| 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. .
How Spam Works Posted By : Matt Garrett -
Spam involves sending unsolicited e-mail to many people, and is a very common practice today. It is not unusual for the average person to have 30% of his or her e-mail as spam, and there is a huge demand for new techniques to block spam including the existing methods, such as spam blockers, spam filters and the creation of e-mail whitelists. The most unfortunate aspect of how spam works is that it is quite simple. A spammer needs only collect a large number of web addresse.. .
Apollo Hosting Deploys CanIt-PRO Anti-Spam Software to 30000 ...
Specializing in 'Total Solutions Hosting' Apollo Hosting provides everything their customers need to build, sell and market their websites. Their web servers were processing over half a million unsolicited spam emails on a daily basis. Apollo's Vice President of Operations, Don McLeman was I.T. Manager at the time and oversaw the switch to CanIt-PRO. "We were fairly happy with our anti-spam filter at the time, but they wanted to renegotiate the contract," McLeman explains, "this would have been expensive for us and bad for our clients." The hunt was on for another Spam Filter provider. McLeman jokes that "One of our techs brought up Roaring Penguin's CanIt as a possible solution to our problem at the time, but the way he described it didn't make it sound like the solution we were looking for." Apollo went with another provider and quickly found that it required too much effort.
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