You Have Got Spam, Don't Worry
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| Spam from your house
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| Do you know that spam could be coming from your own home? You need to
| be additional clear in your mind of who your e-mail sender is; if you
| do not know from where your mail is coming it is better not to open
| the mail.
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| Multi-billion dollar industry
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| It has been discovered that spam has consistently become a billion
| dollar industry today. The California state government discovered that
| spam cost U.S. organizations $10 billion in 2004. That staggering figure
| is included with damages, downtime, and human and electronic resources
| required to battle it. If it makes you feel any better, you are not alone.
| In 2004, Microsoft's Steve Ballmer stated that Bill Gates 'literally
| receives four million pieces of e-mail per day, most of it spam.'
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| Now that is Spamalot. Regarding the irony of all the get-rich and
| debt-relief spam he receives, Gates has commented,
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| It would be funny if it were'nt so irritating.
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| Gates even predicted that spammers were charged for unwanted e-mail.
| That was in 2004. Today, spam seems more prevalent than ever and is
| found on virtually every type of web-enabled service and device. It is
| not that we question Gates? sincerity or the industry's efforts to
| squash spam, but it does underscore the size of the beast.
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http://www.spywarehunter.org/entry/you-have-got-spam-dont-worry/
Older news:
Zombie PCs spew out 80% of spam
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| Trojans and worms with backdoor components such as Migmaf and SoBig
| have turned infected Windows PCs into drones in vast networks of
| compromised zombie PCs.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06/04/trojan_spam_study/
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