Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Spam is becoming less?

According to Kaspersky Labs published on the site of the company, in November 2008, the proportion of spam emails in the overall mail traffic Runet is 73,7%. This figure is slightly lower than the October rate - 79,9%.

True, too early to rejoice - decreased activity spammers network security specialists associated with the liquidation of the American company McColo, hosting provider, which is the largest center in the world of sending spam.

Following the closure of the company hackers took only two weeks to correct the situation - at the moment, spammers are not less active than before the closure McColo.

This is evident even on the fact that the number of emails containing viruses, Trojans and various kinds in the past month has increased slightly compared to October, reaching a figure of 2.28% of the total mail traffic.