Sopho’s published statistics and I thought I would talk about it here. Bill Gates promised to have a Magic Solution 5 Years ago. Sophos Also provide a Chart of the Dirty Dozen:
Sopho’s also is claiming that “US retains its crown as spam king“. I don’t think so because of the the Other 32.4%. The US can’t be the main culprit to spam. So What was this ‘Magic Solution’ that they promised 5 years ago?
Microsoft has two techniques in mind for solving the spam issue, both based on the premise of changing the economics of email to place a greater burden on the sender.
[Via CBR]
Microsoft did have some good ideas but they wouldn’t work for right now because the first part of the ‘magic Solution’ was to add mathmatical question to each and every email we sent out. I know that this wasn’t going to work because hackers have already created a systems to get around the captcha verification.
[ad#ad2-right]Spammers of course are the ones who is sending out the spam but they have people who write virus software, which I consider a hacker. You see they want to infect systems so they can easily send out even more email. When a system becomes a Botnet they usually are used to send out email. If your curious as to what a Botnet is Check out the Wikipedia entry for further details. So they need these systems to be able to send out spam, and other types of email phishing. Most of the time a spammers spam just for money because they make money by spamming people. I hate spam because it clogs up our email accounts with unwanted emails.
So Did Microsoft come up with a fix? According to Sopho’s they seem to be dropping percentages from 2004 to now in the US. I have to wonder if Microsoft proclomation made them worry and go outside of the US. I don’t think it will stop in fact, I suspect with the economy like it is we will undoubtedly start seeing even more spam and even more computer infections.
In order to prevent yourself from viruses and computer infections, you will need to install Anti-virus software and a Good firewall, not just the Default Windows Firewall. This will greatly increase your chances of not getting a virus and possibly help prevent some of the spam. You should also tell your associates or customers the benefits of preventive updates. You should also remind people about not clicking links in emails and also not everything you read is true.
