According to a “Spam Personality” survey conducted in May by Reflexion Network Solutions, a typical employee spends up to an hour per day deleting spam e-mails. This translates into about 12.5% of lost work time for someone who works 1,824 hours per year.
The survey also found that false positives (or legitimate e-mails that are mistakenly filtered as spam) can result in the loss of a job, damaged relationships, and missed flights, among other mishaps.
Participants indicated that they receive between 50 and 200 e-mails everyday. Twenty percent of these e-mail users said that 50 to 74% of all the e-mail they receive is spam.
Only one in every 141 e-mails is infected with a virus. This is a huge improvement from last May’s one in every 38 e-mails. Reflexion indicated that this was due to the fact that “hackers have turned from mass-mailing attacks to targeted Trojan horses.”
Popular hoaxes and chain letters received in e-mail inboxes included the “Olympic torch,” “Hotmail hoax,” “Justice for Jamie,” “Bonsai kitten,” and “Budweiser frogs screensaver,” among others.
Reflexion Network Solutions is a service provider for anti-spam solutions based in Woburn, Massachusetts.
Sources:
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