E-mail security firm IronPort is claiming that 98% of all e-mails are now spam, which is yet another different figure being claimed by yet another vendor. Their 2008 Internet Security Trends Report claims that 120bn spam e-mails are sent daily worldwide, with 20bn of these targeting UK mailboxes. If those numbers are even half true, it does show how effective ISPs in this country have become at filtering out the menace of spam. The company offers suggestions on how to best combat spam as an en

