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InternetNews December 14, 2009	Security Firm Finds Spammers Thriving in U.S. McAfee's December spam report finds spammers are still operating with relative impunity despite looming six-year anniversary of FTC's Can-Spam Act.
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InternetNews July 16, 2010	U.S. Snags Dubious Honor of Spam Leader The United States has again landed atop the list of countries that relay spam e-mail messages, according to software-security vendor Sophos, while the United Kingdom gains some ground.
InternetNews April 11, 2005 Tim Gray	Americans Learning to Live With Spam Agita E-mail users say they are more accepting of spam. Doesn't make it less painful though.
InternetNews April 2, 2008 Andy Patrizio	Volunteers For Spam Security vendor McAfee hires 50 volunteers to be spammed as much as they can manage, and then have them blog about it.
InternetNews July 1, 2004 Sharon Gaudin	U.S. Sending More than Half of All Spam While the flood of spam has increased sharply during the last six months, a new survey also shows that slightly more than half of it worldwide is coming out of the U.S.
InternetNews January 6, 2011	Google Ups Ante in Fight Against Spam The latest addition to the Google Apps suite for business customers is a free email authentication option.
InternetNews July 15, 2009	Spam Not So Profitable? Despite sending millions of messages each day, botnet operators and spam marketers rake in less than one might think.
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InternetNews July 22, 2010	Shortened URLs Are Spam Magnets: Gartner Abbreviated URLs are standard operating procedure on Twitter and everyone loves Twitter. So it's no surprise hackers are embedding malware in shortened URLs to evade security apps.
The Motley Fool January 26, 2004 Selena Maranjian	An End to Spam? We may be rejoicing in 2006, thanks to Bill Gates. Gates alluded to a "magic solution" that his team is working on to address the problem of unwanted email, or spam. Better still, he expects this solution to be in place soon.
InternetNews July 15, 2010	Spammers Stalk Smaller States, Businesses Latest spam report from Symantec finds that large spamming syndicates send a larger percentage of malware missives to SMBs and consumers in states with smaller populations.
InternetNews February 24, 2004 Sharon Gaudin	Viruses Blamed for Expected 80% Spam Saturation by Q3 Spam is expected to make up 80 percent of all email by the third-quarter of this year. And analysts blame it largely on the open proxies created by viruses, like Sobig and MyDoom.
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InternetNews March 18, 2010 Stuart J. Johnston	What Microsoft Learned From Botnet Takedown Even software giant Microsoft had trouble corralling the Waledac malware-spreading botnight.
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InternetNews August 10, 2007 Andy Patrizio	Stopping Spammers at The Point of Sale New research suggests going after the commerce sites listed in spam mail, but some have already been doing just that.
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