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According to a recent Ferris Research survey, 67% of corporate email administrators say the increasing volume of Spam is overwhelming them. This unwanted and unsolicited bulk email consists of advertising, e-newsletters, pornography, chain letters and more and often contains viruses or malicious code. The cost to businesses is astronomical and has been doubling each year. Ferris estimates that Spam unnecessarily cost US corporations $8.9 billion in 2002, and Gartner concludes that the monthly per-user Spam cost is a whopping $108. The new federal anti-spam law recognizes the problem, but nobody expects it to solve the crisis.
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Current Spam, Virus and Phishing Statistics
The following graph represents real-time statistics from the Netriplex global network.
It indicates current percentages of all email traffic that consists of viruses,
spam and phishing attacks.
Not entirely sure what spam really is? Here is a definition of spam from our friends at TechTarget
Spam is unsolicited e-mail on the Internet. (E-mail that is wanted is sometimes referred to as ham.) From the sender's point-of-view, spam is a form of bulk mail, often sent to a list obtained from a spambot or to a list obtained by companies that specialize in creating e-mail distribution lists. To the receiver, it usually seems like junk e-mail.
Spam is roughly equivalent to unsolicited telephone marketing calls except that the user pays for part of the message since everyone shares the cost of maintaining the Internet. Spammers typically send a piece of e-mail to a distribution list in the millions, expecting that only a tiny number of readers will respond to their offer. It has become a major problem for all Internet users.
The term spam is said to derive from a famous Monty Python sketch ("Well, we have Spam, tomato & Spam, egg & Spam, Egg, bacon & Spam...") that was current when spam first began arriving on the Internet. SPAM is a trademarked Hormel meat product that was well-known in the U.S. Armed Forces during World War II.
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