Pulled plug leaves spam gang out in the cold

THE CLOSURE of just one web hosting company which is believed to have knowingly harboured gangs of spammers, has lead to a massive drop in the frequency of unwanted emails.

An investigation lead by The Washington Post resulted two ISPs, Global Crossing and Hurricane Electric, booting a company called McColo off of its servers on November 11th.

Since then, one anti-spam company, Ironport, is reporting reductions of up to 70 per cent in spam traffic according to the BBC.

Before you start celebrating, however, remember that there are millions of hosting companies out there, and it won't be long before the slimy gits worm their way onto another server in another town. µ