Demand for Spam? It exists
Do you like spam? No, I’m not kidding. Everybody knows what spam is, almost everybody seems to have learned by heart simple advice like “do not click …” “do not respond…” , “do not buy…” but–
On March 23, 2005 Mirapoint and the Radicati Group, a consulting and market research firm, released preliminary results of their end-user survey on email hygiene. “This preliminary data is surprising and somewhat shocking to us,” said Marcel Nienhuis, market analyst at the Radicati Group.
The survey shows that some end users haven’t learned the lesson and still make the same blunders.
Blunder 1 — clicking on embedded links within spam (not including the unsubscribe link) — 31% of respondents have done it at least once. The most dangerous mistake.
Clicking on any embedded links in spam messages helps spammers determine ‘live’ email accounts, which means more spam. What’s worse, users can pick viruses, Trojans or other malicious code–just by clicking on embedded links. It may cause various problems, including loss of confidential information–identity theft, and loss of money from bank accounts as a result.
Users shouldn’t forget about such threat as phishing. Not long ago, on February. 15, 2005, it was the Radicati Group that pointed out –fraud and phishing types of email are one of the fastest growing segments of spam. In the first quarter of 2005 the Radicati Group expects fraudulent emails to reach 8% of all spam.
Blunder 2 — trying to unsubscribe to spam using the ‘unsubscribe’ link in the email — 18% of respondents
Some users are naive enough to think that spammers really won’t send any junk mail to their addresses if they tell them not to. Haven’t they heard that spammers use the unsubscribe link solely to identify active email accounts. When individual email addresses or entire domains are found to be active, they are doomed to flood of spam.
Blunder 3 — What’s more: Over 10% of respondents have purchased products advertised in spam. Sending out huge volumes of spam is very cheap, so let’s face it–spam is an effective means of advertising. Spam is booming, and these 10% users who actually bought anything advertised by spam, are partly to blame for it.
The consequences can be very serious when such a user is at work. Online criminals find more and more ways of stealing valuable information, some of these techniques include spam. Spam filters won’t solve the whole problem; much still depends on end users. Marcel Nienhuis, analyst from the Radicati Group, was absolutely right when said ” no technology in the world can protect an organisation if users’ exercise bad email behaviour.”
Alexandra Gamanenko currently works at Raytown Corporation, LLCan independent software developing company. This company provides software capable of disabling information-stealing modules, which can be hidden inside spyware as well as viruses, worms and Trojans.
Learn more — visit the company’s website
http://www.anti-keyloggers.com
MicroWorld releases new version of MailScan Ver. 4.5 - the antivirus and content security software f
Michigan - May 20, 2005 - MicroWorld Technologies, Inc. the leading solutions provider in the area of Anti-virus and Content security, has announced the launch of its new version of MailScan Ver. 4.5, the antivirus and content security software for mail servers.
The new version of MailScan provides additional security features to allow users to monitor the TCP connections on their systems, and use enhanced Anti-SPAM control to fight SPAM.
The new security feature interface displays all the active TCP connections to your computer. It lists information about the processes, protocols, local addresses, remote addresses and Process Status on the computer. It allows you to identify any unauthorized access to your mail server and take effective counter measures to safeguard your system.
MailScan 4.5 provides the user with real time access to Relay Blackhole List at <http://www.rbl.org> for IPs of known Spammers. The site maintains active real-time Blackhole list that you can use to verify if any IP that connects to your MailServer is listed as that of a known Spammer, and take appropriate action.
MailScan 4.5 is the next step in the continuing process to provide added security to mail servers against virus attacks, SPAM and other forms of security threats to networks via e-mail.
Mr Govind Rammurthy, CEO, MicroWorld Technologies, Inc. says “MicroWorld’s MailScan 4.5 with its new features, is a step forward in strengthening our products to ensure that corporate gateways are well-protected from ever increasing and smart Internet intruders. Continuous development has made MailScan one of the most popular mail gateway security products available in the markets today.”
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