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We are having some very good news today from the anti-spam battlefield with Washington Post reporting on a significant victory in the never-ending battle which has resulted in a drastic decrease in the volume of spam worldwide. The reason is simple: earlier today a web hosting firm McColo Corp. that served as a major host of numerous spam activities was disconnected from the internet.

It looks like spam volume has taken a turn for the better, at least for now.

After a couple of years of playing a shell game with security researchers, spam giant McColo Corp. was finally disconnected. Hosting major operations related to porn, credit card theft, fraud and other nefarious criminal activities, McColo posed as a legitimate corporate entity and conducted it’s business operations in Silicon Valley. On a global level, McColo is reportedly accountable for anywhere fro 50 to 75 percent of all spam activity on the planet.

Yesterday BBC reported on a study carried out after a working spam network had been hijacked by scientists from University of California, Berkeley and UC, San Diego. The network studied uses infected home computers to send junk mail in mass volumes instead of using servers of its own. It is reported that at one time the network controlled over a million of machines.

To make the study possible the scientists seized control over a small part of the network and sent out spam messages themselves to see how recipients will react.

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