Emerging Trends in Fighting Spam

Overview

Spam has been a serious problem for email administrators and users alike for more than five years, growing from one in six emails in 2002 to approximately three out of four emails today. This white paper focuses on the problems caused by image spam, as well as other spammer techniques for delivering content through existing spam-blocking defenses. The paper also discusses SymantecÂ’s approach to solving the problem of image spam, botnets and other threats.