“Stunning” survey results lead to seven-step guide.
Email security firm Vircom has issued a seven-step guide to avoiding spam, after its six-month study revealed (shock, horror) that responding to spam is the worst thing end users can do if they wish to avoid clogging their inboxes.
Vircom’s SpamBuster team spent six months analysing the results of various levels of response to spam, from clicking the links in the messages, to sending back aggressive responses by return of message.
The “stunning” results of the study showed that not only is there a dramatic increase in spam activity in accounts responding to spam, but “aggressive responses sent to spammers will actually trigger up to a 300 per cent increase in the junk you will get from them!” No kidding …
Posted on 28 June 2004 by
Virus Bulletin
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