spam in indian’s inbox
Posted by Praneeth on December 18th, 2006.
Business Standard: Every 27th email in an Indian’s inbox contains a virus, trojan or other form of malware, making our country continually the hardest hit in terms of virus activity.The seemingly innocuous spam, however, which continues to account for roughly 70 per cent of all e-mail messages on the Internet (over 90 per cent of people in India receive spam) is a bigger threat, indicates a recent report by security firm MessageLabs. MessageLabs annual intelligence report predicts that IM attacks will increase in 2007. Social Networking sites will become incresingly attractive for hackers due to the accessible information that is posted
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I am actually surprised that it is only 70%.
In the last 6 months I have observed that in my gmail accounts I have received at least 5 times spam as compared to normal mail. And I haven't registered in any of the social networking sites like myspace or facebook. This is just an observation, but I was just wondering how much spam the guys who have registered themselves at different sites should be getting.
Hail Gmail spam filters.
junk folders are a pain for one has to see thru all the mail for the good ones also go to the junk folder. I have tried a product www.spamjadoo.com , that eliminates spam totally and blocks the spammer from sending the mail , hence i have no junk folder and no wastage of time and bandwidth. Recommended product