| Image spam becoming a growing challenge
There are hundreds of millions of spam email messages being sent every day. This has been a significant problem as spam covers 90% of all emails worldwide. Now this has become an even bigger challenge due to increased volume of image spam.
Image spam is a serious and growing problem, not least because of its ability to circumvent traditional email spam filters to clog servers and inboxes. In just half a year, the problem of image spam has become general enough to be representative of 35 per cent of all junk mail. Not only this, but image spam is taking up 70 per cent of the bandwidth bulge on account of the large file sizes every single one represents.
Apart from taking up valuable bandwidth, the time taken to filter out and destroy spam represents a significant burden on both IT staff and personnel in businesses and organizations.
Spam on IP telephony
Spam filters can easily be trained to give better than 90 per cent effectiveness with zero false positives, and for those who still suffer from a lot of spam in their inboxes, they are either not updating their spam databases often enough, or they just do not see the value of getting 90 per cent fewer email messages. There was also a bout of Spasms (spam over SMS) - less of a problem for businesses, where this does not seem to have been endemic, but pretty nasty for many children who find that they get messages asking for a response, and then find that up to £10 has been taken from their mobile account as a result. .
PC and Components
The speed with which an unprotected PC picks up malware from the Internet can be truly scary, hence the rise in popularity of security bundles that combine antivirus, firewall and spam protection. BitDefender's award-winning antivirus side is its strongest feature. It filters all the vectors viruses use to infect your system, checking downloads, email, peer-to-peer exchanges, network connections, CDs, ZIPs and USB keys. The program can scan files on access, on demand or on schedule - BitDefender creates a tiny desktop window called the File Zone that indicates how many files have recently been scanned. You can drag and drop things in there if you want them checked out. Email virus attachments that can't be cleaned are quarantined and one click sends them to BitDefender for analysis.
Email Marketing Solution Provider Offers Tips on Email Deliverability
Lititz, PA (PRWeb) January 17, 2007 -- With a plethora of spam and virus threats prowling networks and servers, it's not surprising to see a large percentage of legitimate mass email marketing stuck in junk mail folders or filtered out altogether. It's estimated that up to 80 percent of all email is spam. When permission-based or opt-in email marketing is erroneously filtered, marketers are left with unimpressive campaign results. This can account for lost profits and tarnished business reputations. Email deliverability is the act of increasing each email's chance of moving through these filters and blocks into recipients' inbox.
The Interactive Advertising Bureau's October 2006 white paper titled "Marketer & Agency Guide to Email Deliverability" outlines techniques to avoid spam traps.
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