Re: 95% of User Generated Content is spam or malicious

["Tomas L. Byrnes" <tomb () byrneit net>]

I dunno. For those of us who have been on-net forever, with well
archived and distributed e-mail addresses and parent zones, your
assertion is clearly true.

I find it very interesting how the spam volume to any of my various mail
accounts is inversely proportional to two factors:

1: Age.

2: How many messages I have sent from it.

I've got a yahoo account that is only used as a account of last
resort/alternate technical contact for zones I own that almost NEVER
gets spam. I have NEVER sent an e-mail from it, and only Register.com
and Godaddy have ever been given it.

OTOH, I have the "when I register for free stuff" yahoo account that is
deluged.

I think, averaged, the number may be correct.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org]
> On Behalf Of Rich Kulawiec
> Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 5:29 AM
> To: funsec () linuxbox org
> Subject: Re: [funsec] 95% of User Generated Content is spam or
> malicious
>
> On Sun, Feb 07, 2010 at 05:57:45PM -0500, Robert Portvliet wrote:
> > According the Websense Security Labs 'state of Internet security
> report' 95%
> > of User Generated Content is spam or malicious & 85% of all email is
> spam.
>
> 85% is way too low.  Plausible numbers are in the 96-98% range.
>
> ---Rsk
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