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Brightmail IQ Services
Brightmail IQ Services
Leverages Symantec’s Brightmail Operations to present comprehensive worldwide spam data.
Sender IP Lookup
Search for current reputation data for up to 100 IP addresses, separated by commas.
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Spam Volume
Up-to-date global spam and overall email volumes for the past 365 days. Global values are determined based on the statistically representative sample provided by Symantec’s Brightmail operations.
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Total MessagesSpam
Spam Content Types
Symantec’s Brightmail operations monitors and categorizes spam coming into the probe network 24/7/365, providing Symantec with an up to date view of the spam landscape. Click on a specific date in the Spam Volume chart to view the Content Type data for that day.
Spam Categories
Brightmail technicians monitor and categorize spam coming into the probe network 24/7/365, providing Symantec with an up to date view of the spam landscape Each category of spam is presented here as a percentage of total spam. Click on a specific date in the Spam Volume chart to view category data for that day.

Spam Blogs Archived Posts

Fake Survey Seeking Opinions on Social Networking Features

Samir Patil @ Fri, 27 Aug 2010 13:40:47
Symantec has observed a new spam tactic being used in which fake surveys are seeking users'  Read More

The Language Spammers: Spam Trick Innovators

Vivian Ho @ Tue, 24 Aug 2010 12:59:45
Language spammers are quick to adapt all English spam tricks. We often see them apply various  Read More

Targeted Scam Threatening DDOS Attacks

Samir Patil @ Tue, 17 Aug 2010 16:42:06
In a typical 419 scam message, we usually see lottery winning notifications, mentions of next  Read More

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