News - Microsoft and McAfee warn of worms

[HEXUS]

Both Microsoft and McAfee have released security trend reports showing that worms and trojans are hitting social networks in a big way this year.

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[Whiternoise]

So.. 94% spam?

If we send around 200 billion a day - probably nearer to 250-300 by the end of this year - and each of those messages is 10kb, that's a whopping 2PB a day (that's PetaBytes). And if we assume that 95% of that is rubbish, then about 650PB of data is wasted along the internets every year...

To put that into perspective, you'd need 650,000 TB hard drives just storing text documents.

Of course emails range from pictures to large documents, so that figure is likely to be somewhat rough, it could be closer to 1EB!

[pauldarkside]

@Whiternoise: Compression. But yes, that's a lot of wasted bandwidth.

I'm still waiting for an anti-spam device I can apply to the postman but I get odd looks standing at the door with a hammer.

[Perfectionist]

Originally Posted by pauldarkside

I'm still waiting for an anti-spam device I can apply to the postman but I get odd looks standing at the door with a hammer.

To get off junk mail, send off emails (with a throwaway address) to optout@royalmail.com (info at http://stopjunkmail.org.uk/features/door_to_door ) and yourchoice@dma.org.uk (info at http://www.mydm.co.uk/control-dm-faq.html#q10 ) with the address you want removed (no need to give them your name, you don't want to voluntarily give them more data, only thing they should need is the address). If you get junk mail delivered that has your name, fill this in also: http://www.mpsonline.org.uk/mpsr/mps_choosetype.html

More info here:
http://junkbuster.org.uk/

http://stopjunkmailblog.blogspot.com...ur-choice.html

http://stopjunkmail.org.uk/stickers/about.php#q_04

[kalniel]

Making people pay to send mail was arguably the best anti-spam tactic that worked for postage, we need the same thing for email.

[pauldarkside]

@Perfectionist

It's not that sort of spam that's the problem - don't get any of that. It's all the leaflet crap the postman drops through the door regardless of whether you've actually got real post or not. Everytime I'm checking my post, I do so standing by the recycle bag - it's amazing how quickly if fills up. Don't appreciate having my time wasted filtering it all.

Waste of time having a word with whomever's delivering as their faces change too often. A "no junk mail" note on the door doesn't work either.

(Sorry for OT rant)

[pauldarkside]

Originally Posted by kalniel

Making people pay to send mail was arguably the best anti-spam tactic that worked for postage, we need the same thing for email.

Really? Not the case in my experience, as above, it hasn't stopped Dominos/Lidl/Dear Random Homeowner/etc

[Perfectionist]

Originally Posted by pauldarkside

@Perfectionist

It's not that sort of spam that's the problem - don't get any of that. It's all the leaflet crap the postman drops through the door regardless of whether you've actually got real post or not. Everytime I'm checking my post, I do so standing by the recycle bag - it's amazing how quickly if fills up. Don't appreciate having my time wasted filtering it all.

Waste of time having a word with whomever's delivering as their faces change too often. A "no junk mail" note on the door doesn't work either.

(Sorry for OT rant)

Did you read the first link I posted after the email? Or any of them, cos it seems you just saw a link thought "nono" and replied

That's called "royal mail door to door", the direct marketing scumbags actually pay royal mail to deliver them (and royal mail accepts, I don't think they used to do this but it seems a result of commercialising the national post), if you get off the ones delivered by the postman will stop. If you get leaflets after that, call the takeaway, mention that you are receiving junk mailfrom them and ask for your address (not name) to be taken off their list citing the data protection act - they tell the pikeys on bikes not to drop their wads of leaflets over there anymore, at least in my experience.

[pauldarkside]

Originally Posted by Perfectionist

Did you read the first link I posted after the email? Or any of them, cos it seems you just saw a link thought "nono" and replied

Sorry, guilty as charged. Immediately thought that was related to addressed mail

Just hope it works - reading their FAQ it seems Royal Mail have a tendancy to ignore requests.

[kalniel]

Originally Posted by pauldarkside

Really? Not the case in my experience, as above, it hasn't stopped Dominos/Lidl/Dear Random Homeowner/etc

I only said best, not 100% cure. But going by numbers, I get a lot more spam from freely posted sources than paid for mail.