You may have noticed in your inbox that spam is spreading like kudzu. A new report from Commtech, based on automated analysis of billions of e-mail messages, suggests that 95% of all e-mail is spam. Your mileage may vary, of course, depending on how much real e-mail you get. For example, people who are on lots of mailing lists may get lots of real e-mail, lowering the percentage of spam. But for most users, the scourge of spam is never-ending.
It’s interesting to note the types of spam that are on the rise or waning: image spam is down, as is PDF spam (that is, messages that contain images or PDFs rather than text), and phishing attempts represent 8% of all spam. New types of spam are coming, and old ones are leaving, thanks to vigilant effort from antispam software.
If you want to reduce the amount of spam that fills your inbox, Intego Personal Antispam is the way to go. Its powerful filters sort spam from real e-mail, putting the former in a Spam folder, leaving your inbox almost spam-free. The program also learns over time, as you teach it which messages are spam and which are valid, so your spam protection improves as spammers come up with new methods.
