spam:Gov't (U.S.): Governments must act together to curb spam: OECD
Governments must act together to curb spam: OECD
Only coordinated action by governments can curb the alarming rise in unsolicited bulk e-mails, or spam, a high-level seminar in Brussels was told.
The two-day meeting, organised by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the European Commission, was being held after the Mydoom e-mail worm infected more than one million computers around the world.
Mydoom underlined the vulnerability of computer systems to the ease with which malicious users can bring havoc through sending spam -- a problem that Microsoft chief Bill Gates (news - web sites) has promised to eradicate within two years.
But OECD deputy secretary-general Herwig Schloegl said governments had to act themselves before spam -- which some estimates say now accounts for half of all e-mails -- gets completely out of hand.
"We need a coordinated international drive to maintain consumer and business confidence in the Internet," he said at the opening session of the Brussels seminar on Monday.
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