BigPond rejects six million spam e-mails a day
BigPond has moved to boost its anti-spam systems as the Internet service provider revealed its existing network filters were rejecting six million spam or virus-infected e-mails every day.
Managing director Justin Milne said in an e-mail to BigPond users last night he had given the go-ahead "to further boost" the filters as spam continued to be a "common problem" for Internet users.
A BigPond spokesperson said the upgrade would increase filtering capacity by a further 15 percent. Spam zombies would be targeted and additional content-based spam classifications implemented under the project.
Milne said all mail entering or leaving the BigPond network had been filtered since April last year.
