Spam Slams Internet at Record Levels

An explosion of spam has security Relevant Products/Services vendors salivating over potential sales of filtering products this coming year, with levels of the insidious mail clogging inboxes expected to grow at unprecedented levels.

In the closing months of 2006, the volume of spam jumped enormously, according to e-mail filtering firm Postini, with an increase of 73 percent in just the three months leading up to December.

Spam now represents nearly 93 percent of all e-mail throughout the world — the highest level ever recorded by Postini — further driving the need for businesses to find solutions.

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