AOL Spam Down 75 Pct; Net Spam Trends Reverse
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You've got less spam, according to  America Online, the world's largest online service.
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As image spam declines, a new type of pest takes its place.
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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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"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, the world's largest Internet service provider, believes spammers are starting to give up _ at least when it comes to sending junk to its subscribers.
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AOL is announcing a major victory in the fight against spam. According to America Online&#39;s member spam reports, the ISP achieved a 75% decline in junk e-mail sent to its members in 2004.
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(InfoWorld) - E-mail worms, not long ago the scourge of the Internet, have declined sharply in 2007, a security company has revealed. According to UTM security vendor Fortinet, the incidence of mass-mailing worms has declined by 5 percent each month since the start of the year, putting the once-feared worm well below other types of attack in terms of volume. The figures come from the company's The State of Malware report for June 2007. Viruses, spyware, and software exploits have remained roughly stable in volume throughout the same period, while Trojans have been climbing since February to represent the number one threat. Much less common mobile, IM, Linux, and non-mailed Win32 worms have all shown marked declines, albeit from relatively low levels. The company offers a variety of explanations for the marked decline. Users are now more aware of the need to mistrust e-mailed attachments, while corporates are employing better gateway security to strip e-mails of malicious code. Another possibility is that attackers might be moving from mass-mailing techniques to targeted attacks as a better avenue to profit. This theory is backed up by separate figures from MessageLabs published earlier this week that uncovered evidence of attacksÂ targeting named individuals in companies.Â Although rare by their nature, such attacks are reckoned to have a much higher chance of success than generic mass-mailing attacks. The age of the mass-mailing worms is not about to end, however, and could simply have entered a period during which it will decline to low levels before spiking from time to time. The best recent example of this isÂ the Storm wormÂ of January, which presented a high point against which worm volumes were bound to decline as the year wore on. The unique danger of worms is their ability to spread automatically in ways that can clog bandwidth before systems can react. Because worm detection systems are now so finely tuned, such malware has to do as much of its damage in possible within the first hour of spread, after which it will be filtered aggressively by security gateways. The worm's future could increasingly be as a form of malevolent political or terrorist protest rather than as a tool of criminal profit.
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By Dan Heckel, Messenger-Inquirer, Owensboro, Ky.  Feb. 26--The e-mails I get on my office computer break down like this: 50 percent are ones I need to read and 49.99999 percent of them are spam I don't need.
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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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Worried about spyware? spam? "spim"? AOL wants to set your mind at rest. Also: Putting patches in place.
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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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AOL believes spammers are starting to give up - at least when it comes to sending junk to its subscribers. The total number of spam complaints from AOL members fell more than 75% last month.
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Pr0n pwned Spam messages punting pornographic websites dropped in frequency to reach an all time low last month.â¦
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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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A technological weapon against unwanted &#39;&#39;spam&quot; e-mails that has been embraced by leading Internet companies doesn&#39;t work as well as its developers had hoped, according to a new study.
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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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Challenge/response e-mails accidentally marked as spam by AOL and EarthLink.