Spam swings from Viagra to Versace

Spam is annoying, resource consuming, malware driven and often offensive. It is also nothing if not responsive to market needs. This can be seen in the market driven swing from pharmaceutical and health related spam which has pretty much dominated the landscape during the last couple of years, to the product based stuff that pushes replica designer clothing and Rolex watches for example. New data released by email filtering specialists at the Marshall TRACE security team suggests that the two year long reign of health-related spam is over, and considering that this accounted for 75 percent of all spam in circulation during that period according to the Marshall statistics, it is quite some news.