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Microsoft: 3% of email is stuff we want the rest is spam
Closed Published April 11th, 2009 in Browser Security, Spam, email
Spam makes up close to 100 percent of all e-mail traffic on the Internet, according to Microsoft. In a new security report, Microsoft said that 97 percent of e-mails sent were destined for the junk folder, though most never made it to their destinations thanks to server-side filtering.
As usual, the latest waves of spam are rife with advertisements for pharmaceutical products (48.6 percent of the total). Microsoft noted that a larger percentage of spam was blocked by its own Exchange Hosted Filtering (EHF) services in the second half of 2008 for most categories, with some 40 percent of "non-sexual" pharmacy spam being blocked.Microsoft: 3% of e-mail is stuff we want; the rest is spam – Ars Technica
