[IDG] The U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s recent takedown of an Internet service provider thought to be a safe haven for spammers has reduced spam volumes, but only by a little.According to e-mail security vendor Marshal8e6, total spam volume dropped by about 15 percent last week, as the FTC got a court order to pull the plug on a notorious ISP named Pricewert. “We noticed quite a drop-off mid to late last week,” said Phil Hay, a threat analyst with Marshal8e6. “Things got pretty quiet compared to what we’d been seeing.”
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