The volume of junk e-mail sent worldwide dropped drastically today after a Web hosting firm identified by the computer security community as a major host of organizations allegedy engaged in spam activity was taken offline, according to security firms that monitor spam distribution online. Immediately after two Internet providers cut off MoColo's connectivity to the Internet, security companies charted a precipitous drop in spam volumes worldwide.
E-mail security firm IronPort said spam levels fell by roughly 66% as of Tuesday evening, and Spamcop.net, another spam watch dog, found a similar decline, from approximatley 40 spam e-mails per second to 10 per second.
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And let us all say, Amen.
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