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Sabtu, 17 April 2010

Google: Email Spam Declining Slowly


SAN FRANCISCO - The volume of spam in the virtual world slowly begins to experience predicted a decrease in the count per quarter, although when compared to last year, the figure is still rising.

"In the first quarter of this year 2010, spam volume was lower than the last quarter of 2009. However, when compared to the same quarter last year, volumes increased approximately 6 percent."

From these data, the contribution of the largest spam comes from email spam viruses masquerade, the rampant spread by spammers in the second quarter of 2009. Email bervirus has a 0.3 per cent of the overall percentage of spam that is the first quarter of 2009. But these numbers then it jumped to 3.7 percent in the second quarter of 2009. Although then came back down approximately 1.1 percent in the first quarter of 2010, these figures nonetheless still 12 times more than the first quarter last year.

This March, Google also estimates the increase in spam sent to capacity. Spam-spam that are distributed on average have a memory capacity of 30 per cent heavier than the last. This is because most of the spam emails include pictures of no importance to attract victims.

"Spammers are expected to use the way of promotion of new models that will make it easier and faster to pull the victim, like a plug and play components commonly used spammers," said Senior Product Marketing Manager for the Google Postini Adam Swidler.

The data were also found, subject to spam email still does not change much, ie cheap drugs, celebrity gossip, breaking news, and the tragedy of natural disasters. In January, spammers also use the lure of donations from the earthquake on behalf of Haiti to profiteer name of foundation donations, politicians and celebrities.

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