SPAM SPAM SPAM, please educate your staff
With all the new anti spam tools and controls to try to combat spam today, how is it that we still receive so much?
Many Internet Service Providers have made strict changes to stop these mass mailers, which also makes users’ lives more complicated having to change the way their email client works.
Here at CertainIT, we help businesses combat the problem using the latest technology and have great support from MailProtector. The main cause of the recently high volumes is Trojans running on your computers in the background sending emails out from your machine without you even knowing.
Staff education is most important to prevent your business from contributing to this and slowing down your internal networks. Don’t open suspicious emails or install programs that contain Malware that contribute to the problem. These Trojans give outside hackers the ability to use their internal network to be used as a Spamming tool.
MessageLabs recently noted a pair of Trojans for pushing up spam levels. They are so sophisticated that they morph their code and email content which makes it almost impossible for the normal anti virus and anti spam engines to stop it.
According to the UK-based security provider, the percentage of spam has increased. 70% of all mail in October compared to 64% in September.
MessageLabs alone snared nearly a million copies of the newest Warezov variant during a 24-hour period late in the month.
It is likely that spam rates will continue to rise through the end of the year due to these types of attacks, so using MailProtector to help your business combat these emails is a great time saver for your business.
In its end-of-the-month report on the state of messaging, MessageLabs also noted that while the overall volume of phishing emails had decreased slightly, the percentage of malicious messages that were identity fraud related increased.
Please talk to us at CertainIT if you would like to look at really effective ways of cutting down your received SPAM email and completely knocking out emails infected with Viruses with up to the minute protection before emails even touch your mail server. 0845-634-7814