Spammers still find plenty of easy targets
A new survey by the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group finds that 12 percent of Internet users open messages they know to be spam because they're interested in the product or service being pitched.
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My best solution anti spam comes from BitDefender! I don't have spam... I really don't and the big thing in this is that I don't get spam on my IM and YM so I'm really SPAMless with BitDefender!
I recommend it as the best solution ever( and trust me, I tried it all :))
Posted by OnSeeker | July 28, 2009 9:33 AM
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