Spam hovers at 90% in 2009

Dermot Harnett, an analyst at Symantec Antispam Engineering, said that the last 10 years, the average amount of spam in your mailbox for the organization as a whole has increased from 8% of all e-mails in 2000 to an average 90% in 2009, according to news from Computerworld January 14, 2010. Surprisingly, most of the increase in the amount of spam seen in the second half of the decade. In a final blog, look back on spam trends in the last ten years, Harnett said that some of the most prominent facts of spam in the past ten years, more than 40 billion spam e-mail, distributed only in 2009. There has been a steady increase in spam levels of 56% of all e-mail in 2006 to a record high of 95% at the end of May 2009. The explosion not only left an impact on the volume of messages, but also increased negative impact on business. Moreover, the actual cost of the spam difficult to understand, some estimates of 130 billion dollars globally, is $ 42 billion in the U.S.. In addition, spammers proved more elusive than ever, cities and in the last decade as people observe the increasing complexity of spam techniques. Spam messages with attached images represent up to 52% of the total volume of spam in January 2007. PDF spam is estimated around 20% of all spam in August 2007. In addition, malware, spam Laden, social networking sites and spam in relation to current events and celebrities, has become the most popular target for cybercriminals in their attempts to find a way to try to mix a user’s inbox. For example, in 2009, convinced sudden death of Michael Jackson a few spammers, and thus in its heyday, Michael Jackson just overwhelmed spam spam in connection with President Obama. It should be noted that spam accounted Obama nearly 2% of all spam messages delivered. In addition, said Harnett economy behind spam is that 2010 will be a new year full of action for spammers. The flow of spam continue as long as the distribution channels are relatively cheap, botnets are alive and change places, and spammers at the newest and innovative to try to overcome the anti-spam filters.