A new method of curbing spam may be of interest to companies with corporate mobile contracts and voice over internet protocol (VoIP) systems, it has been claimed.
The latest development in anti-spam technology involves detecting and blocking botnets that generate the traffic, explains John E Dunn on Techworld.
New technology is able to distinguish between IP addresses that are legitimate servers and infected PCs, with traffic then blocked from the latter.
And because this system works at protocol level, new business telecoms applications such as web chat, VoIP and corporate mobiles can also be protected.
Tony dellaBusa from Engate explained that when a new IP address is compromised, it can immediately be detected and stopped pre-emptively before it transmits spam.
A recent experiment organised by McAfee, entitled Super Spam Me, saw 50 people from all over the world surf the internet unprotected for a month.
It emerged that Brits are among the most vulnerable as spam targets.
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