ZD Net had this info on one if its blogs…74% of all email is now spam. Wow – there is lots of goo out there.

Here at Terrapin Networks, our email domain – terrapinIT.com – shows incoming email at about 93% spam. And we’re not unusual – we have customers who show spam at more than 98% of their incoming email. Makes some kind of spam filter pretty darn important.

I have copied the story below, or go here for the link. It is on Alex Moskalyuk’s “IT Facts” blog.

Alex Moskalyuk

74% of all e-mail in Q2 2008 was spam

In Q2 2008, 74% of all mail received was spam. In Q2 2008, Turkey became the country with most zombie computers (11% of the global total), followed by Brazil (8.4%) and Russia (7.4%). The USA, which in the Q1 2008 accounted for 5% of all zombies, is now in ninth place with just 4.3% of the total. Google Adwords has been at the center of one of the most notable attacks over the last quarter, PandaLabs says. This Google service had been used previously to launch phishing attacks and the trend continues. This type of attack uses social engineering to trick users into revealing confidential details (bank account numbers, passwords, etc.).