Spam increased in Second Quarter

California - Google's research results reveal that during the second quarter 2009, the amount of spam jumped 53 percent from the previous quarter. The percentage of the amount of spam this is the highest that have occurred since 2007.

Told by Senior Product Marketing Manager Google, Adam Swidler, trends in the spread of computer virus at this time is dominated by the middle of the transmission of viruses through file attachments in spam.

Cellular-news, on Monday (6/7/2009) launch, in early June the amount of spam as a whole had decreased as much as 30 percent. According to the analyst, this is as a result of closing one of the internet service provider 3FN by the Federal Trade Commission.

Marshal8e6 and security vendor Symantec said perihakl the contrary, they think closing 3FN only a small impact on the volume of spam. Even less than a week after the closing of 3FN, Marshal8e6 announced that the amount of spam increased from the previous level.

"We can not provide comment on the research results of other companies. However, data derived from Google's spam the survey of 3.5 billion emails that circulate every day," said Swidler.

He also added that data from Google to provide this comprehensive picture of trends in spam in the middle of the internet.

One of the trends in the distribution pattern of which is spam spammers regularly often spread spam in a way long time, including a photo spread.

"Image spam, spam, or contain common images used by the spammers in 2007. Now the spammers are using kemabli way, add a link to the virus or malicious content in it. Later, the file size is very large email network will create a heavy, firm Swidler .

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