Tag: MCCOLO

A few months ago, the Federal Trade Commission worked to shut down the spammy behavior of one California-based ISP called McColo. The company was found to be hosting a number of so-called botnets (groups of computers that send e-mails and spread malicious software) that were responsible for a huge portion of the world's spam. When McColo was shut down, inboxes around the world breathed a sigh ...

Thanks to the busting up of spam purveyor McColo Corp., about which we reported Wednesday, Internet spam decreased by nearly 66-percent on Tuesday, according to the Washington Post. This massive decrease is not particularly surprising, as experts had estimated that McColo was responsible for 75-percent of daily spam. While these figures will surely help spam victims to breathe easy, we wouldn't ...