
A survey released on Friday shows that while emails pushing porn are down, overall <A HREF="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2011334,00.asp?kc=EWWKNEMNL090106EOAD">spam emails are growing significantly.</A> The survey was conducted by Ipswitch, a vendor of SMB security software. It found that 70 percent of all email received is spam, compared to 62 percent the previous quarter, and just 57 percent last Christmas. In spring 2005, however, the number of spam emails topped 80 percent, the company found. The survey ranked the most prevalent forms of spam and found the most pertained to medication, at 36 percent. More significantly, financial/phishing spam entered the list at 19 percent of all emails received.