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  1. Join Date
    May 2005
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    #1

    haynaku! lagi tayong kasama sa top ten sa negative things? could be an aftermath of those pirated softwares and a lot of people are not using even the free spamwares/anti-virus available in the net!

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    [SIZE=3]87 percent of e-mails from RP spam[/SIZE]
    [SIZE=2]By DAVID DIZON[/SIZE]
    [SIZE=2]abs-cbnnews.com[/SIZE]

    [SIZE=2]A total of 87 percent of e-mails in the Philippines are spam, making it the second nation in the Asia-Pacific region with the worst spam activity, software firm Symantec said Tuesday. [/SIZE]

    [SIZE=2]Excerpts of Symantec's latest Internet Threat Security Report for January-June 2007 showed the Philippines ranking second to Uzbekistan in junk mail proliferation. This means that almost nine out of 10 e-mails received or sent in the Philippines are likely spam. [/SIZE]

    [SIZE=2]Other countries in the region with unusually high volumes of spam in e-mail traffic are Vietnam (84 %), South Korea (83 %) and Mongolia (82 %) [/SIZE]

    [SIZE=2]Richard Velasco, senior technical consultant for Symantec, said Manila is now ranked third among major Asia-Pacific cities with the highest number of spam "zombies" or computers infected with malicious software that send out thousands of junk e-mail everyday. [/SIZE]

    [SIZE=2]"Manila jumped from 12th place to 3rd place in top spam zombie cities in the past six months because of the large number of computers infected with spam zombies," Velasco said in a media briefing in Makati. [/SIZE]

    [SIZE=2]Velasco said increased connectivity and the proliferation of cybercafés in the Philippines are likely causing an increase in "bots" or malicious programs that allow hackers to control computers remotely. "This is alarming because the country is now becoming a popular target for cyber criminals," he said. [/SIZE]

    [SIZE=2]He said the Symantec report showed that the Philippines is now ranked 4th in Southeast Asia with regards to proliferation of malicious cyber attacks including phishing Web sites, spam zombies and command-and-control attacks. [/SIZE]

    [SIZE=2]Velasco said most spammers are paid to send out unsolicited e-mails as part of synchronized attacks on specific domains. [/SIZE]

    [SIZE=2]He also pointed out that most small and medium enterprises in the country do not utilize some form of anti-spam software. He said the increase in junk e-mails could lead to increased costs for businesses as companies lose productivity while spending more on storage and bandwidth. [/SIZE]

    [SIZE=2]"A small or medium size company could get an average of 5,000 e-mails a day. When the volume goes to 15,000 a day, they feel that they have to spend more because they're getting more e-mail, not knowing that it's just spam," he said. [/SIZE]

    [SIZE=2]The Symantec report said the company observed an average of 15,447 active bot-infected computers per day in the Asia-Pacific region and Japan during the six-month period. It said the bot-infected computers made up 29 percent of the worldwide average of 52,771 active bot-infected computers per day. [/SIZE]

    [SIZE=2]The report said at least 25 percent of all spam detected in the Asia-Pacific region and Japan originated from China. [/SIZE]

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  2. Join Date
    Jan 2006
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    12,347
    #2
    That seems to confirm what I've been noticing during the past year. That's why whenever I visit any Pinoy site, my pc/Mac is always at full shields/cloak.

    I've noticed a number of suspicious things even here in Tsikot.com enough to make me a bit wary.

  3. Join Date
    Oct 2002
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    #3
    my mcafee actually told me that tsikot.com was rated "orange" because of suspicious activity as well :nerves:

    when they did the refresh, they must have caught and eliminated the suspicious stuff because it's now all green :2thumbsup:

87 percent of e-mails from RP spam -High Ranking na naman tayo!