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The world's largest provider of Internet access, America Online, a subsidiary of Time Warner, said Monday that junk e-mail, known as' spam ', fell more than 75 percent this year, based on its internal member reports.
spam came to represent 83 percent of computer traffic at one point this year and has cost Internet providers about $ 500 million (about 360 million euros) in wasted bandwidth, analysts have said. By November 2008, AOL received an average of 2.2 million complaints daily from more than 24 million subscribers, down from 11 million complaints in the same period last year. The average daily emails blocked by AOL's spam filters fell 50 percent to around 1,200
million e-mails in late 2008 from a peak of 2,400 million.
Attempts by those who send unwanted e-mails also dropped to approximately 1,600 million per day, 2,100 million last year.
AOL launched a new version of its software, AOL 9.0 Security Edition in November, including a free version of McAfee VirusScan Online software and improved anti-spam tools.
The company is also part of a coalition of the technology industry comprised of Microsoft, EarthLink and Yahoo Inc., which has vigorously fought the case with trading e-mails, which are hidden through false addresses
June 10th, 2009