Companies spend billions of dollars per year to fight spam. Billion more with the loss of productivity, with the acquisition of additional equipment, software and man-hours by filtering unwanted spam, and solve problems directly related to spam. Direct effects of spam are the consumption of network and computer resources, data and intellectual property theft, identity theft, infection of viruses and malware infections and much more.
When most people think of spam, they think of unsolicited e-mails in their inboxes meeting that the time to clean up. However, there are many more different types of spam, instant messaging spam, spam, chat, newsgroup and forum spam, including mobile spam, and guestbook spam blogs, video sharing, spam, spam, video games, E-mail bombing, and non - commercial spam. E-mail and Internet spam is frustrating and sometimes painful, if pornography is for Grandma.
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