97% of email is spam, says Microsoft

Spam and phishing attacks make up 97% of the email that is sent, according to an information security report from Microsoft. The figure is a three percent rise on the previous year.Microsoft said that 97% of the email sent around the world was blocked as being spam, phishing attacks or carriers of malicious software in the second half of 2008. In the same period of 2007 94% of email was blocked on that basis, its report from the previous year said."More than 97 percent...