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    News - Microsoft and McAfee warn of worms

    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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    Re: News - Microsoft and McAfee warn of worms

    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!

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    Re: News - Microsoft and McAfee warn of worms

    @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.
    My only concern is should I hide my true identity? A costume maybe?

    0iD: Plus weeing in it every now & again does it good
    scaryjim: 10" is just a little large to hold comfortably in one hand, which makes it a lot harder to tap, swipe and generally interact with.

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    Re: News - Microsoft and McAfee warn of worms

    Quote Originally Posted by pauldarkside View Post
    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
    Last edited by Perfectionist; 04-11-2009 at 02:38 PM.

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    Re: News - Microsoft and McAfee warn of worms

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

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    Re: News - Microsoft and McAfee warn of worms

    @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)
    My only concern is should I hide my true identity? A costume maybe?

    0iD: Plus weeing in it every now & again does it good
    scaryjim: 10" is just a little large to hold comfortably in one hand, which makes it a lot harder to tap, swipe and generally interact with.

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    Re: News - Microsoft and McAfee warn of worms

    Quote Originally Posted by kalniel View Post
    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
    My only concern is should I hide my true identity? A costume maybe?

    0iD: Plus weeing in it every now & again does it good
    scaryjim: 10" is just a little large to hold comfortably in one hand, which makes it a lot harder to tap, swipe and generally interact with.

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    Re: News - Microsoft and McAfee warn of worms

    Quote Originally Posted by pauldarkside View Post
    @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.
    Last edited by Perfectionist; 04-11-2009 at 03:27 PM.

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    Re: News - Microsoft and McAfee warn of worms

    Quote Originally Posted by Perfectionist View Post
    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.
    My only concern is should I hide my true identity? A costume maybe?

    0iD: Plus weeing in it every now & again does it good
    scaryjim: 10" is just a little large to hold comfortably in one hand, which makes it a lot harder to tap, swipe and generally interact with.

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    Re: News - Microsoft and McAfee warn of worms

    Quote Originally Posted by pauldarkside View Post
    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.

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