McColo Fallout Does Not Stop Spam Levels from Decreasing

Numerous reports have indicated email Spam volumes are increasing again since McColo a rouge hosting company was pulled off the Internet last month. Although there was a major drop in Spam, it seemed to have been short live as many reports are showing an up swing.

SecurityOrb.com consultants predicts, many bot-masters (an individual who is responsible for and maintains a malicious computer bots.) will take a more distributed approach in the future to prevent and defend against acts such as the McColo ISP disconnection.

McColo Shutdown Does Not Stop Spammers

In the spirit of entrepreneurship, spammers are finding new ways to send out their junk mail just weeks after the shutdown of a major web-hosting firm took many of them off the map.

According to Message Labs , a division of Symantec , after Web-hosting company McColo Corp. was shut down two weeks ago, spam levels declined by 65 percent. Now new analysis finds spam levels are returning to two-thirds of what they were before the McColo Corp.

Full article at Infoworld.