GOOGLE PICKS UP THIRD SPOT IN SPAM-FRIENDLY SHAME LIST

Posted January 6, 2009 

Blogspot exploits and Gmail scams slammed

Google has leapfrogged Microsoft to reach third place in a blacklist of spam-friendly ISPs, compiled by anti-spam organisation Spamhaus.org

Microsoft, which cropped up at fifth place on the November edition of the same list, has cleaned up its act to the extent that it no longer appears in the rogues’ gallery of the ten ISPs that are slackest in dealing with junk mail problems. Previously Microsoft’s live.com and livefilestore.com web properties were soft targets for penis pill purveyors, advance fee fraudsters and other junk mail swine, but this has changed over the last month or so.

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