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Brightmail: 56% of E-Mail Is Spam

Dec 4, 2003 3:27PM PST

The deluge of spam shows no sign of receding, according to figures released by anti-spam software company Brightmail.

Brightmail found that 56 percent of e-mail traffic in November was spam, a 4 percent rise from spam's share of all e-mail from October. Spam accounted for 42 percent of e-mail at the start of the year, the company said. The November spam figure is the highest Brightmail has ever recorded.

The San Francisco company tracks spam through its Probe Network, which deploys dummy e-mail accounts to identify spam messages that it then blocks for clients. It blocked 77 billion messages in November.

Another e-mail security firm, United Kingdom-based Sophos, said Dec. 3 that spammers increasingly are hiding their identity by hijacking the computers of unsuspecting users with non-secure broadband connections. Sophos estimates that so-called Remote Access Tools letting spammers take control of computers remotely now account for 30 percent of all spam messages. Such techniques make tracking down spammers even tougher.

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-Donna
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