McAfee: Spam hides in cyberspace

Security firm McAfee conducted a test to find out what it already knew; spam is everywhere, and it can come your way with the flick of a mouse. The company, in an experiment, gathered volunteers from around the world  to spend one hour a day surfing the Internet, signing up for various newsletters, filling in various forms and writing blogs about their experiences. The results of the Spammed Persistently All Month (S.P.A.M.) experiment: Over the one-month period, McAfee's test subjects accumulated 104,000 spam messages, or roughly 70 per day per recipient. The United States received  the most spam, followed by Brazil and Italy. Nigerian scam emails were popular, but more so in the United Kingdom than in the United States.

For more on this chronic problem:
- see this news.cnet.com article