To put that in perspective: Someone who receives, say, 50 legitimate e-mail messages in a day, can count on receiving another 450 that aren’t. Or as most of us receive lots more than that, what can we expect… the ability to even find legitimate emails?

IT managers are saying spam traffic has increased 280 percent in the past five months, thanks to a new Asian botnet that is “spewing spam at an alarming rate.� Anti-spammers, like the spammers themselves, are creative — and many threatening approaches have been turned back by smart defenses. Unfortunately, a new attack seems to materialize just as quickly as an old one is foiled.

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