{"id":595,"date":"2008-12-17T12:31:17","date_gmt":"2008-12-17T19:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.intego.com\/?p=595"},"modified":"2012-11-14T17:35:53","modified_gmt":"2012-11-15T00:35:53","slug":"90-of-e-mail-is-spam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/90-of-e-mail-is-spam\/","title":{"rendered":"90% of E-Mail is Spam!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Register presents figures from a Cisco report<\/a> that say that 90% of all e-mails sent are spam. More than 200 billion spam e-mails are sent each day, says Cisco, clogging up the Internet and making your life miserable.<\/p>\n

Interestingly, the US is the largest source of spam, with more than 17% of spam coming from that country, though this might be explained by botnets, networks of computers that have been taken over by malware and are controlled by spammers. <\/p>\n

Cisco has a (rather boring) video on YouTube presenting their findings<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Naturally, you want to prevent spam from taking up your time, as much as possible. To keep your spam under control, you should use Intego Personal Antispam, the intelligent antispam program<\/a> which learns from your spam and your valid e-mail to provide the best spam filtering for Mac.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Register presents figures from a Cisco report that say that 90% of all e-mails sent are spam. More than 200 billion spam e-mails are sent each day, says Cisco, clogging up the Internet and making your life miserable. Interestingly, the US is the largest source of spam, with more than 17% of spam coming […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n