The Spam Cryer

Are you ready to see your spam volume Jump 10 times?

It took less than 3 months for the Spammers to ramp up their production to 90% of where it was pre-McColo takedown in November 2008 according to a number of reports and graphs available online.

The first report is from Message Labs and it reports that with spam volume up another 5% so far in January 2009 the top 10 Botnets, while consisting of between 10 thousand to 1 Million bots (estimated), were capable of sending out between 131 Million to almost 40 BILLION Spam messages PER DAY per Botnet. Total Volume from just the top 10 Botnets totalled almost 65 Billion messages per day! Are you getting your fair share?

It is interesting to see that the largest Botnet Cutwail/Pandex placed second behind Mega-D/Ozdok in spam volume per day category (7 Billion to 38 Billion) even though it had more compromised PC

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