Youâve got spam! US tops the list
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The United States is still the country where the most number of spams originate, almost 42 per cent, says a report by security solutions company Sophos.
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In a Feb. 7 story about cellular "spam," The Associated Press erroneously described a list published by the Federal Communications Commission aimed at stopping unwanted commercial e-mail and text messages sent to cell phones. It is a list of domain names to which telemarketers may not send e-mail without permission from cell phone subscribers, not listings of the Web sites that transmit unwanted data.
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You've got less spam, according to  America Online, the world's largest online service.
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Lycos Europe has released a special screensaver for Windows and the Mac OS platforms that will attack spam web pages. The screensaver âMake Love No Spamâ will overload a variety of spam servers by flooding
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Some spammers are getting their messages through using techniques designed to spot and stop them. A survey shows that spammers are the biggest users of a technique designed to find out if e-mail comes from the net address it says it does.
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Get read for a new kind of unsolicited junk email: audio spam.
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New software allows recipients of spam to band together to target known websites behind the messages. The idea is to bombard the sites with messages, slowing them down and making them more expensive to run.
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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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According to Microsoft&#39;s Chief Executive, Steve Ballmer, Bill Gates is number one in the amount of spam a person gets. According to the Microsoft CEO, Gates gets over four million messages a day, most of which are junk.
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The United States is responsible for exporting 42.11 per cent of all spams globally, thus becoming the country where the most number of spams originate, according to a report by security solutions company Sophos.
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The United States was the 800-pound spam-spewing gorilla throughout 2004, a spot it held from wire to wire throughout the year, an anti-virus firm announced Monday.
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Despite government and industry efforts to stop spam, the US remains the world&#39;s largest source of unwanted e-mail, which now represents some 90 percent of all Web traffic.
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New round of 'family member' greeting-card spam tricks recipients into visiting malicious Web sites.
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AOL released its second annual top 10 spam terms yesterday, listing the subject lines of the most popular junk e-mails. The Dulles-based company said the number of spams sent to users  was down from 2.4 billion in 2003 to 1.2 billion this year. -The Washington Post
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If you didn&#39;t think anybody else could possibly get any more spam than you, then think of Bill Gates. The Microsoft Corp. chairman receives 4 million pieces of e-mail per day, most of it junk, said Steve Ballmer, the company&#39;s chief executive.
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Sodom and Gomorrah for the information age Mother Nature may be hitting back at the scourge of spam-filled inboxes, according to IE Internet.â¦
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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.