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NEW YORK (AP) - A common spamming technique of sending unwanted e-mail pitches as image attachments rather than text is on the decline, as spammers continue adapting their methods for sneaking past e-mail filters.
This week, security company McAfee Inc. revised its top 10 predictions for the year to account for the reversal. Another company, IronPort Systems Inc., said image spam now accounts for about 20 percent of all spam, down from 33 percent two months ago.
"It's been two years since image spam has burst onto the scene. Anti-spam technologies are starting to react to that," said David Mayer, a product manager at IronPort. "We've seen other techniques and technologies rise up to make up" for the decline.
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