Spam plummets after bust
| November 17, 2008 |  View for printing |
The power of the press.
How else to describe the impact of an investigative piece by ace reporter Brian Krebs of the Washington Post, which led to the take down of McColo, a Web-hosting company responsible for a ton of spam.
E-mail security firm IronPort says spam volumes are down about 60%, to 64.1 billion from 153 billion just a few days ago. By comparison, in September and October, the average daily spam volume was almost 190 billion.
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