January 12, 2007 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Email management and protection services provider Email Systems (emailsystems.com) announced on Thursday that email traffic online could double in a little as two months if the quantity of spam doesn’t slow down.
Spam levels have historically risen month on month, but since July 2006 the trend has considerably worsened, with spammers significantly changing tactics, which has resulted in the start of a sudden, exponential rise in volumes of traffic, says the company. Since that time, email traffic has grown by approximately 25 to 35 percent month on month, resulting in the overall quantity now being more than triple its level just four months ago.
This massive growth in traffic is the result of spammers no longer distributing a single mail to a large number of recipients, instead preferring to distribute individual spam mails to individual email addresses, each featuring a minute change of some type in an attempt to mark the message as unique and thereby evade detection. One of the current trends amongst virus writers is for their viruses to enable spammers to utilize infected machines to distribute messages on their behalf.
“With such an exponential rise in traffic since July this year, it is highly probable that many email users could be looking at a very severe downturn in speed of data provision at the very least if this trend continues at the current pace,” says Neil Hammerton, CEO of Email Systems. “Last winter was a frenzied period for spam and viruses, with viruses in particular accounting for more than half of all email traffic sent. If that trend occurs again this year then the quantity of viruses distributed will be many times more than has ever been seen previously, simply due to the escalation in volume that has taken place in the last twelve months.”
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