Where's all the spam gone?

[our_man]

I used to get roughly 20-30 junk e-mails per day in hotmail until last week. 3-4 offers every day of where I could download the Paris Hilton video. Then, all of a sudden it stopped.

My junk e-mail box is now getting on average one junk-email a day. That's it. I don't want to jump to any conclusions yet but I'm considering removing my spam filter for the first time in two years.

Has anyone else experienced the same massive fall-off in spam. If so, what's behind it? Not that I'm complaining.

[Ecthy]

I still get tens a day.

[Snotty]

Yes! I've seen exactly the same thing. This morning I left with one spam in my inbox. When I came home it was still sat there all alone. Its barely worth clicking to delete them these days

[Winston]

I have been wondering the exact same thing. Over the past week or so, the amount of junk mail I receive has dwindled to almost nothing. I read they arrested a man in the US about a week ago for spamming mailboxes on a very large scale, I remember some "experts" estimating he was behind as much as 1 in 8 junk mails worldwide. I think there's a connection, they may finally have gotten to the root of the problem, at the very least the other large scale spammers are probably laying low for the time being.

[Agathon]

Yeah, weird isn't it. Only one or so a day actually makes it to my inbox (I've got a Bayesian spam filter), but the junk folder is empty.

How bizarre...

[Patroklos]

I don't get email spam anymore, just litteraly hundreds of add popups per day from programs hidden in things I download, who then hide themselves on my hard drive. That has to be illegal.

-Pat

[SlowwHand]

I've severely curtailed what I'll download.

[Q Classic]

pat:

security.kolla.de

https://www.lavasoft.com

download both programs (spybot s&d, adaware) to kill those off.

unless you like adware, for some reason.

[Asmodean]

I would like to be able to say the same, but today, I have received 62 e-mails. 43 of them were spam.

Asmodean

[Dis]

I can give you some more spam if you want

[Az]

Here's your spam:

http://apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=104310&perpage=50&pagenumber=1

[self biased]

i know... my spam was the only thing that didn't make me feel like aloser.

[chequita guevara]

Azazel, that's what I was gonna put.

[Az]

Sensei, while your ki is still strong, your reflexes are far from being at their peak.

[Shogun Gunner]

Yes, the only spam I'm still getting is from my family...