AOL Members Report Significantly Less Spam in 2004
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Internet service provider also says amount of spam blocked at e-mail gateway is down significantly.
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Microsoft resurrected its anti-spam Sender ID proposal this week by making changes to appease some critics, and immediately won over one of its biggest detractors: American Online (AOL).
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Spam messages are increasingly plaguing e-mail inboxes, but more Internet users are accepting them as a fact of life, a new study has found.
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(InfoWorld) - Pornographic spam dropped to an all-time low in February, as spammers concentrated on health-related products and other general product pitches, according to a report from vendor Symantec Corp. And similar to software, spam is also increasingly being localized. The Symantec report on spam also said that there was a rise in gambling-related spam in German, Italian and French, while previously it was only mostly in English. Symantec drew the conclusions from its own data, as do many security vendors that publish trend reports based on their own monitoring methods. Pornographic spam comprised just 3 percent of the total amount of spam last month, the lowest figure ever recorded, Symantec said. Overall, about 70 percent of the e-mail messages monitored by Symantec were spam, half of which originated from computers in North America. Improvements in blocking and filtering methods have driven spammers to use new techniques to get into inboxes. Some 38 percent of the spam sent in February used images in messages, which makes it more difficult for security software. Messages appear to be more unique, allowing them to bypass a filter. Spammers also are using text slanted at upward or downward angles. The method hampers optical character recognition technology, which tries to read the text within images, Symantec said. Â
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"Offensive" or "inappropriate" spam has been steadily declining, and in February only constituted 3 percent of junk mail, Symantec says.
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At least one new variant of a worm spread rapidly from Asia and Europe to US computers, filling up people&#39;s email accounts, but otherwise causing little apparent damage.
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The United States is in a league of its own when it comes to sending junk mail to e-mail users. Researchers at security software company Sophos found that 42 percent of all spam sent this year came from the
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DECEMBER 29, 2004 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - America Online Inc. has declared 2004 a &quot;banner year&quot; in its fight against spam. Spam reports from AOL&#39;s members fell from a daily average of almost 11 million in November
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The majority of spam mailings received around the world originate from the United States according to software company Sophos. In order to compile their list, company researchers monitored all spam messages that were sent to their network during 2004.
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Nearly a year after its passage, the federal Can-Spam law has done little to curb spam, according to a year-end report due Monday.
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According to a new report by Deborah Fallows at the Pew Internet & American Life Project, the percentage of people who think that spam is increasing has risen steadily. Nonetheless, the Pew report also found that spam is less bothersome to e-mail users than it once was.
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NEW YORK-December 28, 2004 - AOL says it looks like some spammers are starting to throw in the cyber towel. The world&#39;s largest Internet service provider says that the number of attempted e-mails was down
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Spam: Death By A Million Paper Cuts  The organization I work for receives 19-20 UCEs (Unsolicited Commercial Email) per second, 1.7-2 million potential UCEs per day, 11.7 million UCEs per week. I only have 13,000 email users. These users were desperate and email for many was unusable. Me and another co-worker had 3 months to implement a plan to get rid of most of it. I had to document every step we took and I had one shot to accomplish this. At the end of that time it had to work and it had to be noticeable.    I am not an expert on spam. However, I have learned many things about UCEs and what can be done to fight it and how to adjust to UCEs' dynamic nature.
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A year after the U.S. Congress passed the first federal antispam law, observers see no evidence that it has cut the amount of unwanted commercial e-mail arriving in U.S. residents' inboxes.
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AOL has taken a step back from an earlier stance and agreed to support the Microsoft-backed anti-spam technology Sender ID. The reconsideration followed Microsoft&#39;s retooling of the technology
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For spammers, it&#39;s been a summer of love. Two newly issued reports tracking the circulation of unsolicited e-mails say pornographic spam dominated this summer, nearly all of it originating from Internet addresses in North America.
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NEW YORK - Porn ads slipped down the list of top junk e-mails in 2004, replaced by those hawking online Vioxx prescriptions, ID theft scams and stock pick information, America Online said.