09 Nov 2006
What's With All This Spam?

SPAMI know it's gotten bad around here: yesterday I was acutely aware of it as I had to shut off my filters while getting the new system tweaked and running. Overall I logged better than a thousand SPAM's.

Lot's of them were the "image" format that this article discusses, but the majority were the same old drivel that's been hitting us for years. And as far as I can tell, there's no end in sight...

...[the] assumption is this spike in spam levels is a result of a new generation of viruses and zombies that can infect PCs more quickly and are harder to get rid of. In its October report, messaging security vendor MessageLabs says the spike is largely due to two Trojan programs, Warezov and SpamThru. Others say a new breed of spam messages called image spam -- messages with text embedded in an image file that evade spam filters, which can't recognize the words inside the image -- is responsible.

(link) [Network World]

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