Enterprise Information Technology Services Press Release
The University of Georgia
Athens, Georgia

Wednesday, November 21, 2007

WRITER: Bert DeSimone, 706/338-9849, bert@uga.edu
CONTACT: EITS Help Desk, 706/542-3106, helpdesk@uga.edu

Spam increase on the rise during holidays

ATHENS, Ga.— The holiday season brings with it many joys and pleasures. Unfortunately, it often signals the spammers to increase their efforts in trying to get their advertisements into your inbox.

"Not only is there an increase in spam because of the holiday season," said Nate Childers, an EITS consultant, "but spammers continue to create 'smarter' spam."

Childers went on to say that with each measure EITS takes to counteract spam, the spammers find ways to counteract those measures.

"We continue to work with our email vendor to implement spam detection techniques that will effectively identify and eliminate spam making its way to user inboxes."

The Web site for UGAMail, the University's email system, contains a section on spam and junk mail. For more information, please see:

http://ugamail.uga.edu

About the Office of the CIO and EITS
The Office of the Chief Information Officer and Enterprise Information Technology Services (EITS) are committed to the mission of UGA as a land-and-sea-grant institution where academics come first and the research extensive university community encourages research efforts at the undergraduate and graduate levels. To that end, under the direction of the University´s Chief Information Officer, EITS endeavors to provide a robust, reliable, and secure information technology infrastructure, maintain essential production services, and offer world-class support.