Original scientific paper

Amount of spam in global free e mail services - simulation

Krešimir Šolić ; J. J. Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Biophysics, Medical Statistics and Medical Informatics, Josipa Huttlera 4, HR-31000 Osijek, Croatia
Vesna Ilakovac orcid.org/0000-0002-2560-8800 ; J. J. Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Biophysics, Medical Statistics and Medical Informatics, Josipa Huttlera 4, HR-31000 Osijek, Croatia
Dario Galić ; J. J. Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Biophysics, Medical Statistics and Medical Informatics, Josipa Huttlera 4, HR-31000 Osijek, Croatia

Abstract

Usage of global free e mail services instead of institutional or company’s e mail addresses can more often cause security drawbacks. Regarding their weaknesses it can be assumed that there will be more unwanted e mails when using those addresses. In order to receive unwanted e mail and compare the amount that user receives at different e mail addresses the authors simulated part of e mail usage, the one when user registers on different Internet services. Results have shown that the users of the global free e mail services on average receive significantly more unwanted e mail compared to the users that use institutional or company’s e-mail address. There was also significant difference found among free global e mail services. Simulation has also shown increasing trend in amount of unwanted e mail received per month. Regarding these results and previous studies the authors’ advice is to prefer institutional or company’s e mail address over free global e mail services for Internet communication, especially when it is used for professional e mail communication.

Keywords

e-mail; free e-mail services; security; spam; unwanted mail

Hrčak ID:

100252

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/100252

Publication date:

15.4.2013.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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