San Francisco, July 15, 2009 – Everyone asks, “who would be so reckless as to click on this junk?” but almost a third of consumers admitted to responding to a message they suspected might be spam, according to a survey released today by the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG). Also alarming, about 80 percent of users doubted their computers were at risk of ever being infected with a “bot,” which is a covertly planted virus capable of sending spam or causing other damage without the owner
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“Hey, Why Did You Reply to that Spam?”-Anti-Spam Group MAAWG Surveys Consumer Email Behavior and Security Awareness