Tuesday, February 06, 2007
Image Spam Getting Smarter, More Sophisticated
Image Spam Getting Smarter, More Sophisticated
Consider this: Image spam rose 500% in 2006! It currently accounts for 35% of messages and 50% of bandwidth taken by all spam messages.
Spammers now send the code included in the images, and many of the anti-spam technologies are adding more features to curb this menace of image spam. The threat of image spam could be even worse than that for text-spam owing to the additional bandwidth and space that images occupy.
If you are using a robust anti-virus package such as Norton Anti-virus, you should have little to worry about since these are usually able to identify all malware - whethere images or text - but make sure you upgrade your anti-virus softwares to the newer versions regularly
Consider this: Image spam rose 500% in 2006! It currently accounts for 35% of messages and 50% of bandwidth taken by all spam messages.
Spammers now send the code included in the images, and many of the anti-spam technologies are adding more features to curb this menace of image spam. The threat of image spam could be even worse than that for text-spam owing to the additional bandwidth and space that images occupy.
If you are using a robust anti-virus package such as Norton Anti-virus, you should have little to worry about since these are usually able to identify all malware - whethere images or text - but make sure you upgrade your anti-virus softwares to the newer versions regularly
Labels: e-mail, internet, spam
