Global spam e-mail levels suddenly fall

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Post by baha_man » Thu, Jan 06, 2011, 1:59 PM UTC

Global spam e-mail levels suddenly fall
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Re: Global spam e-mail levels suddenly fall

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Post by mootothemax » Thu, Jan 06, 2011, 3:51 PM UTC

I have noticed an absolutely huge decrease in the amount of spam arriving at my main domain. Right now I'm receiving 15-20 spams a day, which is a tenfold reduction. My domain's hosted by Google, and the decrease has been so noticeable that I have an entry on my to-do list to start hunting through GMail's help and blogs to see if they've implemented something new. It looks like I've found my answer!

Re: Global spam e-mail levels suddenly fall

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Post by tomrod » Thu, Jan 06, 2011, 4:49 PM UTC

Because the resources are now dedicated to SEO?

Re: Global spam e-mail levels suddenly fall

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Post by IgorPartola » Thu, Jan 06, 2011, 5:06 PM UTC

tomrod wrote: post #3

Because the resources are now dedicated to SEO?

Can you do SEO more efficiently with a botnet than without one?

Re: Global spam e-mail levels suddenly fall

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Post by tomjen3 » Thu, Jan 06, 2011, 5:13 PM UTC

Any chance that someone has started to terminate the botnet owners, rather than the botnets themselves?

Re: Global spam e-mail levels suddenly fall

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Post by vijaykotari » Thu, Jan 06, 2011, 5:32 PM UTC

Perhaps, the Daemon(http://thedaemon.com) has been activated?

Re: Global spam e-mail levels suddenly fall

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Post by phpnode » Thu, Jan 06, 2011, 5:37 PM UTC

IgorPartola wrote: post #4

tomrod wrote: post #3

Because the resources are now dedicated to SEO?

Can you do SEO more efficiently with a botnet than without one?

Very black hat SEO yes. It wouldn't surprise me if there was a distributed version of xrumer or other link spamming software.

Re: Global spam e-mail levels suddenly fall

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Post by asolove » Thu, Jan 06, 2011, 5:37 PM UTC

tomjen3 wrote: post #5

Any chance that someone has started to terminate the botnet owners, rather than the botnets themselves?

This would explain the "Became a Gmail Ninja" marketing: www.google.com/mail/help/tips.html

Re: Global spam e-mail levels suddenly fall

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Post by kijinbear » Thu, Jan 06, 2011, 5:42 PM UTC

Maybe a lot of people bought new PCs for the holiday season, crippling the botnets that used to rely on older (less secure) versions of Windows?

Re: Global spam e-mail levels suddenly fall

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Post by stcredzero » Thu, Jan 06, 2011, 6:07 PM UTC

tomrod wrote: post #3

Because the resources are now dedicated to SEO?

What people don't like to admit about spam, is that it created value for somebody. This is why some people clicked on the ads and why others profited.

SEO Spam creates value. Unfortunately, it also degrades value for a great many others. There is opportunity here. Google or some other search engine needs to figure out how to capture the value in SEO spam. (Perhaps by finding a way to identify "original pages" like those on StackOverflow and then act to enforce their terms of service?)