After years of tolerating the annoyance of spam, companies and ISPs are starting to take the problem of unsolicited email seriously. Spam email currently accounts for 36 per cent of the world's email traffic - the bandwidth, cost and productivity...
He added: "From the employees' point of view it is about productivity and the sheer annoyance of dealing with all these emails. Among the more than 2,800 respondents to the survey snapshot a massive 71 per cent said they believe viruses pose the...
Opponents may argue that this is a victimless crime - an annoyance rather than a violation of the individual or the company, but that argument doesn't really hold sway these days. With spam accounting for more than 50 per cent of all email traffic...
Users who remain uninfected by computer viruses still often see a huge increase in email traffic as they are inundated with notifications resulting from spoofed email addresses in the 'from:' field that wrongly tell them they've sent a virus when...
But if the rising tide of unsolicited marketing and viruses continue to impact the PC-based IM, they may regret being so open. A similar threat exists with viruses. Spim and viruses conveyed by IMs are not as threatening as those carried by email.
Previously, spam not only hogged network bandwidth and caused an annoyance - after becoming infected by botnets, some BT customers were identified as known sources of spam and thus ended up on industry-wide blacklists.
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