Spam, still a problem

It is also one of the major problems of the Internet, Spam will increasingly develop and entail a lot of forms of other victims such as viruses, Spyware, Adware.

Statistics of phishing activities

Predict some new trends of spam in 2006 hoping to help readers reduce some of the unnecessary losses.

Spam, the long-term battle

Spammers (spammers) adapt very quickly to preventive measures. The ads may come from a Shanghai server, in a normal computer in Detroit. All the spammer's measures are to deceive and overcome ISP control.

However, 2005 was a year that was considered a success of spam prevention. The number of blocking messages is quite large, about a few dozen percent, there are some ISPs announcing to prevent more than 90% of spam to users' mailboxes.

Nothing is immutable, the world of spam prevention is expected to be fierce and tough in the new year. The following predictions partly indicate the development trend of Spam.

Development in quantity

Experts call for computers that are remotely controlled and distribute spams as zombie computers. Currently, only the zombie computers appear, but in 2006 promises to have a network of Zombie computers. In this way, spammers will save a lot of costs and anonymously better.

In 2004, there was 35% of spam originating from the Zombie, in 2005, this figure was 60% and predicted in 2006 can only be more but not worse.

New tricks

Fake Paypal

Phishing is the name given to deceptive practices that aim to understand personal information for financial purposes. The form is very diverse, from pretending to famous websites like Paypal, E-Bay . to more advanced techniques such as spear phishing, which is a technique to impersonate those close to you like the insiders. agency, family friends.

Another way is to send 'special' requests, for example informing you that you have revealed account information, giving you a link to a website that contains information about you, worrying about you and clicking on the link. So you have been tricked. Many ways, mainly on greed, passion of the majority of Internet users.

The essence of the method is still to trick you into clicking on a link. If you do, your computer will automatically download codes, malicious programs, maybe your computer has joined the ranks of zombies.

New roads

In early January, there were viruses spreading through AIM messages (American Online's online messaging program). This message comes from people you know (in the contact list), with an invitation to view an image at Myspace.com website. Just click on the link above, the machine will automatically download spyware (adware), adware (advertising spreaders) . and spam.

Spread through the security flaws of the program, especially Microsoft's Windows programs will continue to grow, because no one program is truly complete.

The new "wing" of Spam

SplogSpot

Change is faster than fashion. 2005 saw a lot of spam deception in the form of giving you information to have a free iPod or something like that.

However, in 2006, it will focus mainly on financial and securities investment invitations because . it is harder to detect fraud.

Today, spam is not simply in email but also in blogs, also called spam blogs or splogs, on online messages. These trends are the new ones that can flourish in 2006. In addition, the anti-spam laws and increasingly strict spam filters will cause spam to change the attacker. That's a long story.

Splogs cause a lot of damage to blogs. There are already anti-splogs websites such as SplogSpot and Splog Reporter, you can visit to see more details.

Spam is still minute by minute causing damage to the Internet economy. There will never be a destination for anti-spam work. Depending on the consciousness of Internet residents and technological power, it is only possible to limit it somewhat .

TRAN HUY