After a brief lull, spam is back. Microsoft reports that over 97 percent of e-mails are spam, including unsolicited advertising, malicious attachments and links to phising sites.

A U.S. web hosting company allegedly responsible for 75 percent of junk e-mail around the world has been shut down by a Washington Post blogger. (via Slashdot)

A team of Internet spammers has been fined $230 million for sending an estimated 700,000 spam messages to MySpace users.

Nine out of every ten e-mail messages sent over the Internet are spam.

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