SpamAnti.net in July 2009

News of the SPAM world

Risks of infection

Computers taht have been infected by a botnet are usually enslaved to support swindling activities starting at sending SPAM messages and following into phishing attempts to steal personal information. But there are also some very immediate risks, like some people learned recently (the hard way). About 100,000 PC infected by Zeus/Zbot had a bad experience in April 2009: The master of this botnet merely crashed all of his victims computers (probably after using them to collect confidential financial data like secret codes and bank web site passwords).

Source: ArsTechnica.

80% of SPAM comes from botnets

While we are on it, the botnets contributed to the pollution of our mail boxes at the level of 80% during the month of June 2009.

A major surge from the previous figures.

Source: ArsTechnica.

12% of users tried to buy stuff from SPAM

We now know for sure why we receive so many millions of SPAM messages in our mailbox: Because it works.

A study from MAAWG shows that Internet users are not only half dumb, but totally interested in what SPAM promotes. 12% of them admit that they tried to buy a product discovered thanks to SPAM.

Does this mean that 12% are not satisfied with their sexual aptitude?

Source: Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG).

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