The odds of a piece of spam being clicked on is now 12.5 million according to new research by University of California, Berkeley and UC, San Diego (UCSD). Unfortunately the research, in which computer scientists created a fake spam network on 75,000 machines, found that the real networks generate about $2 million in revenues a year.

This is because such networks use infected networks of PCs instead of their servers, they pay basically nothing. Nevertheless, if we can just reach those last few gullible users we can kill spam forever!

BBC story

Posted  11/11/07