AOL reports 75-percent slump in spam
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America Online said it had cut spam on its service for the first time in five years, slashing the annoying email advertisements in 2004 by 75 percent.
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Spam reports from America Online members dropped from a daily average of almost 11 million in November 2003 to a daily average of about 2.2 million last month, the company said this week.
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A survey conducted by internet service provider America Online (AOL) found that 20% of home computers were infected by a virus or worm, and that various forms of snooping programs such as spyware and adware are on 80% of systems.
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The world&#39;s largest online service reported junk e-mail declined by more than 75% this year. NEW YORK  - You&#39;ve got less spam, according to America Online, the world&#39;s largest online service.
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Botnets helped keep spam output at consistently high levels last year, and global spam reached rates as high as 96% of all e-mail traffic during 2007.
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The nation's first law aimed at curtailing junk e-mail earned a mixed report card after a year on the books as few spammers faced legal action and recent surveys showed that spam makes up an even larger proportion of online messages. -washingtonpost.com
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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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AOL is doing a decent job tackling spam, but it's also doing some spin doctoring in the process.
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Russian teens fingered as likely suspects A recent upsurge in Storm Worm activity was accompanied by a spike in spam levels 48 hours later, according to an analysis by managed security services firm MessageLabs.â¦
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(InfoWorld) - Adam Vitale pled guilty Monday to sending unsolicited e-mail to 1.2 million AOL LLC subscribers, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Michael J. Garcia said. Vitale and co-defendant Todd Moeller, were in contact with a government confidential informant via instant messaging, and agreed to send spam advertisements for a product in exchange for half of the profits, Garcia said in a statement. The pair then sent about 1.2 million unsolicited e-mails to AOL users between August 17 and August 23, 2005. They changed the headers on the e-mails and used various computers to conceal the source of the spam. Vitale, 26, resides in Brooklyn. Sentencing is scheduled for September 13 before U.S. District Judge Denny Chin, who presided over the criminal case, in Manhattan. He faces a maximum sentence of 11 years in prison and a fine of US$250,000 or double the maximum gain or loss resulting from the offense. Moeller, a New Jersey resident, will stand trial for the same charges. One observer felt the legal victory was somewhat hollow. "I think this is a moral victory for AOL, but not much else," said Adam O'Donnell, director of emerging technologies at Cloudmark Inc. "The economic motivations underlying abuse mean some other spammer has already taken his place, and it is likely the spammer's replacement is coming from outside American jurisdiction." Â
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America Online disses Microsoft's SenderID.
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Just when experts thought the spam tide was receding, it did what tides will do. The problem's worse than ever, and image-based attacks using artificial intelligence are to blame.
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Aggressive spam blasts against specific domains disrupt small and midsize businesses.
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Internet service AOL said on Thursday  it had resolved a software problem that delayed the  transmission of millions of e-mails since the late morning.
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Spam mail has become one of the biggest problems on the Internet; it consumes precious bandwidth, wastes computer resources, and causes huge financial losses to corporations.
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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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It might be too early to celebrate, but according to Symantec&#39;s numbers, the rate of increase of internet spam is easing a bit.