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Spammers defy Gates's junk mail predictions

Submitted by Crow74

Jan 24, 2009

Summary

A security expert at Sophos has reminded former Microsoft chairman Bill Gates that his predictions about the end of spam have failed spectacularly.

Gates declared in 2004 at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland that spam would be "a thing of the past" within five years.

However, Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos, wrote in a blog post that "with the prophecy's five-year anniversary approaching, spam continues to cause a headache for companies and home users".

Spam is in fact worse than ever, according to the security expert, and has become more sophisticated, more malicious and a greater threat to the security of nearly every PC user in the world. Read the full article

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