Comments on: Report: Antispam push helping curb U.S. junk mail

The United States is still the greatest source of spam, but tougher laws and other measures are helping stem the tide, Sophos says.

[invisibunny]

How to stop 99% of SPAM

There is a better method to stopping spam that no one has started yet. Fine the businesses that are using spam to advertise. They know how their products are being marketed. What business doesn't keep track of their budget. If something's missing - then they can have fun with the IRS. If you make the businesses stop their support of illeagal marketing tactics, the spammers wouldn't have any income to continue their activities.

[invisibunny]

How to stop 99% of SPAM

There is a better method to stopping spam that no one has started yet. Fine the businesses that are using spam to advertise. They know how their products are being marketed. What business doesn't keep track of their budget. If something's missing - then they can have fun with the IRS. If you make the businesses stop their support of illeagal marketing tactics, the spammers wouldn't have any income to continue their activities.

[cyborgsam--2008]

Glad someone's seeing less spam...

I keep track of mine & graph it, there has been an increasing trend
since late August/early September.

[TheReaperD]

SPAM overall on the rise

I work for one of the few remaining local ISPs and our spam intake has increased sharply over the past few months. I can't give you a break down by country as that is really hard to determine but, spam makes up 98.8% of the total incoming email for our customers. That's the percentage that the spam filter catches. I know, for a fact, that it doesn't get all of it so, the number is actually higher.

We do our best to try and minimalize the impact to our customers but, we get very little support from other sources. The quantity is so overwhelming that it threatens our mail servers on a regular basis. Every time an army of zombie computers does a dictionary attack on our server, it backs up for 6 hours while it tries to sort through all of it.

It's a nightmare.

[cyborgsam--2008]

Glad someone's seeing less spam...

I keep track of mine & graph it, there has been an increasing trend
since late August/early September.

[TheReaperD]

SPAM overall on the rise

I work for one of the few remaining local ISPs and our spam intake has increased sharply over the past few months. I can't give you a break down by country as that is really hard to determine but, spam makes up 98.8% of the total incoming email for our customers. That's the percentage that the spam filter catches. I know, for a fact, that it doesn't get all of it so, the number is actually higher.

We do our best to try and minimalize the impact to our customers but, we get very little support from other sources. The quantity is so overwhelming that it threatens our mail servers on a regular basis. Every time an army of zombie computers does a dictionary attack on our server, it backs up for 6 hours while it tries to sort through all of it.

It's a nightmare.

[jedibratt]

How to stop 100% of SPAM

DONT OPEN OR CARE ABOUT EMAIL THAT YOU KNOW ISN'T GENUINE!!!!JESUS!!!!Thank you Joe average AOL computer user for being so incompetent and scared with computers. These are the same people that think that if they press the "wrong button", tehier computer will explode.=)

[jedibratt]

How to stop 100% of SPAM

DONT OPEN OR CARE ABOUT EMAIL THAT YOU KNOW ISN'T GENUINE!!!!JESUS!!!!Thank you Joe average AOL computer user for being so incompetent and scared with computers. These are the same people that think that if they press the "wrong button", tehier computer will explode.=)

[jedibratt]

Spyware, trojans, worms, viruses, adware....

ARE THE REAL PROBLEM. The average Joe doesn't know this. Hello Joe!!

[jedibratt]

Spyware, trojans, worms, viruses, adware....

ARE THE REAL PROBLEM. The average Joe doesn't know this. Hello Joe!!

Kudos to M$

Their spam filter in Outlook is cutting out about 90% of the spam.

But when I look at the spam folder - it's almost all in Spanish or Portugese. I'm guessing it's coming frm Central & South America.

BTW - an old email address I used to use from about 1998 onwards, I have retained it (unused for about 3 years) and the email has almost totally dried up - might recover the adress & start using it again :-)

Kudos to M$

Their spam filter in Outlook is cutting out about 90% of the spam.

But when I look at the spam folder - it's almost all in Spanish or Portugese. I'm guessing it's coming frm Central & South America.

BTW - an old email address I used to use from about 1998 onwards, I have retained it (unused for about 3 years) and the email has almost totally dried up - might recover the adress & start using it again :-)