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Updated: Saturday, September 6, 2008 at 8:59pm

ITS sees increase in spam e-mails

Department works to filter out growing number of spam e-mails sent by “zombie computers”

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Published Friday, October 5, 2007
According to spam experts, zombie computers are the latest wave of terror plaguing e-mail users at Yale. The number of spam e-mails that Yale Information Technology Services filters out of Webmail each month has risen dramatically since the beginning of the summer, quadrupling to nearly 100 million e-mails a month. Between May and August, spam e-mails as a percentage of total e-mail has gone up from 65 to 87.4 percent.
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