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Süddeutsche Zeitung Department: Computer
13/11/2008 12:12 clock

spam from USA
strike against garbage

If you like power pills ordered on the Internet , has to cope with a dwindling supply at present. Internet providers have shut down one of the biggest spammers.
By Mirjam Hauck

Still, scientists are divided on whether spam is a lucrative business indeed: Do the senders of unsolicited commercial e-mails more revenue than the global Drug Mafia?

afflicted users whose e-mail box overflows each day, this information does not really help. This proved to be mostly a functioning spam filters - or the rigorous crackdown by Internet providers.

As the Washington Post reports, have cut two American Internet providers on Tuesday the California Hoster McColo the lines and it thus taken from the network. then sank to the newspaper, the global spam volumes on the same evening by 66 percent.

million infected PCs

According to the findings of the IT security experts is a so-called Bullet Proof McColo Hoster. The company had therefore via so-called botnet master server. This can be controlled million infected PCs to spread spam for counterfeit drugs and designer goods. According to experts McColo was previously responsible for 75 percent of global spam volume.

The question is whether this decline will be permanent. The spammers will find, sooner or later, probably a new company for their illegal activities - be it in America, Russia or China. For these countries are the most spam attacks.

flow per day about 160 billion illegal e-mails through the Internet. Although overcome only about five percent of the spam filter e-mail provider. In fact, only one is clicked 10,000. to 100 000 E-mail.

Those users who have actually on the offers for fake pills make bait and clicked on that website now, one to three percent of the products also. An illegal online pharmaceutical shipper according to expert estimates generated by this practice about 150 million dollars in sales per year.

of the downed hosting, however, was not only specialize in spam. As the Washington Post further reported, were up to 40 websites with child pornography on the servers of McColo. They registered 15000-25000 visitors each day.

Even with a hacker attack in the Trojans by more than half a million bank- and credit card information was stolen, servers were involved in the company.

Whether the U.S. police authorities to determine McColo is, according to the Washington Post is still unclear. Neither the FBI nor the Secret Service gave an opinion as to this case. Under U.S. law, may web hosts within their network for illegal activities is not liable - except for copyright infringement and child pornography.

(sueddeutsche.de / bön)

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Süddeutsche Zeitung, 11.11.2008

The Missing Years

divorce, smoking, place of residence: What are the risks life as strongly reduce

The starting point is an almost trivial and assured by many studies finding: The life expectancy of men and women of middle age is highest when they drink little alcohol, no smoking, married, feel healthy, high school and have done a job as employees. Now the Demographers Anne Kruse, Elena Muth and Gabriele Dobler tried out to reduce the risks the lives, how much. The result stunned at least in the dimensions: A 50-year-old smoker has a lower life expectancy by 18 years as a man does with regard to his health it right.

The topics of the question Study, which has now published a short version (Demographic research first-hand, 3 / 2008) was: What are living conditions, disease characteristics or behavior cost how many years of life? The researchers used mortality data from official statistics and the Socio-Economic Panel to calculate this. They defined a 50-year-old "Superman" and a 50-year-old "Super Woman", which cut through behavior, biography and health in the life expectancy statistics best. These other people were compared to their careers are influenced by various risks.

Medical risk factors therefore contribute more than social. Thus men who, with their Health are dissatisfied, lower by 19 years of life expectancy than the "Superman". Apparently suffering from those who judge themselves not as healthy, actually often serious diseases. In women, the figure nearly 18 years is similar. Similar rate increases, the number of years of life in people who suffer at the age of 50 years of age diabetes, smoking heavily or drink much alcohol (see chart).

comparison, is the impact of social influences weakened. Shortens the life of unemployment by 14 years. A divorce reduces the life expectancy compared with the ideal types for almost ten years, similar to a lower degree.

differences between men and women show only a few factors. For example, the life expectancy of women living alone less a few years, in men does not occur on this effect. Also infertility (which is not in men in the statistics recorded in full) acts in women statistically live easy shortening. "This can happen with women in the absence of social contacts, but also biological factors are," says co-author Elena Muth, who works at Rostock's center for demographic change.

The individual, surprisingly high level of risk may however not lead to an addition - for example in the sense that the life expectancy of an unemployed, divorced smoker for 14 plus nine reduced plus 18 years. "Risk factors often cause each other, so the overall effect is smaller than the individual effects," says Elena Muth.

FELIX BERTH