He has been blamed for being behind "unprecedentedly serious attacks" on non-profit anti-spam watchdog Spamhaus.
The only real solution, most anti-spam advocates agree, is to remove spammers' financial incentive.
By deploying anti-spam measures at the server level most of the bad emails have been captured.
Some free email services like Gmail already come equipped with powerful anti-spam and virus filters.
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Already, more than half the states have passed anti-spam laws of one sort or another.
The House also has one anti-spam bill to consider, and another, harsher one was introduced this week.
On the network side IPS is analogous to anti-virus for email and DDoS defense is analogous to anti-spam.
But after anti-spam laws were passed and botnets were shut down, junk mail coming from these countries decreased.
The lawsuits are the first anti-spam cases AOL has launched since May 2001.
Microsoft is seeking millions in dollars in damages from OptInRealBig under anti-spam laws that impose penalties for every violation.
America has been slower, partly because marketers, many of whom are scared by anti-spam legislation, form a powerful lobby.
They have come up with new tricks to evade virtually every anti-spam measure.
Once identified it is simple to quickly update anti-spam solutions with a list of spam sources that are automatically blocked.
Leverage firewalls, virtual private networks, anti-virus and anti-spam software and secure mobile solutions to secure network access and mobile devices.
The anti-spam industry has had success attacking choke points in the past.
Following the introduction of America's anti-spam CAN-SPAM Act in January 2004, junk e-mailing fell briefly but then shot up again (see chart).
They tried to stop a couple of anti-spam software developers from using the term SPAM in their trademarks, but to no avail.
Before joining Symantec, Salem was president and CEO of Brightmail, the leading anti-spam software company that was successfully acquired by Symantec in 2004.
According to the files, an ongoing investigation targets a 23-year old Russian man named Oleg Nikolaenko, who is suspected of violating the anti-spam law.
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And EarthLink has already collected millions of dollars in anti-spam settlements.
Some 62% of all e-mails are unsolicited junk promising cheap university diplomas, penis enlargement and other delights, according to Brightmail, an anti-spam group (see chart).
What makes them harder to filter out, said Mr Marbach, was that the firms sending them would have tested them against anti-spam tools before they were sent out.
"The whole problem with these laws is that they are geared to spammers being honest and respecting laws, " said Steve Linford, founder of anti-spam organisation The Spamhaus Project.
Listed as the third biggest spammer in the world by junk mail watchdog Spamhaus, OptInRealBig was sued in December 2003 for sending mail messages that violated anti-spam laws.
Prosecutors said PW Marketing violated the 1998 anti-spam law because these unsolicited e-mails were sent without a free call number for recipients to phone to stop additional mailings.
The main reason behind the decrease in spam volume is the overall heightened level of anti-spam protection, says the Moscow based junk mail and cyber crime fighting Kaspersky Lab.
No 10 says there are anti-spam measures and people who want to sign a petition have to give an e-mail address and a UK address including postcode, or an overseas address.
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Various anti-spam programs use several techniques to spot and kill junk mail, but IBM believes the Chung-Kwei algorithm to be the only anti-spam tool that uses pattern discovery in this way.
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