... (Score:3, Funny)
Most of the subjects are as follows:(filtered for privacy)
Courses next term
[Course name here] Grades
IMPORTANT: Calculus Final Exam Time
Hello from [Relative name here]
[Subscribe newsletter here]
Funny pictures
Why wont it stop?
Re:My spam is still lame :-P (Score:5, Funny)
Re:SPAM @ 95%?! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:My spam is still lame :-P (Score:5, Funny)
Re:My spam is still lame :-P (Score:5, Funny)
Do you recognise the canine? Then yes, that's bad.
Re:SPAM @ 95%?! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:My spam is still lame :-P (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Summary only link (Score:3, Funny)
I dunno....I thought "pump-and-dump" was another word for "pornographic images"....
Re:Email is dead, long live Email (Score:3, Funny)
It will never work. Considering the trash in my brain, I must conclude that it has already been done, and it has already been compromised.
Re:call me a cynic, but (Score:3, Funny)
Well, let's assume I am, shall we?
In that case, explain the existence of the site I faux-quoted and its ilk.
Methinks that if I was indeed kidding, there would not exist the market which this class of business caters to. (Or, for that matter, the porn/prostitution/yadayadayada classes of business.) However, since they do exist, we can deduce that the market that they are addressing does indeed exist, and it would appear to further be a reasonable assumption that if people could undercut 95% inefficiency on a consistent basis, then that market would not exist. But it does. So, I am not kidding. QED.