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The District of Columbia has introduced legislation to cut down on the proliferation of spam. Spam has risen by 40 percent in the last three months and now averages nearly 90 per cent of all email received. A New Yorker has been arrested and charged with sending spam over instant messaging platforms (known as spim). After receiving "numerous complaints" about spam, the Spring Independent School District has cut spam volumes by half after rolling out an appliance-based solution. Barracuda's Spam Firewall is a 1U appliance running Linux and offering SMTP services with a good selection of mail filters to keep the junk mail out.< Prince William County Schools (PWCS), the third largest school system in Virginia, has deployed an appliance-based system to protect more than 7,500 teacher and administrative mailboxes across the county from spam and viruses. In the past year, spam has become mostly offers of cheap Viagra and low-interest loans, indicating an increase in criminal online activity, according to the latest spam index by Clearswift. Spam has gone from virtually nothing four years ago to a major problem today. It is now estimated that spam accounts for about 60 per cent of all email carried over the internet, up from 45 per cent this time last year. IBM scientists have used a mix of DNA analysis techniques and Feng-Shui to combat the growing tide of spam. With both the US CAN-Spam Act and the EU Directive on spam proving to be failures in stemming the flow of unsolicited emails, attention has turned once again to technology and standards in the battle against spam. Fuelled by a plague of viruses and spam, security software spending rose by over a quarter to $52.59 million in the Gulf States in 2003 and is expected to rise 27 per cent during 2004, recent analysis of the Middle Eastern security market has revealed. Global spam volume peaked at a record-breaking 90 per cent in August 2004, topping the year’s previous high of 85 per cent set in June, a recent analysis of over 3 billion email messages has revealed. The amount of pornographic spam shot up by nearly 350 percent between June and July, according to the most recent spam statistics released by content security supplier Clearswift. With over 65 per cent of all e-mail traffic circulating on the internet today being spam, there must be reasons why people choose this particular career path and risk arrest as well as being labeled as a spammer. Danish telecommunications company TDC has successfully completed deployment of a security system at its network edge designed to protect subscribers from spam, viruses and other malicious attacks. MP Derek Wyatt is chairman of the All Party Internet Group. He is currently working on an overhaul of the Computer Misuse Act 1990 and is trying to stamp out spam. Brave ambitions, but how likely is it? We sent Dan Ilett to find out. The problem of spam hardly needs an introduction. It is a time-waster for recipients. It has its sinister side in the form of V-spam and phishing. And it consumes infrastructure resources -- especially bandwidth. The only real solution available today is blocking: either at the recipients' premises or, sometimes, at the recipients' ISP. But this feels very much like locking the stable door after the horse has bolted and there must be a better alternative. Members of the United Nations are in talks over the worldwide spam epidemic. Earlier this year, the Australian division of the Coalition Against Unsolicited Bulk Email (CAUBE) revealed that the volume of spam in 2001 increased six-fold over that for 2000. This month we are tackling the issue of junk mail and spam. While unsolicited advertising is annoying, it has become the CSO’s problem as HR departments face off with users who receive offensive messages, business services grind to a halt, and outright scams grow in number.