42000 spams in your mailbox this year

Security provider Webroot has today published its State of Internet Security: Protecting Business Email research report and estimates that every single business email account will receive some 42,000 spams during the course of 2008. Or 116 junk messages every single day if you prefer. That is an increase of some 60 percent since 2004 according to Webroot, despite the investment made in spam filtering technology. It would seem that spammers are taking the lead when it comes to developing methodologies to beat the filters therefore.