| SpringSips has seen a tremendous surge in all things spam and virus related, just like everyone else - hey, we get e-mail too. When folks complained about getting 5 to 10 spam e-mails, we politely listened and giggled as we deleted our 40 to 50 a day. We cranked up the filters harder, responded to the latest attacks, blocked most e-mail traffic from China and girded our loins for the next assault. Oy, the time and money we've spent!
Yep, that's what's happening with spam. Scary huh? Click on the image for the actual sized graph.
Weekly SPAM trends here. Poke around this site for other good information:
http://tqmcube.com/tide.php
Showing that SPAM outbreaks in the last two months have nearly doubled (eye-openingly interesting):
http://www.commtouch.com/Site/ResearchLab/statistics.asp
The reports also show an alarming trend: Spam is predominantly being sent from infected home PCs. These 'botnets' of compromised end-user systems post a big challenge for mail server administrators because their spam attacks are well distributed and very sophisticated. The operators of the mail botnets take great pains to obfuscate their email sources and will very intelligently distribute their mail attempts across many hundreds of thousands of "zombie" PCs.
Most people don't realize how hard we work or how much spam we filter out. (In case you want to find out, just log into your webmail and change the folder to "Spam" and see what you don't get.)
What the Government has to say (and yet it does so little): http://www.ftc.gov/spam/
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