SPAM MAY NOW BE 90-95 PERCENT OF ALL EMAIL

Barracuda, an e-mail security company, analyzed over one billion messages sent to its 50,000 customers and repots that the percentage of spam increased to 90-95 percent, up from 85-90 percent in 2006, and “way up” from 5 percent back in 2001. Symantec estimates spam at only 71 percent, up from 56 percent in 2006. (From an article by Jacqui Cheng [Ars Technica, Malden, Massachusetts, USA]

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