Spam Menace Emails Get Chocked
Recently, Microsoft released a security report, according to which about 97 percent of the total number of emails sent all around the world was spam, or unwanted to be more precise. The report also said that most of these were advertisements that more often than not referred to health schemes and drugs, as others were concerned with easy money making methods. Something to worry here, according to the study was the lion’s share of these mails contained malicious codelines or software attached to them that could easily penetrate the computers of the receivers of these mails.
Some good news were also disclosed by the study that although a handful of mails managed to get through into the mail inbox of the receiver, the majority of the mails failed to hit the inbox. It is a fact that with today’s high speed broadband services, improved operating systems and high-end computers sending out billions of spam mails is a mere trifle. This was obviously not the condition four or five years before.
An analysis carried out by Message Labs, an email security concern, revealed that owing to the removal offline of a hacked ISP, the end of the year 2008 saw a dramatic drop of spam rates. A number of botnet technology developers were desperately striving to increase capacity to regain the botnet controls and hence return to the spam levels they had achieved previously.
The hackers’ most preferred target, or at least one of the most is the common file format. Microsoft’s Office Suite and Adobe’s PDF files contain many of these. Such files are mostly used by the hackers to penetrate their target computers, although the vile activities of these sources were considerably countered by highly potent defense software updates, the respective manufacturers released periodically.
