Spammers have always kept themselves updated on the best ways to send malicious code to your systems. One day they will send mortgage deals and the other day they’ll be sending pitches for Viagra using Zombie PCs.
Spam exterminators say that 2005 was the best year in fighting spam and E-Mail providers claim that they traced down 90% of unwanted E-Mails from reaching the users inbox.
AOL spam fighters say that 2006 will be the year of the Zombie networks. Spammers will use a network of Zombie PCs instead of one Zombie, which will make spam detection even more difficult. As spam detection from a group of Zombies is much difficult than finding a spam through a single Zombie this will start a new era of spamming.
“Many spammers are reinventing themselves,” says Paul Judge, chief technical officer for Cipher Trust. In 2006, spammers will increasingly target everything from blogs to instant-messaging networks, he says.
Because more-effective spam filters increasingly challenge spammers, they are forced to shift their business tactics. While the spam message hasn’t changed, the online medium has.
But still software giants like Microsoft are optimistic about their approach against Spammers, Ryan Hamlin, general manager of technology care and safety at Microsoft, says: “If you think of solving the spam problem as a marathon, we have passed the 20-mile marker.”
We hope that these words should be true and soon the Internet world should get Spam free...
via: abcnews
