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Spam now accounts for 90.4% of all e-mail, study finds

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Computing | by Samuel Axon | Wed May 27, 2009 9:16AM | 0 comments

It comes from a security vendor, so you know these folks want to scare you, but the latest study from Symantec found that 90.4% of all e-mails (or 1 out of every 1.1 e-mails, as CNet puts it) are junk mail. Thank goodness for spam filters, right? The study also reveals a few new insights regarding the strategies employed by cybercriminals.

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external link Report: Spam now 90 percent of all e-mail [CNET News.com]
external link 90 Percent of E-mail Is Spam, Symantec Says [PC World]
external link Techmeme: Report: Spam now 90 percent of all… [techmeme.com]
external link Spam, Wonderful… [technologizer.com]
external link Spam Level Rises To 90% | Maximum PC [maximumpc.com]

Latest Tweets about this story:

  • driven4lyrics - And the main reason Justin Bieber keep stayin on da TT is cause 90% of the posts are spam! @twitter, get it 2gether
  • noinput - i find it funny that i get 90% less spam on the weekends. apparently even those idiots take time off.
  • NileyBuzz - RT @JoeKissingDemi: grr...i might spam Selena again. Who's with me? Only 90 year old bitches would take me seriously. >.>
  • JoeKissingDemi - grr...i might spam Selena again. Who's with me? Only 90 year old bitches would take me seriously. >.>
  • dragonblogger - @rileycentral Yeah, I get about 1-2 false positives per day, Wp-SpamFree combined with Akismet though reduces spam by 90% over akismet alone
  • envescent - #Spam accounts for 90% of all #internet #email. #Botnets largely responsible and its hard to stop them all. - http://bit.ly/9vjp8m
  • LeanderRain - @DAZYnotDAISY (Everyone had a major RL picture spam earlier so yeah XDD 90% of us are asian girls XDDD!!)
  • Cute_NaiNai - RT @raeraemysterio: @Cute_NaiNai lol its not even eastenders type spam, at least we buss joke n its only 30 mins. this is 90 mins plus da break in half time ¬_¬
  • raeraemysterio - @Cute_NaiNai lol its not even eastenders type spam, at least we buss joke n its only 30 mins. this is 90 mins plus da break in half time ¬_¬
  • EskyFromOz - RT @xQmail: Stats 21/3/2010: Of all the e-mail we process 90,78% is Spam. Read more: http://bit.ly/bubbcS

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