On November 11th, it seems that a win for the good guys happened as a major source for online scams and email spam was knocked offline. There appears to have been a web hosting company located in San Jose, CA that was estimated to be the source for around 70% of all online email spam and internet scams. It seems that for the last 4 months Security Fix has been monitoring data about the web hosting company known as McColo Corp. and when reported their findings to the larger internet provider of the company, they immediately severed the connection for the web hosting company taking them offline completely.

A U.S. based Web hosting firm that security experts say was responsible for facilitating more than 75 percent of the junk e-mail blasted out each day globally has been knocked offline following reports from Security Fix on evidence gathered about suspicious activity emanating from the network.

This is a huge success because already companies who monitor the flow of spam email have seen a ENORMOUS drop in the amount of spam emails (click here for chart) that are were being controlled by these botnets. But at the same time others are saying that it is only a matter of time before the people who were hosting their “services” with the company will move their operations overseas where it will be much harder to shut down their operations of business. Never less this is a firm step to show that the good guys are still out there trying their best to hunt down the bad guys and help us get rid of these annoying emails that fill out inboxes from day to day.

Interesting Fact: Only about 1 in 12,500,000 spam emails are actually read by people and replied to but are still managing to bring in about $7,000 a day or $3.5m over a year.

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So for now enjoy the time without so much spam and hope the good guys keep up the good work and continue to fight to bring down more of these botnet hosts that love to fill our inboxes with all their lovely emails!